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Senior Graphic Designer

  • Are you an experienced  graphic designer?
  • Do you want to make a difference, helping clients who benefit humanity?
  • Do you want to make award-winning work while you’re at it?

C&G Partners is a multi-specialty creative studio, dedicated to design for culture. We focus on design and user experience, making sure that our creations are elegant, engaging, seamlessly integrated, and efficient. We do this by creating carefully tailored designs that follow industry standards and best practices, ensuring that our work is not just visually appealing, but also well-built, sustainable, and accessible.

We have an immediate opening for a senior-level graphic designer for interdisciplinary projects, including exhibits, experiences, branding, and interactive work. This position is ideal for an established designer with 5–10 years of solid experience working and leading design in a collaborative environment. The designer will be involved in meaningful and multifaceted projects, from concept creation, presenting and crafting those ideas while defending them visually and verbally, to implementing and maintaining oversight of the direction through the production process. We are looking for a designer who is curious, positive, passionate, and has new ideas to share.

Our studio is unique: we undertake projects that involve multiple kinds of in-house design specialists at the same time, from media designers, to architects, graphic designers, writers and more. Projects will always encompass more than one design discipline, and we welcome designers who are interested in working across fields.

Responsibilities

  • Leading our graphic design work, mentoring less-experienced designers
  • Pushing the boundaries of graphic design excellence for this client type
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, including directly with clients
  • Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
  • Positive attitude and takes criticism well
  • Self-motivated and independent thinker with strong communication skills
  • Organized and able to follow up on long and short-term projects
  • Flexibility to work independently and be a team player when necessary
  • Ability and willingness to adapt to rapidly changing priorities
  • Collaborate and coordinate work with team, including other graphic designers, 3D designers, content team, media team, and outside consultants
  • Liaise with exhibit fabricator, project architect, and client
  • Help plan project timelines
  • HTML, AfterEffects, 3D software like SketchUp are all a plus but are not required
  • Experience reading architectural drawings is a plus but we can teach you

Requirements

  • Excellent design skills
  • Excellent typography skills
  • Well-versed in working with imagery, color, and grids
  • 5–10 years of experience
  • Advanced skills in Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator)
  • A well-organized and detail-oriented, can-do attitude
  • Comfort working as part of a team and leading junior designers
  • Articulate and poised with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience working in exhibitions, media installations, signage and environmental graphics
  • Be able to communicate and collaborate with other creatives, architects, and fabricators, with experience in sending artwork for pre-production and production.
  • An understanding of physical design materials 
  • Our company is located in New York City, primarily because a significant portion of our work involves hands-on tasks such as examining materials and collaborating closely with our team. Therefore, we are specifically seeking candidates who are based locally to ensure seamless participation in these on-site activities. We are currently a hybrid workplace with optional in-office days.

Details and How to Apply:

Salary range: $75,000 – $90,000

The range above is a good-faith estimate based on the expectations as laid out in the job description. We are, however, often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the actual salary may vary from the estimates provided above.

Please provide a portfolio link, professional references, and samples of design documentation. Please send applications to srdes@cgpartnersllc.com with “Senior Graphic Designer” in the subject line. Email replies only please.

This is a full-time, salaried position with benefits. C&G Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.  

Note: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.