Senior Designer

Senior Designer
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\n Founded in 1919 as Phototype and recently rebranded as the Olberding Brand Family, we are a family company focused on delivering the highest quality and client service in the graphics design, management and printing industry. We Design, Optimize and Protect Brands. Our clients are primarily consumer products companies and printers and we help them by delivering a broad range of services from brand strategy and packaging design, to adaptive design across various print and digital platforms, all the way to color management and the production of printing plates. With our world headquarters located in Cincinnati, we have over 450 employees throughout the United States and offices in Europe and Asia.
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\n The Senior Designer will work with an onsite team to support our client in helping to market the brands they produce, and consumers have come to love. To be successful in this role, you must be able to design within an established brand identity for some of America’s favorite CPG brands.

The Senior Designer will lead projects and small brands from a design standpoint, not expected to be client facing, but expected to begin to master the craft and knowledge of the brands you serve.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

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• Absorb the bulk of complex tasks and conceptual work
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• Strong grasp and application of storytelling and design rationale
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• Expected to participate deeply in design WIP and work sessions to drive conceptual development
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• Proactively share design knowledge, including inspiration, trends, and tools
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• Strong focus on a few brands
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• Leads projects, eventually brands, based on brand and client complexity and volume
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• Occasionally client facing and presenting work
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• Assist with maintaining client relationships
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Qualifications Include:

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• Strong project management and organization skills
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• Knowledgeable of consumer products, creative design, and production artwork
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• Ability to articulate rationale behind design choices
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• Diplomatically give and receive feedback on their work and work of fellow designers
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• 8+ years’ experience
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• Amazing portfolio
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• Agency experience preferred
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• Expert level in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign)
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• Working knowledge of Adobe XD, After Effects, and/or Premiere is a plus
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• Consumer product company knowledge or experience required
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Why Choose Olberding Brand Family?
\n When you join Olberding Brand Family, you’re not just taking a job; you’re becoming part of a legacy of excellence and innovation. We offer a supportive and dynamic work environment where your expertise in pre-media will be highly valued. We believe in supporting our employees' well-being and offer a competitive benefits package that includes:

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• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance to keep you and your family healthy
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• A 401k retirement plan with company contributions to help you plan for your future
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• Generous paid time off (PTO), personal time, and volunteer time off, in addition to 8 observed holidays
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• Parental leave to support growing families
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• Career development opportunities
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The Olberding Brand Family is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes individuals of diverse talents and backgrounds.

For fastest consideration, please apply online to the Careers section of our website www.olberdingbrands.com. Only applications received through this process will be considered. No phone calls please.
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\n Salary range for this role: $75k-105k