Are you seeking to make a significant impact by crafting our brand’s visual identity? Join Principal Financial Group as a Senior Associate, Design, and bring your creativity to life through high-quality graphic design!
What You Will Do
- Conceptualize and complete creative projects, bringing our brand personality to life through outstanding graphic design implementations across different mediums including marketing collateral, high‑profile reports, presentations, event materials, and other branded content.
- Work with cross‑functional teams, collaborating with design strategists, managers, and the accounts team to maintain brand consistency, design quality, and deliver final outputs to internal and external collaborators.
- Stay current with design trends and technology, especially within Adobe Creative Cloud, and apply these insights to enhance visual work.
- Offer design consultation services to clients, ensuring their vision aligns with our brand’s ethos.
- Perform other duties as assigned, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability.
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in graphic design or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of professional graphic‑design experience working with product, service, or brand equity standards.
- Proven ability to translate a brief into flawless design executions, with strong problem‑solving, communication, presentation, and strategic decision‑making skills.
- Extensive understanding of visual brand systems and standard methodologies for design across various mediums and platforms.
- Portfolio demonstrating skill in layout, typography, content hierarchy, photo editing, and illustration.
- Familiarity with marketing, advertising, public relations, and digital‑marketing strategies.
- Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Microsoft Office, and other design software; knowledge of HTML and CSS is a plus.
- Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced team environment, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail, effective communication, and accurate project‑timeline estimation.
- Adaptable, flexible, and capable of maintaining effective relationships.
Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.