Fractal Analytics - Associate Director - Design Leader

Job Description:

- The Design leader will own the visual brand experience. Focus will be on building a consistent and cohesive visual design embedded every touch point externally and internally around the world.

- The person will ideally also be responsible to lead the company's physical people experience for clients, prospects, employee candidates and internal Fractalites.

- The person will manage internal designers and freelancers that support Sales, Marketing, Client Services, and other functional departments.

Build Fractal Analytics Visual Brand Experience

Design and institutionalize corporate brand standards:

- Design solution and internal logos and related visual identities that reflect the key value proposition and target audience

- Develop and institutionalize corporate templates for collateral, case studies, papers, presentations, email, advertisements, social media properties, and stationary to support external and internal communications

- Define and manage internal design library including images, templates, standards, and other materials organized by target user

- Refine and implement design for Marketing and Sales by target audience and communication message; apply or modify templates, insert content, and adjust where needed

- Develop ad-hoc design for integrated marketing and sales campaigns across multiple formats and platforms

- Manage Client Services design team in developing consistent and high impact information design in presentations and dashboards

- Support internal functions with posters, banners, email, presentations, recruiting and employee materials, and input on interior design

- May be required to own (manage) or collaborate with solutions and functional departments to design consistent and high impact user experience (UX)

Design Management:

- Develop design policies and practices, and implement request tracking system to ensure user satisfaction; educate users on briefing requirements, input requirements and expected delivery timelines; uphold policy compliance as well as allow for flexibility in prioritizing urgent ad-hoc requests

- Develop and proactively manage all design requests across departments by proactively gathering requirements, setting timeline expectations, and regularly report out delivery status

- Develop processes and automation where possible to streamline repeatable deliverables and increase productivity

- Gather performance metrics to inform hiring decisions and internally promote design team success

- Collaborate with all functional departments across global offices; measure and achieve high satisfaction Lead by example to coach and groom design team to excel and advance their career

Qualification & Experience:

- This person must have extensive experience in corporate branding, communication design, visual story-telling and project management.

- Demonstrated leadership in thought, action and team building.

- Ability to collaborate across levels, time zones, and design experience.

Other qualifications include:

- 10+ years of B2B corporate design, preferably in a design agency or professional services firm

- Deep knowledge of digital and print design formats and templates

- Knowledge of image libraries and appropriate uses

- Strong problem solving and analytical mindset

- Experience visualizing Analytics or other complex scientific concepts

- Experience managing and coaching a design team

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Familiarity with Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail and Technology industries a plus.

- Experience with professional design software (e.g., Corel Draw, Photoshop, Illustrator, and publishing tools)

- Experience with UX strongly preferredExperience designing, storyboarding and editing video and digital interactive preferred

Education:

- Undergraduate degree or professional certification in design or related field is required. Engineering, Statistics, other science degree, or MBA a plus.

Company Profile:

Fractal Analytics

Fortune 500 companies recognize analytics is a competitive advantage to understand customers and make better decisions. We deliver insight, innovation and impact to them through predictive analytics and visual story-telling.

We are growing quickly around the globe to meet the fast-paced demand for analytics with offices in San Mateo, New Jersey, Toronto, UK, Rome, Singapore, Dubai, Mumbai, and Delhi.

Our mission is to help companies move toward higher levels of sophisticated and institutionalized use of analytics. We solve problems, operationalize solutions to drive results, and drive organizations toward fact-based decisioning including.

Our analytics solutions are delivered as Global Analytics Partnerships (GAP) or customized analytics programs:

1) Customer Insights and Analytics

2) Marketing Effectiveness

3) Business Intelligence

4) Pricing Analytics