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Position Title: Designer

Location: Gurgaon

Department: R&A Creative

Reports to: Design Manager

What makes Gartner Creative India a GREAT fit for you?

When you join Gartner Creative, you’ll partner with in house-group focused on delivering content excellence. We believe that great design is at the heart of every experience. We use are creative skills to design research content that allows clients make the right decisions with business and technology insights they can’t find anywhere else. Our creative associates earn a competitive base salary and exceptional benefits—along with top training and professional support. If you’re coachable, persistent, smart, design-savvy, and looking for your next great adventure, Gartner is the place for you.

About This Role

The Designer is responsible for influencing the client experience through creation of data visualization, illustration, and layout that best supports and communicates our best practice, insight-driven research. As a member of the in-house design team, the Designer will work with internal clients to create products of varying length, size, and complexity (e.g., webinars, meeting presentations, reports), ensure the design is representative of company graphic and brand standards, and drive internal partners towards deadlines that meet strategic company goals.

What You’ll Do

• Expert Designer and Brand Guardian

• Enforce consistency of brand standards and work internally with cross-functional teams to stay up to date with changes; have a strong familiarity with look, feel, voice and overall brand presence.
• Create high-end quality work in a fast-pace and process-driven environment, to meet deadlines and client expectations for creativity, quality, and accuracy using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.
• Design graphic solutions to projects.
• Influence the final product by steering clients toward the best design option
• Evangelize the in-house style, guidelines, and templates to internal partners; seek areas of improvement or need based on brand visual identity.
• Maintain a high degree of quality control through self-proofing and adhering to the Gartner style guide.

• Project Management

• Determine and allocate the time needed to accomplish each project throughout the day, week, or month.
• Ensure that all projects are completed at the proper time for each phase of the project timeline and provide timely status updates to associates.
• Coordinate client approval and signoff.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while weighing the importance of specific jobs and prioritizing accordingly.
• Work with Project Managers to develop, monitor, manage, and revise project scope documents, time lines, and processes.
• Schedule reviews with managers, art directors, and editors to ensure high product output without disruption to timeline.

• Client Service and Communication

• Communicate professionally during stressful situations, resolving problems effectively and positively.
• Passionately serve internal clients, developing and maintaining strong relationships.
• Resolve complex production and project issues with a collaborative, solution-oriented approach.
• Define and agree on deliverables and milestones with internal partners and project managers and; continuously prioritize projects and manage scope requirements and revision cycle.
• Confidently facilitate global communications with internal research teams and design peers to meet business needs.
• Maintain up-to-date awareness of our business environment and what is required to be successful.

• Risk Management

• Foresee issues on projects before they occur and raise risks to appropriate parties.
• Mitigate risk on projects by creating contingency plans and recommending solutions, proactively engaging in problem solving.

• Other Responsibilities

• Work closely with peers to resolve problems effectively and positively.
• Identify and elevate any inefficient department processes to manager. Recommend solutions.
• Balance design and adherence to admin tasks to ensure high productivity regardless of workflow.
• Actively participate in meetings and lead sections of presentations when required.
• Proactively seek and embrace formal and informal feedback, incorporating into everyday work and performance.
• Execute new developments in design software as required.
• Must be able to design a high-volume of projects effectively.
• Related duties as assigned
  
  

What You’ll Need

• College degree in a graphic design or closely-related discipline
• 3+ years’ experience in a graphic design role
• Portfolio demonstrating excellent design sense with strong typography and publication design skills
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite
• Demonstrated understanding AP standard proofreading marks

• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to perform gracefully under pressure and meet inflexible and shifting deadlines
• Superior customer service ethic and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, and time management skills
• Willingness to be flexible to project needs; availability to work long days and weekends as needed
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Must be flexible to changing conditions and aware of project deadlines independent of manager, peer, and client reminders
• Must be able to simultaneously focus on big picture, details, and driving results
• Must exhibit teamwork with internal clients and other members of the creative team, take direction yet make decisions independently 
  
  

Who You Are

• Exceptional attention to detail, capable of delivering error free content
• Strong communicator (verbal and written)
• Able to perform gracefully under pressure and provide guidance on inflexible and shifting deadlines
• Superior customer service ethic and interpersonal skills
• Organized and multitasker
• Flexible and aware that some deadlines are accomplished after hours or in weekends.
• Change agent and team oriented
• Big picture thinker
• Independent and thought partner
  
  

What We Offer

• In addition to an outstanding work environment with advancement potential, Gartner creative associates enjoy exceptional compensation and benefits, including:
• Competitive base salary
• Bonus based on performance
• And staff friendly time off policies