Graphic Designer

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Graphic Designer to join our growing team.

This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to our Boston office location a minimum of 2 days per week.

Your Role

The role of the Graphic Designer is to understand how the client shows up in a 3D space, to visually represent the brand in a two-dimensional format and creatively push boundaries to improve the output of the work. As a Graphic Designer, you will own the agency and client brand image and ensure all work is on brand and reflects the quality of the company.

Your focus is bringing new ideas and thinking to client challenges to solve them in interesting and creative ways. You consistently innovate and develop new presentation techniques to inspire and energize the audience. translate creative briefs into impactful design solutions.

In this role you will:

• Be a leader in new techniques and design applications.
• Create high quality sketches, graphics and layouts, mock-ups, and presentations
• Excel at managing time and meeting tight deadlines
• Approach design with thoughtfulness, bringing to life multiple concepts and solutions.
• Collaborate with graphics production and creative tech to solve design and budgetary challenges while maintaining design and brand integrity

Your Skills

• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and Google Suite
• Passion for learning new software and tracking emerging trends such as AI-based software (Firefly, Gemini, etc.)
• Works on multiple projects simultaneously and successfully with full accountability, maintaining quality at all times
• Tracks time weekly and flags any misalignment in assigned hours
• Meets deadlines without question or communicates concerns early with a solutions-oriented mindset
• Understands impacts of misuse of hours or misalignment of scope
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts, provide constructive feedback, and work effectively in a team environment.
• Collaborates well with the GPJ team from creative to account to production
• Excited to work with new people and work together to bring forward the best ideas
• Supervise and mentor Jr. Creatives and Igniters
• Brings fresh thinking, new ideas and creative solutions to the table
• Follows trends in and out of the industry to push the boundaries
• Pushes for great ideas that are strategically founded, but knows when to let an idea go and move forward with an agree upon direction
• Knows how to ideate within strategic guardrails
• Committed to an open, energetic and inclusive environment
• Maintains calm under pressure
• Stays positive when a project gets challenging
• Comes with solutions to solve problems
• Adaptability and flexibility to navigate evolving project requirements and client expectations.
• Communicate their ideas clearly, confidently and comprehensively
• Comfortable sharing work internally and externally at all stages

• Presents work with confidence and enthusiasm

• Communicates a clear message through a combination of of visuals and copy
• Uses mood boards, sketches, illustrations, elevations, photo comps, and a variety of approaches to convey the message succinctly

• Understand brand guidelines and visual identities and knows how to design to those standards and flag when they are misaligned
• Works well independently and with a team and knows when to escalate issues to creative leadership
• Basic understanding of the experiential industry and how GPJ fits into the ecosystem
• Basic understanding of how GPJ makes money and our business objectives
• Basic Understanding of budgets and how to design within budgetary restrictions
• Clear understanding of everyone’s roles and responsibilities for specific projects and how the departments function as a whole
• Strong understanding of experience and environmental design principles and apply it to the work
• Understanding of the 3D world and what makes up environmental design: textures, materials, architecture, fabrication, rentals, furniture, graphics, styling, decor, props, lighting, etc.
• Understanding of flow, floor plans and space allocation for experiences
• Provide direct support in concept design and development
• Understanding of the 3D world and what makes up environmental design: textures, materials, architecture, fabrication, rentals, furniture, graphics, styling, decor, props, lighting, etc.
• Understanding of the 3D world and what makes up environmental design: textures, materials, architecture, styling, decor, etc.
• Solid comprehension of graphic production
• Works collaboratively with the graphic production department to ensure all graphics are high quality and files are set up for success
• Solid comprehension of the digital design environment.
• - Understanding UX, UI principles and prototyping
• Collaborate with programmers to bring designs to life
• Excellent design skills and taste
• Comprehensive knowledge of graphic and 2D based design
• Tactical understanding of how to apply techniques based on desired outcomes
• Knows how to flex into a client-based aesthetic
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to prepare the first draft of a deck with little to no supervision
• Provide research, analysis and design templates for client presentations
• Understanding deck structures
• Comprehensive understanding of deck master slides and themes to create functional templates for the team to work from

Your Competencies

Urgency - Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others. You demonstrate adaptability and agility when making on-the-spot decisions never sacrificing quality or work interactions. Cool under pressure. For the sake of time, you are able to eliminate unnecessary steps and use network resources to aid in project completion.

Communication - At all levels, you easily convey and sell your ideas, and can articulate an idea with brevity during a brainstorm or client presentation. You express yourself clearly when collaborating and presenting, maintaining a positive image for GPJ both internally and externally. You understand the value of a well-turned phrase and a well-told story.

Creative Innovation - You are an idea-driven creative: someone who thinks about the big picture. Drive, develop, or support new and improved creative methods, products, procedures or technologies. Propels innovation by implementing the latest interactive technology in your storytelling. Devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems. You are an innovative storyteller who is constantly challenging themselves to come up with ideas that are on strategy, transformative, and authentic to the client’s brand.

Flexible - Easily move on to new tasks with little to no notice. Put personal preferences aside and switch to a different strategy, form of communication or other objective without panicking. Maintain composure when deadlines move up and priorities shift. Keeps an open mind.

Prioritization / Organization - Properly allocate time and resources so that jobs are completed within a defined timeframe; within budget and managing all resources (Full-time and freelance) as effectively as possible. Establishing a reasonable timeline for completion when no concrete date is given.

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• 3-5 years’ of experience as a Graphic Designer.
• 4 Year College Degree in Graphic Design, Advertising, Visual Communication or related course of study.

Travel & Mobility

• Ability to travel 25%
• Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed

Salary Range

Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

Who We Are

GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.

You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), and our low employee contribution healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.

GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.