Design Associate / Sr. Design Associate (Visual Design and Research)
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
- GBLs Design Associate (Visual design and Research) will be responsible for developing communication and design outputs with existing and new stakeholders around GBL s key research areas.
- Prepare visual collaterals in the form of illustrations, animations and audio-visuals.
- Design engaging case studies and training modules by gathering requirements and research materials.
- Generate clear ideas, concepts and creative assets from start to finish
- The role will require imaginative, creative, and collaborative talent to identify design directions that meet research standards in an evidence-based research ecosystem
- The Design Associate will work closely with a growing team of designers, economists, development practitioners and labor industry experts to meet both internal and external design requirements.
Qualification & Experience:
- Passionate about tackling complex social and organization level challenges.
- Hands-on experience with digital design & development of original creative assets.
- Proficient in creating illustrations, layouts and visual interfaces from scratch
- Proven ability to engage with research and data, and skills to effectively transform them into visualizations.
- A graduate/post-graduate degree in design
- Preferred Specialization: Visual communication design, digital product/ UX design
- Expert level skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After effects, Figma and other relevant design tools (bonus: Tableau and data visualization tools).
- A strong portfolio demonstrating your visual communication work and design research skills.
- Comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders, including groups that may not have previous experience of strategic use of design in the VUCA (Vulnerable, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and written, visual, and verbal communication skills.
Roles & Responsibilities:
At GBL each one of us is involved in multiple projects and works efficiently through trans-disciplinary collaboration. You will be involved in developing solutions in highly complex ecosystems where you will be involved in collaboratively developing sustainable, scalable and replicable interventions.
The nature of intervention can be:
- Digital or physical Products
- Process design & innovation
- Systems and nudges for behavior change
- Service ecosystem
- Communications to convey our findings and value propositions
- And beyond
- Develop design case studies and publications, disseminating them to a global community of development practitioners.
- Create compelling pitches for internal and external-facing design projects.
- Lead internal design capacity building sessions through design sprints & workshops.
- Understand project priorities and requirements, taking ownership of timelines and work output.
- Carry out secondary research independently as per research plans
- Engage with complex ideas and discourse, transforming them into compelling communication collateral.
- Contribute to the creation of field research plans and carry out user research on field as per GBL s ethical guidelines and standards.
- Independently work with internal and external stakeholders to complete a task to the required standard and deadline.
- Collaboratively manage the design portfolio
What should you be comfortable with
- A dynamic environment with competing priorities.
- Working in a team with shared responsibilities.
- Independently coordinating with coworkers to accomplish goals.
- Being resourceful in new environments and scenarios.
- Problem-solving in high-pressure environments.
- Adapting your approach, being focused on the problem and not being stuck to one idea or way of solving a problem.
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