Manhattan Strategies Senior Associate for Design (Graphic Designer) New York, NY · Full time Company website

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Manhattan Strategies is an independent consulting firm obsessed with telling compelling visual stories for the world’s leading and emerging brands and voices. We solve problems by combining design, strategic communication and competitive intelligence to command attention. We do it by putting a design studio and communication firm under one roof, marrying creative consideration with storytelling that transcends language and geographic barriers and inspires people at the deepest level.

About Manhattan Strategies, an Award-Winning & New-Age Consulting Firm

By 2035, the majority of CEOs and senior decision makers will be digital natives: Millennials whose expectations will reflect a digital and visual life experience.

At Manhattan Strategies, our mission is rooted in a simple hypothesis: if you communicate visually, you maximize your power to compel action. To do it, we combine an attentive communications agency and a boldly ambitious design studio. Our work spans challenges of every size and stage, from pre-seed startups to Fortune 100 companies and from political campaigns to product launches.

Manhattan Strategies has been recognized by ADWEEK among the fastest-growing agencies and by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest-growing companies in America and the best B2B public relations provider in the United States. The firm has also won dozens of awards for its design, web development, branding and video production.

About the Senior Associate for Design

Manhattan Strategies is seeking an experienced graphic designer to serve as Senior Associate for Design. The ideal candidate is a highly capable designer with strong visual judgment, excellent execution skills, and experience working at agency pace. This role is designed for someone with 3-5 years of agency experience who can take projects from brief to delivery while balancing speed with quality.

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work across a wide range of formats and clients, translating strategy and messaging into clear, compelling stories. You’ll collaborate closely with designers, communicators and account teams, and will at times participate in client-facing conversations to walk through creative and articulate design rationale.

Our design work spans print, digital, social, presentation design and video storyboards, often within the same engagement. The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between mediums, managing multiple workstreams and maintaining a high bar for quality under tight timelines.

What You'll Do:

• Design and deliver visual work across digital and print, including social media assets, presentations, reports, brand collateral and video storyboards
• Work primarily in Figma, creating clean, well-organized files and systems that scale across projects
• Lead web and interface design in Figma, creating clean, scalable files and systems using components, variants, auto layout and styles to support web-ready implementation across projects
• Use Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; After Effects a plus) as part of the core design toolkit
• Translate strategic and editorial direction into strong visual concepts and polished execution
• Collaborate with communications, marketing and account teams to align creative with objectives
• Participate in client-facing discussions, presenting work and explaining creative decisions
• Maintain visual consistency and brand integrity across platforms and deliverables
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience as a designer at an agency or studio
• A portfolio demonstrating range and versatility across print, digital, social and presentation design
• High proficiency in Figma and working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Cloud
• Strong command of typography, layout, hierarchy and visual storytelling
• Comfort operating in a collaborative, in-office environment
• Clear communication skills and sound creative judgment

Benefits & Compensation:

• Compensation range is $67,000 to $84,000 per year
• Benefits include bonus eligibility and 401(k) with company match
• Paid family leave
• Healthcare and dental insurance

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