Senior Visual Communications Designer

About Gemic

Gemic is a global business strategy and innovation consultancy with offices in New York City, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Toronto, and Abu Dhabi. We have built a practice aimed at helping leading corporations and institutions create sustainable growth through a richer understanding of the emerging shifts in culture, business, and technology through a human-centered approach. Our team is made up of anthropologists, philosophers, economists, sociologists, political scientists, and futurists working together through research and strategy to develop design-led solutions.

About the Role

Gemic delves into the world of the unspoken and unseen – the rules and conventions that guide social behavior and norms and the beliefs that shape what people see as good and valuable. These intangibles shape human experience but often lack a vocabulary and voice.

The primary role of a visual communications designer is to help our team of researchers share their learnings through visualizing evidence, portraying the lives of people we encounter in our research, and building explanatory models and frameworks that distill our learnings into memorable concepts and ideas.

When not actively working to communicate work, you will help build and execute the strategy for the Gemic brand. As our work touches on many new digital platforms, we will need to build a coherent system that works across them all and enable our team to work while maintaining consistency and quality. You will also help champion design internally and help develop a strong design culture within the company.

You will be based in one of our offices serving a global function out of either New York, Berlin, or London.

Key responsibilities

• Develop the visual communication of client-facing deliverables
• Reviewing work from other designers and ensuring we deliver excellent quality designs
• Quickly ideating and prototyping with multidisciplinary teams
• Helping polish the skills of other designers, as well as basic training for non-designers
• Visual systems development for the Gemic brand
• Information design, data visualization, and graphic presentation of visual content
• Presenting ideas to directors, partners and clients
• Acting as a design ambassador and custodian of the Gemic brand within the company
• Stay updated on visual design trends and techniques

Required skills and experience

• 4+ years of practical experience in visual design.
• Formal education in a relevant field.
• Proficient in graphic design tools such as the Adobe Suite and Figma and ideation and presentation tools such as Keynote, PowerPoint and Miro.
• Exceptional interpersonal, presentation and communication skills necessary to present your solutions and to build trust and respect within the team.
• Exceptional knowledge of the design process and the ability to conduct brainstorming, prototyping and feedback sessions with interdisciplinary teams.
• Being hands-on and capable of managing and prioritizing multiple work streams.
• Awareness of the business aspects involving our work, such as business goals, commercial strategies, positioning and vision, and how these aspects influence what we do as designers.
• The ability to support the internal teams in delivering innovation strategies through formats such as presentations, video, interactive experiences, workshops and exhibits.
• Excellent eye for detail, ambitious for the quality of your work, and a constant search for excellence.
• Being able to quickly and effectively communicate ideas through sketching and diagrams.
• Being open to go beyond visual communication and helping teams in building narratives and structuring stories.
• Being personable, open, engaging, and a good listener.
• The ability to bring concepts to life via illustration, 3D or other techniques are highly appreciated.

What We Offer

• A full-time role as part of a dynamic, international team in London, Berlin, or New York (note: you must have legal work authorization in the country you’re applying to)
• Generous PTO per calendar year - 25 vacation days, 2 personal days, 11 paid public holidays
• Paid sick and parental leave
• Attractive company perks (personal learning and development budget, phone plan, and more)
• A fast-growing company where your input and expertise plays part in steering the company forward