Senior Designer

Sixteenfifty, a boutique creative, advertising and branding agency, is looking for a gnar Senior Designer. This individual must be a well-rounded designer with intelligent design skills and a refined sense of detail. This is a hands-on role as you will be tasked to design and help steer creative.

This position works directly with ownership and is able to lead and create from concept through to final product. This includes identity/brand development, advertising campaigns, destination marketing, casino promos, websites, hospitality concepts, crafting guest experiences, TV commercials, we do it all. The successful candidate will be organized, dependable, knowledgeable, detail-oriented, able to work both autonomously and as part of a team, and possess the ability to multitask and handle multiple projects simultaneously with ease. You will be responsible for taking briefs from Account Executives, clients, and ownership, working across a wide range of projects, and have the ability to direct creative initiatives.

Perks include; Full health Benefits, 401k, an in-house coffee bar, gym, art gallery, located in the heart of La Jolla.

Check out our website to take a look at our work. Sixteenfifty.com (password is: gnar)

Sixteenfifty is an entrepreneurial environment with talented people. You must have spirit, grit, care about creating great work, and love going above and beyond (aka being gnar).

What you’ll do:

• Create design solutions for our various clients, including but not limited to print, web, TV, social, environmental, creative campaigns, daily creative requests.

• Design and work on your own projects while multi-tasking with the team on various other projects

• Develop concepts in conjunction with ownership

• Prepare files for printing and publishing

• Interface with merchants, creative, pre-press, and traffic teams to ensure design approvals

• Work in conjunction with different teams on collaborative projects

• Work on various hospitality experiences from casinos, hotels, restaurants, products, destinations

What you need to have:

• Minimum of 7 years of prior agency work experience in a similar position

• Ability to write copy, develop creative strategies

• Ability to prepare final mechanical files for release to printer

• Proficient with Mac OSX and Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign and Illustrator proficiency and efficiency REQUIRED)

• Well-developed typography skills (with knowledge of visual hierarchies)

• Strong conceptual and brainstorming skills

• The ability to work in a timely manner to meet deadlines

• Good presentation skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills and social personality

• Self-motivated, hard-working, initiative-taking

• Exposure to diverse project work

What You Need to Have 

1. Your portfolio that shows us what you can do

2. Any other tidbits that let us know that you have a passion for the work

Sixteenfifty Holding, Inc. is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Sixteenfifty via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Sixteenfifty. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Sixteenfifty as a result of the referral or through other means.