Designer, UNSW Bengaluru, India

Position Description

Position Title: Designer

Reports To: Content Marketing Lead

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Summary

The Designer safeguards the visual expression of UNSW Bengaluru across campaigns, digital properties, print, and event environments. Owns design systems, multi-format production, accessibility standards, and vendor handoffs to deliver consistent, high-quality assets for Indian audiences.

Accountabilities

• Produce campaign visuals (display, social, email, landing pages), brochures, and OOH layouts to UNSW brand standards.
• Maintain a compliant modular design system (components, templates, grids) to accelerate production without compromising quality.
• Prepare print-ready files; manage colour profiles, bleeds, and preflight checks; liaise with printers for QA and proofs.
• Implement accessibility guidelines (contrast, legibility, alt text direction) and multilingual adaptations.
• Manage asset rights/credits; store consent forms; enforce version control and archiving policies.
• Create event signage systems and environment branding; coordinate with Events for site plans and wayfinding.
• Support SEO with visual standards for image metadata and file naming for performance, in accordance with UNSW Sydney content taxonomy requirements.
• Conduct periodic visual audits across campus to identify non-compliant usage and remediate.
  
  

Governance, Values & Safety

• Operate within UNSW Sydney's global brand governance model, ensuring all activity is aligned with defined Playbooks, with appropriate approvals and compliance to defined frameworks and processes.
• Actively demonstrate alignment with the UNSW Code of Conduct and Values.
• Comply with all health, safety, and wellbeing policies and take reasonable care to ensure actions do not impact the psychosocial or physical health and safety of self or others.
  
  

Skill & Experience

• Bachelor's in Design/ Visual Communication or equivalent portfolio / level of knowledge gained through any other combination of education, training, and experience.
• Advanced Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma; working knowledge of motion graphics.
• Experience across print, out-of-home and digital production in India; strong QA quality assurance discipline.
• Strong art direction and creative skills that demonstrate an understanding of branding, customer/ user experience and how best to communicate complex information in a compelling way.
• Well-developed interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work individually and collaboratively across a matrix organisation including experience with Agile Ways of Working and agile tools (e.g. Wrike, Trello, Jira) and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to apply judgement, creativity and flexibility to ensure outputs are delivered on time and on brief.
• An understanding of and commitment to UNSW's aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Knowledge of health & safety (psychosocial and physical) responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training.
  
  

Key relationships

• Brand Marketing Manager
• Copywriter; Video Editor; Social & PR
• Event Executives; Print/Out of Home media vendors