Senior Visual Designer - New York, NY | TCS Job

Job Description: Senior Visual Designer, TCS Interactive, New York, NY

We're hiring a senior designer for the New York studio — the person whose visual work makes a client feel something before they read a word.

TCS Interactive is building a design studio inside one of the largest engineering companies in the world. Fortune 100 clients, already in the building. Creative leadership already in place. The work is early enough that what this studio becomes hasn't been decided yet.

WHO YOU'D WORK WITH

The studio's creative leadership team is new here, and came from the New York agencies you'd expect — R/GA, AKQA, Razorfish, BBH, Monks.

Between them: work awarded at Cannes, D&AD, the One Show, the Clios, the Effies, the Webbys and the Emmys. A global healthcare rebrand across consumer health, pharma and medtech. Trading platforms people move real money through. The launch of a major streaming service.

WHY DESIGNERS TAKE THIS JOB

You'd be early. Not startup-early, where the money runs out. Early at a studio with a Fortune 100 client list already in the building and an engineering organization with the capability to build ideas most studios can only propose. What this studio becomes, and what it looks like, hasn't been decided yet. You'd be one of a handful of people who gets to decide it. In five years, when the work is known, the fingerprints on the original are yours. You'd learn here. Your work gets reviewed by the studio's creative leadership — properly, in a real critique, by people whose own work has been recognized at the highest level. Real critique takes time and senior attention, and both are set aside for it here. Your ideas ship. TCS designs and builds. There's no handoff to a build partner, no point where someone else's internal team takes it from here. The thing you conceived and designed goes live, at scale, to a very large number of people. The category is wide open. Banking, healthcare, retail, transportation — systems that enormous numbers of people use every day, and that have not had the design attention they deserve. We have a real mandate, with budget behind it, to make work in that space that competes at D&AD, Cannes, Awwwards and the Apple Design Awards. Closing that gap is the job. 

WHAT YOU'D DO 

Own how the work looks. You'll own type, color, layout, motion, iconography and illustration across the entire visual surface of the products and the pitches. You're not skinning wireframes. You're in the room when the structure gets decided. Make the pitch work. New business gets won because someone saw a prototype and wanted it to exist. Often that will be your prototype, and you'll present it yourself, in plain language, to people who decide things.

Move fast with the tools, then slow down where it matters. Use generative tools for exploration, mood, pre-viz, variation and production, and get to more directions in less time. Then the part where craft takes over. Build systems that don't sand off the interesting parts. Design systems at enterprise scale tend to flatten everything into sameness. Hold the line against that. Design for people who don't see, read, or move the way you do. Accessibility is part of the craft, not a remediation pass at the end. Make the people around you better. Crits, portfolio reviews, mentoring whoever comes in after you. You'll be senior to someone sooner than you think. 

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