Senior Graphic Designer

The Museum of Modern Art is currently accepting applications for a Senior Graphic Designer. The role serves as part of MoMA’s internal design studio, supporting the Museum’s brand and identity, exhibitions, marketing campaigns, and all other communications across the Museum. 

Responsibilities:

• Creates compelling and strategic design solutions for brand and communications across all touchpoints.
• Plays a key role in developing concepts and creative campaign solutions to support Museum-wide marketing, membership acquisition and communications goals.
• Designs and produces final marketing and collateral materials for print, digital, and out-of-home.
• Supports the creative team on all stages of exhibition identity design from conceptualizing, designing to production and installation, including label creation for all exhibitions.
• Designs ambitiously, with a mastery in design fundamentals: typography, composition, color, hierarchy and balance
• Provides all necessary creative support to more senior creatives  in all stages of the design process for a variety of projects.
• Creates presentations and other review materials as needed.
• Works cross-functionally and collaborates with key partners in internal and external teams.
• Expedites and troubleshoots all project-related issues needing immediate attention.
• Takes responsibility to meet deadlines and be punctual.
• Performs any other duties reasonably related to the functions described above.

Requirements:  

• Bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design and five to seven years in a design and marketing related position.
• Excellent design ability with thorough knowledge of print, digital, exhibition design, marketing (print, digital, and social), motion and animation.
• A keen understanding of fine typography.
• Strong understanding of brand systems with the experience and ability to provide design solutions with a high level of craft and attention to detail.
• Ability to storyboard and think systematically about motion design across a range of deliverables.
• Ability to take initiative and be self-motivated.
• Curious and passionate about design, with a keen awareness of the evolving landscape of available tools, technologies, resources, and trends.
• Articulate, with excellent presentation skills.
• Documented experience with putting together presentations and pitches.
• Thorough knowledge of the full Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Knowledge of After Effects and ability to animate motion graphics.

Reports to: Associate Director of Design, and other senior titles as assigned

Salary range: Minimum of $67,393 to $80,000 per annum.

Application instructions: To apply, please visit MoMA Jobs.  Applicants should submit a formatted CV/resume in the form of a PDF and an online or PDF portfolio with applicable work. 

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement: Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at the Museum, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, unemployment status, familial status, domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking victim status, caregiver status, arrest or conviction record to the extent required by applicable law, credit history, or any other protected category as established by applicable law, including the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”).

This is a unionized position at MoMA with covered employees represented by Local 2110, UAW, AFL-CIO.