Senior Visual Designer

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, our most valuable asset is our people. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers, and consumers worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning; bold ideas; courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.

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About Creative & Design at ZS

Creative & Design is the full-service agency powered by ZS—the world's largest professional services company focused on health. At Creative & Design, our mission is simple: Imagine the unimagined and make it real for clients and brands brave enough to be first. Additionally, we believe in the real purpose of health brands, see this space as a platform for incredible creativity, storytelling, and innovation. We are continuously in pursuit of doing what hasn’t been done and set out for inspiration every day with a club. If that sounds good to you, then Creative & Design might be the place for you.

Role Description and Expectation

Valued team member working in the advertising, design, and communications space with an emphasis on global health clients and brands. The Visual Design Pleno (Studio) is a key member of our São Paulo-based design studio and part of a global team (teammates in New York, California, London, and India). The São Paulo design group will be focused on executing established designs across a broad range of tactics for US and global brands primarily in the health space. This group will be connected to and working with teams primarily based in the United States. As the Visual Design Pleno (Studio) in our São Paulo office, your role is multifaceted. You will support the Senior Visual Designer (Studio Lead) in driving the design output of the Sao Paolo group (graphic design, information, and content design); help create and maintain efficient and effective work practices; establish and uphold best practices for creating and maintaining design systems, and act as a collaborative partner to creative brand-leads and cross-functional team members.

What you will do:

• Work with graphic designers, art directors, and assistants to support visual design needs of global health brands
• Contribute to visual design excellence according to established brand guidelines and standards
• Execute a wide variety of tactics which require visual design excellence according to established brand guidelines
• Help manage, mentor, and direct a team of assistants to ensure the delivery of high-quality visual design work, good creative culture, and efficient operation
• Contribute to creating and maintaining an efficient visual design workflow with strong operational team habits
• Create within established brand guidelines and health industry regulations to update existing pieces and create new ones based on provided manuscripts
• Learn healthcare design regulations and guide the team in their application
• Help lead the team to work within established brand guidelines and health industry regulations to update existing pieces and create new ones based on provided manuscripts
• Help lead design and formatting of PowerPoint presentations, create animations, and create templates
• Help lead design of illustrations, charts, infographics for educational and promotional purposes
• Help lead the production of event materials, both digital and print, including signage, brochures, and web pages
• Help lead the creation of new web pages and follow standards of HTML, that include images, logos, usability, and accessibility
• Help ensure files are properly prepared for final release across a variety of mediums including print production, mechanical builds, file structure, and other related issues
• Own the final steps of print and digital layout design and delivery
• Provide image retouching, clipping paths, and additional image manipulation
• Maintain production files, including fonts, images, logos, and other artwork
• Update existing files and layouts to incorporate change
• Help set priorities and manage workloads so that assignments are completed within agreed-upon time frames
• Provide creative feedback and ongoing coaching to grow people's creative and technical skills
• Share experience and knowledge of the industry
• Collaborate closely with art directors, designers, developers, copywriters, and other cross-functional team members

What you will bring:

• Must demonstrate strong art direction and graphic design skills across a variety of mediums
• Must be able to demonstrate effective oral and written English communication skills
• Strong typographic and layout skills
• Ability to design across a broad range of mediums including print, print sales collateral (brochures, fliers), OOH (poster, signage, etc.), PowerPoint, digital/interactive (website, social, banner ads), digital sales materials (interactive PDFs, Veeva), video graphic elements, email
• Design and information into coherent, high-impact communications while adhering to established brand guidelines
• Skilled working in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Veeva, PowerPoint
• Managerial and leadership skills
• Knowledge of the latest web and graphic design trends and tools
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Ability to work well within a team setting
• Interest in incorporating AI tools into work
• Advertising and marketing school or coursework
• Art school or coursework
• Related areas study
• 5+ years graphic design, studio or related work experience