Senior Designer

Bridgewater manages global investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign governments and central banks, corporate and public pension funds, university endowments and charitable foundations.

**Position Summary** - The Senior Designer will apply design capabilities to ensure brand quality and fidelity across Bridgewater’s communication channels, internal and external. The work will span across visual and UX design, and will involve some strategic work as the team moves to systematize brand expression across the company. - Projects include developing our visual design style guides, crafting internal communications, defining an internal document system, overseeing production of our holiday card and our annual report, maintaining and refreshing our homepage, and designing other web properties and tablet applications. - The list is ever-growing, as exciting new projects land in our hands every day. - The Senior Designer will be responsible for much of the doing of the actual design work, in addition to building the infrastructure within the company to allow everyday employees to be excellent brand ambassadors. - We want a designer with a solid skills foundation, creative spark, refined taste, and also the desire and ability to establish systems that support brand expression across the company for a single brand. - On this team, there is never an ordinary day, never a shortage of interesting work, and the opportunity to make lasting impact is huge. **Responsibilities** - Execute design capabilities on high-level visual design requests for a diverse mixture of projects across creative mediums (print, Web, apps, physical). - Assist with the expansion of the Visual Design Style Guide, act as an arbiter of taste in concert with Ray Dalio (founder), Jeff Taylor (Creative Leader, Core Management) and Creative Director. - Use his/her visual design expertise to raise the communication of Bridgewater’s brand to the next level. - Style Guide Ambassador/Quality Control: Ensure quality and brand fidelity across the company’s visual assets. - Work to create cohesion across Bridgewater’s internal and external communications. Build systems that ensure consistent expression of our brand over time. - Account manager/project lead: Act as advisor and project lead to internal clients (Client Service, Recruiting, Community) and their brand communication projects (annual report, client portal, holiday card, etc.). - Help them formulate a vision that achieves their goals while delivering Bridgewater’s brand with authenticity and impact.

- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing high quality visual and UX experience and command of Adobe Creative Suite. - 3+ years of experience at a top digital agency in visual designer role or similar - Understanding of visual identity and brand applications including typography, traditional and modern print methods, up to date knowledge of industry trends. - Ability to deliver and guide brand direction to third-party creative partners (we work with many great partners across our wide variety of projects) - Broad industry experience and a thorough understanding of what is considered excellent in visual design, in the absolute sense, and a desire to work on a singular brand over an extended period of time - Entrepreneurial experience: Either in the literal sense (in which the person has set up their own shop and had designers working for him/her), or in a style of operating/managing, in which the person has dealt with internal clients, built up a good reputation and built out his/her services and managed creative resources to achieve the goal. - Understanding of general budget management, keeping projects on time and on cost. - Ability to build relationships, understand client vision, and present design options in a systematic way - Experience in building out/executing on a visual design style guide.