Senior Designer - SYP Partners

Written By Erin Pellegrino

Senior Designer

San Francisco Office

In tight partnership with Strategists, Creative Directors, Program Managers, and our clients, you conceive, develop and execute the experiences of discovery, learning, interaction and action that define and mobilize successful transformations.

You are strategic, conceptual, and executional, and work across all mediums, even if you bring a primary orientation.

If the majority of the points below resonate with you, please reach out to say hello.

You:

  • Have 6-7+ years of experience at an agency, design studio, editorial or in-house design environment

  • Are able to think poignantly and coherently, create inspiring expression and articulate thinking and ideas

  • Are a self starter

  • Are equipped with a strong foundation in aesthetics (typography, photography, film, composition, color, and hierarchy)

  • Are interested in the complexity of organizations and the systems-thinking required to work within this complexity

  • Thrive in ambiguity without a design brief

  • Generate an abundance of ideas and expressions without coveting your ideas

  • Are able to draw at all times from a wide range of visual and cultural references to define moods and ideas

About SYPartners

SYPartners is a transformation company—a group of tireless optimists aspiring to make massive positive impact in business and society.

Using the tools of strategy and design, we partner with executives to transform their businesses. We work alongside leaders tackling societal issues. And we build products that help individuals and teams unlock their potential.

We are based in San Francisco and New York and are a founding member of kyu—a collective of best-in-class creative firms.

For a fast-paced, creatively-charged firm that pushes the boundaries of possibility, check us out at www.sypartners.com

Erin Pellegrino

Erin Pellegrino is a strategist, educator, and registered architect who believes design is a powerful catalyst for change—a process of engaging with problems, opportunities, hopes, and world-shaping ideas. Through Matter, her design and fabrication studio, she transforms visionary concepts into extraordinary spaces, objects, and experiences that push standards and boundaries.

She is the co-founder of Out of Architecture, a career resource community and talent services agency, and co-author of ‘Out of Architecture: The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice’ (Routledge, 2022). Her commitment to expanding design’s impact extends to academia, where she has taught at Harvard, Cornell, The New School, CUNY, and The New Jersey Institute of Technology. At NJIT she co-leads the design/build program focusing on public interest design.

Her work has earned global recognition, including an Autodesk BuildSpace Fellowship, AIA New England Design Honor Award, Core77 Design Award in Built Environment, two Architizer A-plus awards, a Paul M. Heffernan International Fellowship, and a nomination for the EU Mies Van der Rohe Award. She holds an M.Arch II from Harvard Graduate School of Design, a B.Arch from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology.

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