Graphic Designer

Business Overview

Barrows is a commerce experience agency dedicated to building the world’s leading experiences for brands and retailers. We combine creativity, strategy, and technology to turn moments of shopper engagement into moments of conversion. From shopper marketing and category transformation to retail toolkits, display design, CX strategy, and store design, we deliver end-to-end solutions that don’t just meet expectations, they reset them.

Backed by the scale and innovation of VML and WPP, we bring clients access to the best tools, technology, and talent as a sustainable competitive advantage. What sets us apart is not just what we deliver, but how we deliver it: a global team united by a can do spirit, relentless curiosity, and the belief that remarkable commerce experiences can transform both brands and the people who shop them.

Role & Responsibilities

Barrows is seeking a dynamic Graphic Designer to support their expanding design team. This individual will be required to work alongside a larger creative team and interact across the board with clients, retail specialists and product designers. There is a need to understand the requirements and possibilities of design and apply a graphic skin of the various retail solutions that our product designers create.

They create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They develop the overall layout and production design for physical or digital point of sale retail design. Brainstorming and coming up with creative solutions for briefs and presenting your work professionally to your team and client (sell your work to your team first).

In addition to bringing a killer attitude and energy, this individual must be able to:

• Engagement in interactive design sessions and brainstorms
• Receive briefs and design direction from studio traffic system assisting in a smooth handover from the client service and strategy teams
• Conceptualization and design research. Assisting in generating exploratory mood boards by gathering literature and internet resources
• Assist in generating concepts and visualizing them by sketching and / or mock-ups
• CAD modeling and CAD visualizations
• Be creative, adaptable to trends and conceptualize original ideas
• Develop your concept in Adobe software (Photoshop, InDesign and illustrator)
• Present your work in a client ready presentation for the account teams
• Work through reverts efficiently to finalize designs
• Be able to setup design for production in Illustrator
• Work well with the product design teams to ensure your designs can be produced correctly
• Creative storyteller who brings simplicity and user centricity

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in Graphic Design
• A diploma or degree qualification in design
• Software literacy in Adobe Creative Suite and MS Office
• Brand experience
• Friendly and dynamic disposition
• Strategic thinker
• Creative mind providing excellent designs
• Ability to communicate with people
• A positive and respectful attitude
• Ability to work in the office 3 days a week

Benefits

The salary range for this role is $60,000-$80,000*

*exact compensation will be determined based on individual experience

Benefits include:

• Unlimited PTO
• Medical, Dental, Vision (with an option for free medical care!)
• 401K with a % match
• Various maternity/paternity leave options
• Fully funded disability and life insurance options
• Headspace subscription
• Wellness Stipend
• and more....