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Senior Graphic Designer - Team Sports
Centric Brands • New York, United States of America 🇺🇸
The Senior Graphic Designer manages the graphics component of the seasonal design development process, coordinating and executing original graphics concepts for various design needs. This role involves collaboration with design, product development, and production teams to create engaging graphics for men's apparel and logos.
Responsibilities
- Research and identify graphics trend directions in collaboration with Design Director; manage development of themes and concepts with Graphic Artist(s); create presentation boards for meetings and mock-ups
- Monitor new trends, techniques, treatments and resources in graphic design and production
- Execute translation of brand(s), where applicable, into compelling graphic deliverables for garments, logos, illustrations, photographs, tags, labels; coordinate with Graphic Artist(s) creation of camera-ready art and color separations; collaborate with Designer(s) and Design Director to incorporate graphics into line
- Provide expert knowledge on graphics aesthetics, processes, and treatments for design team, merchants and production; collaboratively manage reference library
- Tech pack art for production
- Manage follow-up with internal partners in design and production; manage interoffice communication and relationships with vendors and manufacturers; manage existing relationships and develop relationships with new suppliers, vendors and business partners to monitor trends, leverage new resources and implement most current processes
- Partner with the Law Department to ensure that graphics/designs do not infringe on intellectual property rights and register new rights where necessary
- Contribute positively to team dynamic and manage up where necessary
- Attract, develop and retain talent
- Monitor and evaluate performance of individuals
Requirements
- Superior organizational skills and excellent communication skills; team oriented
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines; highly detail oriented, meticulous and creative
- Creativity, technical capability and sensibility for graphics and fonts; strong ability to sketch
- Extensive knowledge of traditional and web-based graphic production techniques, including color separations, camera-ready art, heat transfers, etc.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design or related field
- 4 - 7 years experience in graphic design; significant relevant experience in category
- Expert in Adobe products and Mac computers; highly proficient in Microsoft Office
- PLM experience is a plus
Key Skills
- Superior organizational skills and excellent communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Highly detail oriented, meticulous and creative
- Creativity, technical capability and sensibility for graphics and fonts
- Strong ability to sketch
- Extensive knowledge of traditional and web-based graphic production techniques
- Expert in Adobe products and Mac computers
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office
- PLM experience
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits plan (medical, dental, vision) that includes a matching 401(k)
- Summer Fridays
- Generous PTO
- Merchandise discounts
- Excellent career development opportunities
- Work environment that reflects industry leadership
- Social impact program, Centric Cares
- D&I committee shaping the future of diversity, equity and inclusion
About Centric Brands
Centric Brands LLC is a global leading lifestyle brand collective that has unparalleled expertise in product design, development and sourcing, retail and digital commerce, marketing, and brand building. Centric designs, sources, markets, and sells high-quality products in the kids, men’s and women’s apparel, accessories, beauty, and entertainment categories. The Company’s portfolio includes licenses for more than 100 iconic brands, including Airwalk®, Calvin Klein®, Tommy Hilfiger®, Nautica®, and Under Armour® in the kid’s category; Buffalo®, Faherty®, Hervé Léger®, IZOD® and Joe’s Jeans® in the men’s and women’s apparel category; All Saints®, Coach®, Frye®, Hunter®, Kate Spade®, Michael Kors®, and Vince® in the accessories category; and in the Sports & Entertainment category, Disney®, Marvel®, Messi®, Nickelodeon®, and Warner Brothers® among many others. The Company also owns and operates Avirex®, Fiorelli®, Hudson®, Robert Graham®, and Taste Beauty® and operates joint venture brands,
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