Senior Designer

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm consistently ranked among the top firms in the world. The success of our firm is largely determined by our commitment to hire and develop the very best and brightest, creating a team that provides our clients with the highest quality of work and service. We are driven by our core values: respect, innovation, and collaboration.  

The Senior Designer is an integral part of Latham’s Brand & Communications team and will be responsible for applying core design principles to complex, strategic projects ensuring all work is aligned to the firm’s brand and design guidelines, while leading and executing multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery while upholding high standards for visual presentation, craft, and attention to detail. This role will be located in our New York office. 

Other key responsibilities include:

• Initiating design projects by gathering essential client information and relevant research, ideating broadly, developing effective creative solutions, and clearly articulating design rationale
• Approaching creative challenges with a systems mindset and anticipating the broader implications of design decisions on the overarching brand ecosystem
• Developing concepts and executions for digital and marketing deliverables, including identity systems, UX design for microsites, web pages, and website modules, social media, strategic presentations, newsletters, collateral, motion design, themed events, and other branded experiences
• Guiding internal clients and teams on design strategy and the application of brand guidelines, contributing to their evolution, and crafting templates, system elements, and other visual assets
• Coordinating project workflows and communications to meet deadlines
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains 
  

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Possess exceptional design skills, including identity development, typography, complex grids and layout, color theory and application, motion design, and photography and illustration editing and art direction
• Display outstanding presentation skills, the ability to effectively position creative work and articulate the rationale behind design decisions to navigate subjective feedback
• Exhibit knowledge and skills in designing for digital and multimedia projects as well as traditional design (e.g., print)
  

And have:

• A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent in graphic design or a related field
• A minimum of seven (7) years of experience as a designer in a branding agency, design firm, or in-house communications department
• Experience in professional services or business-to-business, preferably
• Experience with digital asset management systems, email marketing systems, digital and social marketing, and UX, preferably

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham’s comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional Development programs
• Employee discounts
• And more!

Additionally, we have a range of diversity programming including Global Affinity Groups. These groups provide a firmwide platform to share experiences and advice as well as an opportunity to participate in a supportive network with common interests to help make life at the firm even better.

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Latham & Watkins is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, sustainability, and pro bono legal services. We draw from a remarkable wealth of talent to create one of the world's leading law firms, and advance these commitments through the work of our Global Citizenship department. Our lawyers, paralegals, and professional staff worldwide comprise a rich mixture of different races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, cultures, and primary languages. Our diversity makes us who we are. 

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