Graphic Design, Principal Analyst
- India
Posted yesterday
About the role
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Job Description
Key responsibilities include:
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy, sound judgment, ownership, and attention to detail, escalating only material risks or decisions.
- Lead multiple creative workstreams across time zones, maintaining priorities, schedules, dependencies, and documentation.
- Advise stakeholders, challenge unclear requests constructively, and recommend practical creative solutions aligned with business objectives and brand standards.
- Create and quality-check high-impact visual communications across graphic design, presentations, video, motion graphics, and responsible generative AI workflows.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Identify customer needs and create strong creative proposals.
- Ask insightful questions to stakeholders and interpret their requirements.
- Develop creative materials, including videos, graphic design assets, infographics, and slide designs for presentations.
- Efficiently manage and self-organize workload.
- Ability to collaborate with other team members effectively.
- Adhere to company brand guidelines.
- Simplify complex requests into business-focused creative proposals.
- Oversee multiple projects, managing timelines and customer relationships effectively across different time zones.
- Support other creative team members as needed by providing clear feedback, guidance, and direction.
- Ensure clear communication and provide consistent updates on the project.
- Ensure quality checks on deliverables.
- Record videos and photos for reports as needed.
- Utilize compliant AI tools for asset creation and revision.
- Keep project updates current in Jira.
DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS
Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition.
- Demonstrated expertise in visual storytelling, layout, typography, information design, presentation design, image editing, and production-ready file preparation.
- Strong end-to-end video and motion capability, including concepting, storyboarding, editing, audio treatment, transitions, animation, rendering, and delivery for multiple formats.
- Practical experience with Adobe Firefly or comparable enterprise-approved generative AI tools for prompt development, image generation, image editing, and creative exploration.
- Proficiency in a project management software, including creating and updating work items, managing boards and workflows, tracking dependencies, and maintaining accurate delivery status.
- Ability to structure information, analyze inputs, and produce clear project, workload, status, and performance reports using Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
- Working knowledge of brand governance, accessibility, digital asset organization, quality control, and responsible use of AI-generated content.
Decision-making and Autonomy
- Independently make day-to-day creative, production, prioritization, and workflow decisions within agreed scope, standards, and timelines.
- Proactively identify ambiguity, capacity constraints, quality concerns, and delivery risks; resolve them where possible and escalate early with options and recommendations.
- Balance stakeholder needs, brand governance, available resources, and delivery commitments using sound judgment and documented decisions.
Interaction
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders at different levels and across cultures, serving as a consultative partner rather than an order taker.
- Present concepts and recommendations confidently in English, listen actively, manage feedback, and align diverse contributors around clear decisions.
- Maintain transparent written communication, accurate updates, and concise status reporting across global time zones.
Innovation
- Stay updated on design, video, branding, and communication trends, and AI tools proper of the creative industry.
- Utilize compliant AI solutions for graphic design, image generation and video production.
Complexity
- Aware of cultural differences in a global environment.
- Efficiently manage multiple projects while learning from organizational initiatives and communication guidelines.
- Maintain strong customer relationships with clear expectations and follow-ups.
EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
Essential Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in graphic, visual, multimedia, or communication design, including substantial ownership of complex projects as a senior individual contributor.
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Multimedia, Communication Design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition, supported by a portfolio demonstrating graphic design, presentation design, video editing, and motion graphics.
- Required experience working in a creative agency, design studio, in-house creative studio, or comparable fast-paced, multi-client production environment.
- Hands-on a project management software; the candidate must be able to independently maintain work items, boards, priorities, timelines, dependencies, and status reporting.
- Excellent written and spoken English, with strong presentation, facilitation, proofreading, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to create clear executive presentations, structured reports, project updates, and communication materials across formats and channels.
- Proven stakeholder management and creative advisory skills, including brief development, expectation setting, feedback management, and presentation of recommendations.
- Highly self-driven and organized, with a consistent record of managing competing priorities, making sound decisions, and delivering quality work with limited supervision.
- Experience working effectively within global, cross-functional teams and across cultures and time zones.
- Practical experience using Adobe Firefly or comparable generative AI tools to create and refine photorealistic and conceptual imagery within responsible-use and brand requirements.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, consistency, accessibility, brand compliance, and production quality.
Desirable Skills
- Familiar with Agile Framework for Design like Jira.
- Able to use AI tools to create content and improve efficiency.
- Experience in business partnering and supporting internal stakeholders effectively.
- Ability to quickly learn new project systems and design applications.
- Open to new work methods that encourage adaptability.