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Design Lead/Principal Designer

Today
Sydney Full-day Full-time

Description:

We're looking for an impact-driven designer who wants to invent beyond the obvious—who understands how strategy, technology and design come together to enable creativity.

About The Role

At Today, our designers work across all aspects of the design process: uncovering user needs through research, defining product value propositions, creating rapid prototypes, and bringing brands and experiences to life with beautiful graphic and interaction design.

You'll blend visual, experience and interaction design to create useful, usable and engaging brands, products, digital services and experiences for clients looking to have a positive impact on the world.

As part of our growing Gadigal team, you'll also be integral to building our presence in Sydney through your design expertise, and growing our practice.

In previous roles, you might have been called a Digital Designer, a Product Designer or an Interaction Designer. We're looking for someone who is comfortable doing and leading the spectrum of design from research through to digital execution.

Your focus

  • Draw from a depth of design practice across graphic design, UX, digital design, creative ideation and prototyping
  • Bring clarity and focus to the problems we solve with design
  • Facilitate participatory, generative design processes with end-users and clients
  • Plan and run testing at many levels of fidelity: from early concepts to prototypes to product usability
  • Create systems of design for small and large-scale websites, apps and other digital products
  • Unpick complex UX and lA problems, creating radically simple experiences
  • Contribute to project approaches to win new work as part of business development
  • Grow existing partnerships and build new ones by delivering work that helps our clients create positive impact for people and planet


Requirements

You will demonstrate

  • A portfolio with a proven track record of graphic and digital design, including thoughtful UX and beautiful visual design
  • 6+ years experience in graphic/digital/product/experience design
  • 2+ years experience working in a design agency environment
  • A demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at once with complex stakeholder requirements
  • Demonstrated experience running design research activities like concept testing, prototyping and usability testing
  • Experience contributing to proposals that win new work


You will also bring

  • A highly creative approach to problem-solving
  • Experience in client management, facilitation, and storytelling
  • A growth mindset, collaborative spirit, and an action bias
  • An optimistic, humorous, and a playful approach to your work
  • Alignment to our values, treating others with kindness, empathy and respect


Benefits

About us

We're Today, Australia's most awarded social impact agency. We use design and technology to make change happen at pace and scale.

We work across mental health, climate, justice, housing, education, and more—tackling society's most important challenges in partnership with the people they affect most.

Our team includes strategists, researchers, designers, technologists, and makers of all kinds, and we work across the country with people from many backgrounds and experiences.

Learn more about our values and work at today.design/careers.

Our commitment

We're an inclusive employer. We actively seek applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers, and the LGBTIQA+ community.

We understand that people don't always apply unless they meet every criterion. If this role speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

Why Today?

  • You'll work on meaningful, community-focused projects
  • We offer a flexible, inclusive work environment and generous leave policies
  • You'll be supported to grow through a strong career framework and learning culture
  • We prioritise your well-being with a thoughtful benefits program
  • You'll help shape a growing business with big ambitions


The details

  • Full-time role
  • Our preference is you're based in Sydney/Gadigal Lands
  • Hybrid, but the expectation is the majority of your week is in-studio
  • Be legally able to work in Australia without restriction
1 May 2025;   from: linkedin.com

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