Job Description
Publicis Groupe is a world leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of data, creativity, media and technology. Our connected platform of companies and capabilities is more than an operational framework, it’s a cultural model we've built to unite our people in a collaborative way of thinking and working. Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 80,000+ talents across 100+ countries globally. In Australia, our powerhouse of marketing capabilities stretches across creative agencies (Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Publicis Worldwide), media agencies (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry), Razorfish, Digitas, Epsilon, Arc, Prodigious, PMX, PR (Herd MSL). We also have Publicis Sapient driving digital business transformation for our clients.
Spread across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, PXP is our Groupe’s production offering, a collection of 50+ artists and makers finding new ways to deliver greatness together. We collaborate with creative agencies, studio partners and specialist talent to grow their production capability and build Australia’s largest and most desirable production ecosystem.
Off the back of new business growth, we are excited to announce an incredible opportunity for a Retail Designer (Multimedia) to join our PXP team.
Job description:
This role plays a key part in Publicis Groupe’s connected ecosystem for one of our major clients, and will be exclusively focused on the delivery of their retail business. You’ll be part of a tight-knit PXP production team, onsite at our City Road office, collaborating with our broader teams across Saatchi & Saatchi, Spark Foundry and Digitas.
The primary focus of the Graphic Designer is to deliver multimedia retail design across print and digital deliverables. You’ll get to collaborate closely with creative, client service and producer teams to design templated retail campaigns, and develop finished art in preparation for pre press and digital ready states.
Reporting into the Head of Multimedia Operations, you’ll be responsible for spearheading a variety of projects from smaller, quick turnaround to larger scale campaign rollouts.
Day to day in this role, you’ll get to:
- Work closely with our creative leadership & creative teams, producers and vendors to bring all cross-channel campaign elements to life
- Bring your experience across all design assets including digital, social, UX, print, branding and finished art
- Deliver finished art for a full range of print and digital formats
- Be responsible for typesetting and basic retouching
- Be responsible for large campaigns across multiple media deliverables, and bring the ability to decipher large Material Instructions spreadsheets
- Contribute to conceptual ideas from time to time as required
- Be responsible for taking and questioning briefs effectively from the account team
- Create design layouts and illustrations according to guidelines set out by the agency
- Create and modify fonts according to guidelines
- Identify style, technique, and medium best suited to organisation promotion strategies
- Be responsible for building out HTML files
- Craft best practice UX from wireframes to visual screen layouts
The person we’re looking for:
- Your #1 mission is to champion best-practice design craft across BAU and beyond, alongside our creative teams
- A self-starter and a creative thinker, someone who’s not afraid to explore unconventional design strategies
- A minimum of 3 years’ commercial experience as an integrated multimedia designer/finished artist working across large scale campaigns
- Fluency in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator CC and Figma
- Understands responsive web design with an understanding of a mobile-first approach and cross device design (web/mobile)
- Working knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
- Strong attention to detail
- Has the ability to work fast, work to deadlines and manage time effectively
Other desirable skills:
- Knowledge of graphic animation, video editing, photography and photography editing desirable but not essential
- An understanding and interest in web based animation techniques (from storyboarding to build) would also be a bonus
- Recent track record in producing effective digital marcomms including responsive and interactive campaign sites/landing pages and digital display (standard and rich interactive formats), with mobile app design a bonus
- Actively keeps up to date with the development and future direction of HCD and digital user interface design
What we will offer you:
Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at www.publicisgroupeanz.com
Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:
- A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting Physical, Mindful and Financial wellbeing.
- A creative, lively and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us!”
- Access to our Global AI Platform, Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform Marcel Classes.
- A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.
- A committed Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Ecologique committees.
- Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave (after 2 years of service).
- Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
- Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks (based on tenure) paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap and Cub Care leave.
- Access to counsellors, psychologists and professionals through Sonder - an all-in-on digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.
- Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation and the Australian Disability Network.
If you don’t tick every box in this description, please don’t rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity, rather than ticking boxes.
Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. More than just words, these are part of our DNA. At Publicis Groupe we are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people; regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status and religious affiliation. We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate in. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions.
Uniqueness is powerful; without it we wouldn’t be where we are today. So be you – we like it that way.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those that require additional support throughout the application process. If you need any assistance or adjustments, please contact us via recruitment@publicisgroupe.com - your personal information will be kept confidential.
