Communications Designer

About Sony Music Entertainment

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

The Communications Designer position at Ceremony of Roses is a new role responsible for designing both internal and external communication and strategy materials. This role supports the Global Creative Strategy department in their efforts to provide on-brand, thoughtful, strategic, well-designed materials for a variety of communication and strategy needs. The overarching priority of this position is to improve Ceremony’s suite of communication tools via high visual and verbal standards across all internal and external brand communication touchpoints.

A key component of this role is to develop presentations and ancillary materials based on a variety of inputs, needs, and strategies for all Ceremony regions and imprints.

• Internal Communications Presentation Development & Design
  Create a variety of presentations for All Teams meetings, COR and Sony Music executive updates, and miscellaneous requests. Maintain strict and high design standards, while sorting through and displaying complex information. Update and edit copy or clarity of communication. Continually develop and refine design language against a high creative standard. Own the delivery of materials to internal groups.

• Artist Update and Communication Deck Design

  Manage requests from account managers for non-strategic artist presentations. This includes, but is not limited to: assortment planning, artist activity recaps, and adjustment of existing artist communications for specific needs. Own the delivery of these materials.

• Presentation Template Creation

  Codify current deck design language, creating templates for a variety of presentation needs. These templates will be created in Keynote and will need a variety of Slide Layouts and preset Type Styles. Deliver thoughtful templates that adhere to COR’s design standards.

• Presentation Template Maintenance

  Work with stakeholders across the company to address new presentation design needs, distilling those into new template assets as needed. Field inquiries and help requests for template usage, and adjust templates based on feedback.

• Strategy and Pitch Deck Design Support

  Assist VP in maintaining design language for Artist Strategies and Business Development pitches. Take responsibility of “last mile” design cleanup, stakeholder edits, and asset placement, when required.

• A designer with 5+ years relevant experience in graphics and communications/brand/deck design, including time at creative/brand agencies
• A hyper detail-oriented strategic designer and a creative, bright individual who is business savvy and demonstrates good judgment, with the ability to execute projects from concept to completion.
• An agile creative thinker and doer, with ability find existing and new solutions to novel strategy, communication, and design problems, and swiftly understand new genres and industries.
• Up to date on cultural, visual, and fashion trends, with a robust understanding of the intersection of fashion and music
• Experienced in (or aware of) apparel design and/or production methods.
• Able to edit copy from a wide variety of stakeholders into a consistent, clear, on-brand tone.
• Expert in presentation design tools, including template creation from layout to type styles to grids (Keynote, PowerPoint)
• Fluent in design tools, with the ability to design, edit, and format (Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Acrobat)
• Possess strong global cultural understanding and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines and prioritize projects and workloads in a fast-paced, demanding environment.

• You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to channel your passion every day  
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork empowering you to bring your best 
• An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K + employer matching 
• Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans 
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.  
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next  
• Time off for a winter recess

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