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Sr Designer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
New York, NY, United States
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Job Requisition ID: 9881
As a Senior Presentation Designer for HMH’s new in-house creative agency, you’ll bring content to life as a visual storyteller creating both sales and internal business presentations. Maintaining HMH brand aesthetics is essential, by employing strong typography, design, and composition skills as well as the ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment. This role will also execute print and web materials as needed.
Primary Responsibilities
• Concept and produce compelling marketing designs to distinguish HMH from its competitors.
• Ensure your creative exemplifies best in class innovative, conceptually driven, and cohesive design while meeting creative requirements, mindfully selecting font, photography, and design layout.
• Participate in campaign and execution kick-offs and clearly present work during creative pitch meetings, providing an insightful point of view and rationale.
• Create (and adhere to) style guides, ensuring that colleagues have the guidelines necessary to execute deliverables in the same aesthetic system. Conversely, don’t overlap key branding elements across various campaigns or programs.
• Works on numerous projects at a given time, staying on top of deadlines and proactively communicating any challenges to both account managers and Design Managers.
• Create engaging, story-driven presentations that deliver a clear business goal. Synthesize and interpret information in order to create infographics, complex charts, and animations.
• Work directly with department heads as well as Executive Leadership to produce both internal and external presentations
Required Skills and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in graphic design
• Experience designing for B2B solutions (education publishing industry preferred)
• Proficient in MS PowerPoint; Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator; Keynote; willingness and ability to maintain an elevated aesthetic no matter the mode of execution
• Proven track record in developing compelling creative work for complex clients and businesses
• Experience developing strong client and team relationships
• Speed and agility; ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure, developing creative design within tight deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in digital channels and marketing
• Animation and video experience a plus.
Physical Requirements
• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).
• The person in this position needs to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings.
ABOUT US:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K–12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award-winning children's books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.
PLEASE NOTE:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.