Discipline : Design for Technology

Role Type : Visual Design

The opportunity

EY GDS Creative Center of Excellence (CoE) is an inhouse agency that helps EY teams build a better working world by delivering high-impact, high-quality and onbrand creative solutions. People in the CoE help create experiences that are not just creatively inspiring, but also strategically accurate and deeply human across multiple media platforms.

As a Supervising Associate Art Director, you own the creative and visual direction and design for creative collaterals across multiple formats, ensuring that all creatives are on-brand, user-centric and aesthetically proficient. With a passion for problem-solving and creative strategy, you lead creative brainstorms with stakeholders and content and digital marketing teams to produce best-in-class creatives that intrinsically align with the EY brand and business objectives. With your impeccable aesthetic sense and design sensibility, you are a versatile and reliable leader who can elevate any creative conceptualization, storyboard or creative direction for projects across multiple channels.

Your key responsibilities

- Provide creative leadership to the design teams to deliver a range of collaterals (i.e., brochures, placemats, illustration, layouts, infographics, on-screen presentations, proposals, microsites, motion graphic content and social media collaterals)
- Produce strategically sound conceptual work and bring it to life through rapid prototyping and storyboard creation and all the way through post-production
- Adhere to EY brand guidelines, meet, and exceed defined expectations in terms of aesthetics, quality, turnaround time, budget and efficiency
- Stay up-to-date with current and future designs, web standards,



concepts and industry trends and advocate the same to team members and customers
- Provide creative and art direction support to the team, coordinate with team members and others to resolve issues, as necessary
- Proactively identify opportunities to employ pop culture trends, creativity, executional approaches and techniques to create exceptional user experiences
- Communicate effectively with various customers/customer groups while understanding design briefs and sharing ideas
- Lead project discussions with customers with a customer-centric mindset
- Provide unique and innovative design solutions to customers and convince them to make the right design choices
- Mentor junior team members on best design practices
- Prioritize deadlines and effectively manage multiple creative projects parallelly
- Be a part and contribute towards various organizational initiatives

Skills and attributes for success

- A user-centric mindset with creative, innovative and analytical approach
- Working knowledge of creating infographics and data visualization techniques
- Exceptional project management, risk management and team management
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality output on time and within budget
- An innovative mindset that takes a client problem and delivers compelling and inspiring creative solutions
- Excellent communication (comprehension, verbal and written) and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and persuade




- Exceptional attention to detail
- Understanding of current and future visual trends

To qualify for the role, you must have

- Bachelors degree or college diploma (preferably in Graphic Design or related discipline) *
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign, Adobe DC and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
- Experience across a range of digital, social, and integrated media
- Knowledge of social platforms (Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest etc.)
- Strong visual design and creative thinking capability
- At least 10 years of overall experience in a fast-paced global environment (team management experience mandatory)

*Location specific qualification requirements may differ for Manila, Poland, and Argentina. Kindly consult with respective Talent SPOCs for specific information.

Ideally, youll also have

- Preferable knowledge of Adobe After effects, Premier Pro and motion graphics skills

Technologies and Tools

- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign, Adobe DC and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)

What we look for

- Strong business acumen along with creative vision
- Creative problem-solving mindset with a flexible can-do attitude
- A growth mindset creative who loves to collaborate, ideate and deliver breakthrough work
- Experience in leading and managing creative teams, as well as developing junior creative talent
- Self-starter who loves challenges and makes big things happen by working together
- Experience working with global clients
- Confidence, maturity and ability to build strong client relationships
- A strong team player who is comfortable working collaboratively with others

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