Graphic Designer - #183490

What You’ll Do

As a Graphic Designer, you will play a crucial role in creating and producing visually compelling designs and deliverables for various digital platforms and in-person experiences. With a strong background in design principles, you will collaborate in a fast-paced environment and when projects need evolving with the program managers on the Community Initiatives team and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative design deliverables.

In This, Role You Will

• Design & Production: Create and deliver timely and accurate graphic art production, layout and design for programs and projects (webpage banners, emails, conference booth design and assets, social media assets)
• Collaboration & Communication: Communicate and collaborate directly with Community Initiatives teams’ Program Managers to gather input and regular feedback, managing expectations and presenting design concepts effectively.
• Visual identity Consistency: Ensure Microsoft Research visual identity consistency across all design deliverables.
• Alignment: Collaborate with and collect feedback from the Design Lead in thevResearch Creative Studio to ensure alignment to overall Research visual identity guidelines and evolutions
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years experience in graphic design
• An undergraduate or bachelor’s degree in graphic design or related field
• Proven experience as a graphic designer with a strong portfolio across print and digital, including event-related materials
• In-depth mastery of current design and production tools and technologies: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, M365, WordPress.
• Familiarity with Microsoft productivity tools: Microsoft 365, Teams, PowerPoint, SharePoint
• Strong time management skills to independently manage multiple projects, responsibilities, and ensure preparedness.
• Excellent written communication skills, essential for collaborating across a global team and multiple time zones, ensuring clear and effective updates via Teams messages.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications (Nice To Have)

• Experience designing for academic research communities.
• Knowledge of motion graphics or video editing.
• Experience working in a large tech or research organization.
  
  

Top 4 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• Minimum 5+ years experience with in-depth mastery of current design and production tools and technologies: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, M365, WordPress..
• Minimum 5+years experience with proven experience as a graphic designer with a strong portfolio across print and digital, including event-related materials.
• Minimum 5+years experience with strong time management skills to independently manage multiple projects, responsibilities, and ensure preparedness. (this is 75% of the role)
• Minimum 5+years experience with excellent written communication skills, essential for collaborating across a global team and multiple time zones, ensuring clear and effective updates via Teams messages.
  
  

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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