Freelance - Sr. graphic designer - Remote (CET)

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Board of Innovation is an independently owned business design and innovation strategy firm with offices in Antwerp, Amsterdam, New York, and Singapore. Our business designers help the world’s largest organizations navigate fundamental shifts. We do this by developing growth strategies, innovation capabilities, and new businesses with many of the world’s largest organizations (have a look at our cases here).
Our Growth Team, which you will become a part of, is a global team that is on a mission to support the rapid global scaling of our business. As part of this mission we’re partnering with one of the world’s best branding agencies to do a rebranding with the goal of positioning us as the leading independent business design agency we are aiming to become. Our Growth team leads this rebranding project and is in charge of rolling out the rebranding with everything that entails - from redesigning our core assets, to launching awareness campaigns around it.

About the team & culture:
In the role as Senior Graphic Designer, you will be a central part of this upcoming rebranding exercise. You will work closely with the branding agency to align on implementation of the visual identity, and steer a group of design freelancers to help carry out the redesign of all our assets - digital and physical. You will report to Signe, our marketing manager, and work with parts of the global leadership team and our in-house Digital Designer (focused on website rebuild) on the rebranding design implementation. This role is a 7 month full-time freelance contract, solely focused on the rebranding project - starting in February 2022.
We believe in bringing your whole self to work and we aim to empower everyone in their work, giving them autonomy and ownership of what they do. We recognize the positive value of diversity and welcome and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.
While we mainly work remotely these days we are a closely-knit team and we’re looking for someone who thrives in our culture. If the following statements resonate with you please keep on reading!

• Be entrepreneurial - We take ownership and get things done.
• Raise the bar - We aim to set the standard by working smarter, not harder.
• Help each other - We genuinely help others to shine and be amazing. No ego.
• Make it matter - We focus on what will have the biggest impact. No theatre.

About the role:
You own the redesign of our core assets

• You implement the new visual identity across our assets: guides, publications, tools, digital toolkits, office signage, merchandise, client presentations, workshop materials, etc.
• You use your strong eye for aesthetics and visual details to ensure quality design across all assets
• Designing graphic content, illustrations, and infographics.
• Managing graphic designs from conception to delivery.

You coordinate the design of assets with freelancer designers

• You delegate and coordinate the design tasks for freelance designers to speed up the redesign process, review their work, and ensure that the quality of deliverables is high
• You ensure that all aspects of the redesign process are carried through to completion and meet the internal deadlines

You are a credible challenger towards the branding agency

• You ensure that the new brand guidelines contain all we need to design various assets
• You gather feedback from across the business on key redesigns and from the design/rebranding agency we are working with

Requirements:

• Strong experience in design of various branding assets (digital as well as physical)
• Proven work experience with graphic design
• Strong experience in Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Figma, Google Slides, InVision, and other design software
• Experience leading a team of junior designers or freelance designers and ensuring high quality throughout execution
• Designing graphic content, illustrations, and infographics.
• Managing graphic designs from conception to delivery.
• Experience with and understanding of design principles, theories, and concepts
• Strong design aesthetic, an understanding of branding principles, style guides, layout, typography, and systematic design rationale
• Strong conceptual, problem solving and time-management skills; a broad thinker who is able to offer a variety of design solutions

Benefits:
Why join this project with Board of Innovation

• You love graphic design and live for developing slick, and useful designs across a range of assets
• You would like to be part of an ambitious and highly strategic rebranding process, working in collaboration with a well-renowned branding agency, and senior leadership of an innovation firm
• You look for a place where you can be your whole self and become part of a highly talented, ambitious, (from time to time hilarious) international, and diverse team (27 different nationalities and counting!). You won’t find egos with us.
• You will get a market-conform remuneration package, benchmarked with local standards.
• You can work flexibly when you’re most productive. We don’t have typical 9 to 5 expectations.
• This role is a 7 month full-time freelance contract, solely focused on the rebranding project.

Where you’ll be

• We are a distributed workforce with hubs in Belgium (Antwerp), the United States (New York City), and Singapore
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be anywhere where you can collaborate easily with people within the Central European time zone
• Freelance or payroll? This is a freelance role