job summary: Our client, a global leader in the investment management industry, has an immediate need for a Senior Visual Deisgner on a contract basis. This position will start 100% remote but may be required to be onsite in downtown Los Angeles later this year with a onsite/remote hybrid schedule. This position requires 10+ years of visual design experience. location: Los Angeles, California job type: Contract salary: $60 - 85 per hour work hours: 8am to 4pm education: Bachelors responsibilities: Designs omni-channel marketing creative that elevates our brand and emotionally connects with our customers Leadership Functions: - Drives design strategy and decision making within project, product or marketing team - Influences strategic marketing and customer experience decisions within project, product team or pod - Demonstrates and shares a high-degree of understanding of our business and customers - Informs all design decisions with design principles, research, data, customer needs and intended business outcomes - Develops, presents and communicates a clear POV on design decisions, using design language and rationale backed by best practices, research and data - Presents work with a persuasive, senior-level and engaging approach to storytelling - Participates in design team events, critiques and meetings. Stays up-to-date on design systems, brand guidelines and team standards. - Bring a consultative approach to partner collaboration Design Functions: - Designs emotionally resonate, visually impactful and cleanly designed touchpoints across end-to-end customer journeys - Ensures design touchpoints align to brand guidelines and design standards. Recommends exceptions and optimizations as needed - Identifies opportunities to optimize and evolve design touchpoints, in order to generate more value for our customers and our business - Conducts competitive and comparative landscape assessments, subject matter and stakeholder interviews to build a solid foundation for excellent craftsmanship and creative innovation - Works both divergently and convergently to ideate, co-create and iteratively refine designs and creative concepts. Methods may include: divergent brainstorming and sketching sessions - Creates omni-channel visual design deliverables and artifacts. Deliverables may include: display ads, email graphics, social assets, printed literature, brochures, print ads, campaign landing pages, presentations - Partners with a cross-functional team of digital and IT partners to understand the technical capabilities and best practices for creating digital touchpoints and campaign landing pages. - Stays informed of design trends, frameworks and methods. - Leverages qualitative and quantitative learnings to evolve concepts or pivot in a new direction - Consults with stakeholders and business leads to ensure creative design is aligned with meeting business goals - Socializes and presents design concepts, strategy and recommendations. - Contributes thought leadership and expertise to projects and partnerships - Engages partners and teammates with a consultative mindset and approach - Contributes to visual design and art direction toolkit of methods, tools + resources Requirements: - 5-10 years of experience in design or related field - Four-year degree and formal training, or diverse experience that results in the same quality of work qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 10 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors (required) skills: Web Design (10 years of experience is required)Web Design (10 years of experience is required)Web Design (10 years of experience is required) Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. Qualified applicants in San Francisco with criminal histories will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For certain assignments, Covid-19 vaccination and/or testing may be required by Randstad's client or applicable federal mandate, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Carefully review the job posting for details on vaccine/testing requirements or ask your Randstad representative for more information.