UpGrad jobs - Graphic Designer

Requirements:

- Design graphic content, illustrations, and infographics.
- Translate data, concepts, and frameworks into beautiful visual representations for blogs, Ebooks, whitepapers, and reports.
- Manage graphic designs from conception to delivery.
- Create, improve, and enforce design style guides.
- Review junior designer drafts to ensure quality.
- Generate fresh design concepts for the whole range of content assets.
- Ensure brand consistency throughout various marketing projects.
- Liaise between the marketing and design teams to ensure deadlines are met.
- Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on strong fundamental principles (i.e., color theory, visual weight, etc.) as well as your own design thinking.
- Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards
- Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industrys standards.
- Conceptualizing original ideas that bring a refreshing simplicity to designs.

Skills Required:

- Minimum 2-year experience as a Graphic Designer.
- Possess strong conceptual skills, high level sense of design, layout and typography, and be a broad thinker able to offer a variety of design solutions.
- Demonstrable creative design skills with a strong portfolio from a range of campaigns, reports, Ebooks, and whitepapers.
- Experience using tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
- Creative ideas with problem solving mindset.
- Experience working in an agile/scrum development process.
- Be open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon designs.
- A keen eye for visual details and aesthetic skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with team members.
- Strong creative, organizational, problem solving and time-management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big egos need not apply.
- Expert knowledge in graphic production process.
- Work well with tight deadlines in a team environment.
- Able to take projects from start to finish with minimal supervision.
- Adaptable and quick learner. Must be able to apply style guides creatively while upholding brand identity.