We’re looking for a Senior Designer

Curative is a creative agency inspiring positive social change. Every day, we grapple with complex social issues and find new ways to shift attitudes, generate action, and amplify the voices of communities across Aotearoa.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Designer to join our team.

Designers play a key role at Curative; translating insights and ideas into a reality. We’re looking for a Senior Designer to work within a vibrant creative team to help strengthen our design offering and bring about work with meaningful impact.

No two projects are the same at Curative, and an ability to adapt across various mediums, subject areas and tonalities is important. As too is a creative thinker who can operate outside of traditional graphic worlds, bringing a contemporary aesthetic that might push the expectations for the sector.

As a Senior Designer you’ll be able to develop conceptual frameworks that can form the groundwork for your creative. You’ll be able to present these confidently to the creative director, strategy and project teams, and in an engaging way in client presentations.

Collaboration is key at Curative, so you’ll work within a wider creative team, working alongside other designers and mentoring younger team members. You won’t be afraid to get your hands dirty, working across a varying scale of project and are excited by exploring new opportunities. 

You’ll be able to confidently design contemporary brand systems and be able to articulate these both conceptually and pragmatically through brand presentations and brand guidelines. You’ll be able to translate these systems across various media for a variety of audience needs, including an understanding of design and UX standards for online material.  

At Curative, we believe in growth, so an interest in your personal creative development is important. Explorations of, or experience in other media such as web, film, motion design, photography, 3D or illustration will be seen as advantageous and encouraged.

In addition to being a great designer, We’re looking for people who are: 

• committed to honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao Māori
• confident working alongside Māori, Pacific Peoples, young people, rainbow and disability communities
• clear communicators with extraordinary empathy 
• passionate about bringing ideas to life, and telling stories in creative ways through different media

This role is full time, based in Auckland, with a flexible January 2025 start date. Salary dependent on experience and by negotiation.  

To apply for this role, please send your CV, portfolio of recent work and a cover letter outlining your experience and why you believe you’re a good fit for Curative to hello@curative.co.nz 

Applications close Saturday 30 November.