Title: Senior Designer
Reporting to: Associate Creative Director
Location: 200 Madison Avenue, New York
Employment type: Full-time

We’re looking for a Senior Designer to join our growing New York studio. As Senior Designer, you’ll drive the creative process from concept development through to implementation. You’ll own and lead day-to-day creative work across projects, bringing your expertise in design to various mediums.

Main duties of role:

• Drive creative design: shape and oversee creative work by getting under the skin of the challenge and providing direction to junior designers as required.
• Apply design criteria: distil creative briefs with clarity and purpose, and develop design solutions from idea generation to implementation.
• Use design thinking: be inquisitive and curious, and ask probing questions to uncover strategic insights that guide the design criteria and creative product.
• Deliver fresh creative work: develop design solutions that address clients’ strategic opportunities with commitment and creative flair.
• Clearly articulate ideas: communicate confidently to sell in strategically-driven creative ideas internally and externally, while navigating client feedback.
• Learn and apply: express a desire to learn new design and technical skills, thinking ahead to how creative will be delivered and applying that knowledge with every new project.
• Collaborate across teams: work closely with other creative, strategic, client service and production leads through a holistic approach to creative solutions.
• Build studio culture: participate in and contribute to the team culture, helping to build a collaborative spirit through a period of strong growth.
• Work with efficiency: manage your time and workflow to deliver ideas on time, with purpose and without sacrificing quality or attention to detail.

Key attributes:

• Hands-on experience: five to seven years of hands-on design experience in a design agency environment.
• Design education: hold a design-related bachelor’s degree from a leading design institution (postgraduate degrees are a plus, but not required).
• Creative portfolio: present a portfolio that demonstrates your expertise in developing strategically-driven creative work across unique brand challenges.
• Passion for design: share a passion and curiosity for design thinking and creative expression in everything you do.
• Collaborative mindset: demonstrate an ability to engage in proactive, open and collaborative teamwork across the design team.
• Openness to critique: respond positively to feedback and direction to help develop your creative work and overall skillset.
• Confident storytelling skills: show thoughtfulness and confidence in articulating ideas in pitches and presentations to clients.
• Positive personal skills: professional, organised and calm under pressure, with the ability to adapt to changing project requirements.
• Proficient software skills: be fluent in the Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office (other platforms are a bonus).

About us:

Founded in 1957 by Sir Terence Conran, we’re Havas’ brand and design consultancy.

With studios in London, Paris, Mumbai, Dubai and New York, our team of 250 strategists and creatives work across brand strategy, brand design, experience design, and communications and engagement, using thoughtful design to inspire progress for our clients.

We believe progress is achieved through balance. Between ambition and pragmatism, imagination and intellect, hard work and life beyond work. It’s this approach that underpins our ethos when it comes to brand building. And it’s also what makes life at Conran Design Group so rewarding. Progressive thinking for ambitious brands – alongside a clearly mapped-out career path for the people who make it happen.

Interested? To apply for this role, please email:

careers@ConranDesignGroup.com