Lead Visual Designer

MEL | Full-time

Craig Walker is looking for a Lead Visual Designer to guide interdisciplinary teams in the delivery of projects, as well as to elevate the role of visual design in our industry. The job will involve helping clients understand their business from a new perspective and leading designers through the complexity to simple and beautiful design outcomes.

Why join Craig Walker

Craig Walker projects have big reach and impact real people, so you’ll use your leadership skills to help us create world-changing products and services.

We invest in our people. We understand the title you have today is only the starting point and empower you to define your discipline and master your skills.

What visual design had brought to our work

Here are some examples of our visual design that make us proud.

CWR001, Craig Walker — Visual design, created with a specific visual voice and style, did the heavy lifting in selling the paradigm shifts in design explored in our first infrequent publication of essays by design leaders and thinkers.

Future Post Office, Australia Post — To distill the findings from an extensive research project, we developed a publication that clearly communicated the complex issues impacting real Australians and allowed Australia Post to visualise an alternative future state.

We want your leadership and experience

With many years of experience leading multiple projects and teams, you are passionate about planning and structuring projects to drive the best outcomes and to play to the strengths of the team. You lead projects by challenging, critiquing and fostering talent, while building long lasting client relationships.

What you’ll bring

The ability to create programs of work around client problems, bringing together (or bringing in) and leading a team with the strengths and skills necessary to execute dynamic solutions.
An ease and a knack for presenting work to clients, as well as the ability to provide the space and guidance for others to lead a presentation.
Experience in developing and telling a story that resonates with the key people in an audience, and the ability to read a room and adjust your delivery as necessary.
The drive to help a team reach a shared goal and comfort with teaching, influencing and persuading clients and designers, alike.

Things in your tool belt

12+ years’ experience in large organisations, agencies or consultancies, delivering visual design to solve strategic and tactical business problems
Solid experience in working with clients at a lead or senior level, helping them understand their business problems, and showing value that design can bring
Experience leading designers and teams with diverse backgrounds and expertise
A track record of helping designers develop their capabilities
Confidence to point to the parts of projects where you’ve applied your craft and where you’ve helped others apply theirs.

Show us what you’ve got

In your application include examples of work that showcase your expertise in your discipline, and tell us a story about the what, the why and the how of the project, painting a picture of what you brought to it. Make us excited about your work.

Apply now