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SENIOR DESIGNER

Harvard Business Review Group is looking for a Senior Designer to join our team - a crucial engine for design at HBR as we transform from a predominantly print publishing group to a multi-platform Publisher embracing opportunities across media. Senior Designer is a role for an experienced, talented and capable designer who is reaching mastership of conceptual design and execution. The Senior Designer works on leading the feature efforts in HBR and taking on independent HBRG design projects. The Senior Designer engages closely with editors and the design team to deliver fabulous design outcomes based on the Art Direction established by the Design Leaders. RESPONSIBILITIES ARE: • Contributing to Design team by generating strong concepts and managing their creative execution. • Enthusiastically, articulately engaging in discussion of work in meetings and crit sessions. • Working with and guiding more junior design staff, to build and maintain design quality. • Freely generating ideas and sharp concepts that deliver on HBR's promise of intelligent quality. • Setting a standard for accuracy and layout quality. • Engaging in rigorous discussion with editors about the presentation of ideas to our readers. • Reviewing incoming proofs. • Creatively transferring print ideas to digital platforms. • Engaging in digital project execution (web/Ipad/Mobile), broadening HBRG design skills across platforms.

Designer

Harvard Business Review Group is looking for a Designer to join our team - a crucial engine for design at HBR as we transform from a predominantly print publishing group to a multi-platform Publisher embracing opportunities across media. This role is perfect for a talented, energetic designer with a demonstrated ability to produce excellent ideas, typography and layouts. A Designer works under the direction of the Senior Designer and Design Leaders to execute and deliver high-quality design work on deadline. While mainly working on executing design concepts and developing options for HBR designs, they will also work on a broad range of print and digital design projects across our platforms, including web-design, interactive designs, book jacket design, and design for new products. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Contributing to Design team by enthusiastically engaging in discussion of work and suggesting ideas. • Producing concept options for presentation. • Designing layouts for HBR Magazine to finished-art stage. • Developing briefs, commissioning and managing the quality of illustration and photography for HBR. • Working with Indd files to convert to interactive folios for Ipad. • Designing Infographics. • Taking on web-design and digital design projects. • Working on other design projects within HBRG.