Junior designer job description

Publicis Groupe is looking for a talented Jr. Visual Designer to join our team! Working in close collaboration with a multi-disciplinary client delivery team, you will partner with a global brand to design assets across a variety of digital channels.
About you... and the job:

You live and breathe visual design and your true love exists at the intersection of logic and beauty. Design systems and interface designs are your jam but you don't limit yourself and want to dabble in all things design including web, mobile, ecomm, motion, illustration, and/or brand work.

While not a UX designer, you are comfortable partnering with UX teams and have a conceptual understanding of UX design principles and processes.

You possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and are comfortable working both independently and collaboratively... but you aren't afraid to ask questions or receive feedback.

You want to learn from and work closely with broad, cross-functional teams including visual, architectural, copy, and development components.

You understand the power of a logical, intuitive, intelligently-designed user experience that helps customers accomplish their tasks quickly and efficiently but also know how to integrate beautiful design and balance beauty with functionality.

You have a super creative mind but are also analytical and strategic in your approach to design. You have a natural curiosity and are an "ideas person" who loves to concept, experiment, innovate, and stay on the cutting edge of digital creative. You'd rather try something new and fail than stay safely in your lane.

You are passionate about the creative world and love to stay on top of the latest design trends, strategies, and technologies as well as how competitors within the industry are doing things.

You are flexible, nimble, and able to adjust to constantly shifting needs and priorities. Above all, you bring joy and passion to your work and to the team around you.

You have a great sense of aesthetic and a natural eye for design demonstrated by your strong portfolio showcasing client work, spec work, and mockups that feature beautiful, modern design across a variety of digital and traditional channels.

• Ability to navigate and deliver design deliverables from ideation through execution with support from design management
• Recently graduated or at their first jobs experiences in Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Set Design/Scenography and/or Graphic Design.
• Must have proficiency and competence in 3D visualization, visual and drafting skills: fluency in AutoCAD and Sketchup is preferred.
• Ability to sketch and draw by hand.
• Ability to manage, communicate, multitask with the team, within a challenging and fast paced environment: this role requires managing many different areas for several clients simultaneously; ability to handle stress under pressure.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Desire to push oneself to continually learn, expand skill base and industry knowledge

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Experience with drafting software Autodesk AutoCAD, Sketchup, Rhino, and Vectorworks
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suits (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience in onsite vendor management and understanding of construction process in the fashion industry and in the set design field.

ABOUT KCD:

KCD is a global leader in brand experience with offices in New York, Paris, Los Angeles and London. For more than 40 years, the agency has developed and applied its unparalleled fashion expertise while also servicing culture-driven industries across popular, luxury and community pillars.

KCD’s teams work with brands that span emerging to established, amplifying new buzz and maintaining legacy power alike. With customized creative strategies, comprehensive public relations campaigns and world-class event solutions, KCD’s precision-focused execution makes an impact across today’s most relevant channels.

Always at the frontier of innovation, KCD is dedicated to a continuum of experience: Catalyzing it, creating it, and ensuring that it lasts.

Min requirement: Intermediate Revit skills

1+ years of architecture/design experience

Degree in architecture preferred

IA Interior Architects translates client goals, brand and culture into powerful environments built around people, processes, technologies and business drivers. Our clients in diverse markets worldwide require high-performance, visually compelling and sustainable environments to move their enterprise forward, support their culture, engage their staff, integrate technology and drive efficiencies. As architects, designers, workplace strategists and environmental specialists in the largest global architecture firm concentrating exclusively on interiors, we help clients articulate and align their business strategies and core values with the dynamic use of space.

Our team members are collaborative, creative, professional, expert and entrepreneurial. Joining our team requires skill, daring, leadership, teaming, humor and a love of interiors. We are presently searching for a Junior Designer for our Raleigh, NC studio. The Junior Designer, while working under the direct supervision of a more senior Designer or Project Manager, performs a broad variety of drafting and/or design tasks. Responsibilities include:

* Work with design team to develop design ideas
* May assist senior designers in selecting fixtures and finishes
* Under supervision, develops preliminary space plans
* Assist and learn detailing
* Assist and learn the production of furniture & finish packages, along with cost estimating
* Assists senior staff with verification of site details to support design
* Assists in field surveying of client spaces
* Corrects drawings red lined by others
* Supports the team in collecting information for client assessment; may attend interviews, provide documentation support; developing skills working with Affinity program tool

Qualifications:

* Graduate of an architecture school preferred: equivalent experience may be substituted
* 1+ year experience or equivalent educational experience: strongly prefer experience working in corporate interior design projects

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

* Working knowledge of the application of color, materials and aesthetic form
* Familiarity with space planning methodology
* Familiarity with furnishings and equipment
* Basic sketching and rendering skills
* Basic interior architecture detailing skills
* Working knowledge of CDs and procedures
* Commitment to support projects through peaks and valleys
* Intermediate MS Office Suite skills
* Basic Adobe Creative Suite skills
* Basic verbal and written communication skills

Please submit a portfolio or work examples with your application

Working Conditions:

For the majority of the time the Junior Designer will be sitting in a studio with limited physical requirements. This may require individuals to bend, stretch, twist and reach. On occasion individuals will be required to visit a client site to perform site verifications and field surveys. The position is not subject to occupational and safety risks.

Interior Architects, Inc. (IA) provides equal opportunity in all aspects of recruitment and employment to all persons without regard to their race, color, creed, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, nationality, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, uniformed service member and to promote the full realization of equal employment opportunities.