Graphic Designer, Brand Partnerships

Company And Culture

Complex is the definitive platform for global youth culture and music lifestyle, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge content, commerce and live experiences with unparalleled scale. Through innovative content, Complex tells stories of music, streetwear and style, sports, art and beyond. Its content engages in a dynamic conversation with the audience, reflecting and shaping the zeitgeist of convergence culture. A powerful media juggernaut paired with a curated marketplace, Complex is redefining the way fans interact with their favorite brands and artists and reshaping the future of digital culture and commerce.

Why We're Hiring

Our team is growing and looking for a strong Designer to support the Complex Brand Partnerships department. You’ll work within the Branded Art and Design team cross functionally with branded content (editorial and video), account management, product and experiential to ideate and execute deliverables. We offer a full range of products—from content to live events—to our clients and need someone with a strong technical skillset and ability to work from concept ideation to finished execution bringing a wide range of deliverables to life.

We’re seeking a well rounded utility player with a multi-disciplinary approach and deep expertise within innovative graphic design, social design, display media, printed collateral, merch and experiential concepting. This role is ideal for a creative visionary who understands how to transform cultural insights and partner brand guidelines into iconic visual expressions across mediums—from digital to physical. This individual is self-motivated, highly collaborative, and relentlessly curious, consistently sparking new ideas, pushing boundaries, and elevating design and creative across a range of platforms.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate: Working with design leaders, art directors, account managers, experiential and product to create a vision and roadmap for product execution
• Executing projects: Taking projects from concept to launch, creating within existing workflow systems while marrying brand guidelines and the Complex visual ID
• Display and Social Design: Ability to translate larger campaign initiatives and creative into display and social packages
• Experiential Design: Work with design leadership on executing physical brand experiences—from bespoke pop-up activations to large-scale experiences like ComplexCon
• Apparel: Design comps of limited-edition merch drops, and collabs bringing fashion sensibility to product storytelling
• Executing: Creating designs and product solutions for any given task. Flawlessly execute compositions, layouts, and renders
• Presenting: Ability to speak to design work to internal design leadership
• Expert in latest Mac software: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Google Slides, Figma, ReadyMag, SketchUp or other experiential 3D render softwareImpressive, wide-ranging portfolio (brand, print, event, editorial and product is a plus)
• Working knowledge of current AI render platforms

Who You Are

• Minimum 4-6 years of graphic design experience at an agency, culturally-adjacent media publisher, or in-house brand
• Passion for forward-thinking design across digital, print, experiential, and product
• Voracious consumer of pop culture and working knowledge of trends in music, events, streetwear, and fashion at large 
• Well-organized with strict attention to detail in quick turnarounds
• Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, interpersonalAble to support design leadership with thoughtful executions
• Obsess about the details and push the creative until its reached the best execution
• Highly responsible, self-motivated, and able to thrive in an energetic, fast-paced, high growth, entrepreneurial environment
• Must have strong time management skills and the ability to pivot from project to project juggling multiple at a time

What We Offer

• Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance
• Healthcare FSA 
• Dependent Care FSA 
• Commuter Benefits FSA 
• Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
• Paid Parental leave
• 401k with 4% match
• Pet Insurance
• Legal and Identity Theft Plans
• Vacation time and sick days