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Position: Graphic Designer
Beam Living, a Blackstone portfolio company, is a vertically integrated Real Estate management company that creates, manages, and supports communities throughout New York City.
We are focused on being both a great place to work and to live. We are part of a very competitive NYC residential real estate market and need a very talented team to deliver on our promises to residents and to communicate to the world why they should live in our communities.
Are you sick of boring corporate design job descriptions? Is it soul destroying for you thinking, “I’m a creative person and I cannot think of anything worse than being trapped in a big machine – but I also want to do big, important, challenging work?” Well, have we got the job for you.
First, let’s get the context out of the way. Our business focused on making real estate more valuable. But for us, it’s more than that. It’s people first, community always. It’s a life-filled career, not just a career-filled life. It’s doing good work, with good humans, and making a difference. It’s excellence in all its forms. Ultimately, we create great places to work, live, and grow. We do that by focusing on leaving people – and places – better than we found them.
Design and visual story telling is very important to us, and that’s where this role fits in. You would be a key member of our Marketing team, working on branding and design materials for our current New York City portfolio of apartment communities – including the country’s largest apartment community and NYC’s tallest rental building. Let’s call that the bread and butter, but the work is no light snack. Each of these places have their own visual identities, so if you’re looking for a job where you get to constantly create, iterate, and execute new brands – this is it.
If you think this is somewhere you’d fit in, we’d love to have a conversation. Blow us away. Show us your best work. Do what good design should do – tell a story and make us feel something.
Read on for the standard stuff our colleagues recommend we put in a JD. We hope to hear from you!
Only read further if you are:
- Nice
- Humble
- Honest
- Relentless
- Someone who cares about building a great place for people to live and work.
You should be:
- A passionate leader who believes that helping others win is a noble cause and that energetic hands on leadership is the only course of action.
- A creator who enjoys the challenge of solving complex problems.
- A lover of design that is does enough to be functional while still being beautiful while still understanding that each project is different with different requirements.
- An executor who is passionately committed to excellence and will relentlessly pursue the team’s goals.
- A creative who believes that if we do something we should do it better than anyone.
- Gumby. Things change.
What you will do:
- Developing concepts and designs for collateral materials, including print (direct mail, ads, property signage, postcards, brochures, invitations, etc.) and digital (MailChimp, Eventbrite, website, banner ads, social media posts, etc.), as needed.
- Maintain brand identity and visual strategy by ensuring consistency across all designs.
- Conceptualize and design marketing collateral in support of the brand strategy.
- Understand user interface and experience design pertaining to websites.
- Responsible for all photo editing and resizing for print and digital.
- Create brand guidelines marketing as needed.
- Managing and maintaining graphic files and archives, including logos, photos, sponsor materials, etc.
- Proficiency with responsive web design and email campaign management through various online distribution services.
What you should have:
- 1-3 years of graphic design and visual communications experience with a proven track record of creative problem solving.
- Ability to conceptualize creative and original design ideas.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite; both print and digital applications.
- PowerPoint intermediate skills also required.
- Creative data visualization/data storytelling experience a huge plus
- Website and video development experience a plus.
- Must be able to multi-task and prioritize time to complete projects.
- Must be flexible and able to handle change in a fast-paced environment.
- Thorough understanding of the print development and production process.
- Strong written and verbal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Self-motivated, self-directed and capable of working independently.
- High degree of integrity.
- It would be especially great if you are also funny/a fun human being.
What we offer:
We know that if we take care of our team everything else will fall into place. We aren’t perfect, but we will try to set very clear expectations, always let you know where you stand, and do everything in our power to help you get where you want to go. We don’t have any “best place to work” awards, but that will change soon. Just watch.
Competitive pay that is commensurate with relevant experience and a full slate of benefits that even includes things like paid parental leave. We have a CEO that will make fun of himself and encourage you to tell him when he is wrong.
If any of that sounds interesting, then maybe we are a fit. Life is too short to work with people you don’t like. So whatever you do, don’t make that mistake.
A few of the people you will work with:
Noah
Kyle
Tamara
City Life Just Got Happier
Beam Living believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company. However, it is not enough to just BE diverse, diversity must be embraced! We want you to bring your whole self to work, which is why Beam Celebrates how diversity contributes to a welcoming inclusive environment where everyone belongs.
To further our commitment to fostering an environment that welcomes and embraces diversity, all employment decisions at Beam Living are based on individual qualifications, business needs and job requirements without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
