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 currently a Masters of Architecture II Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Described by her professors as a “maker and a thinker with a strong emotive dimension to her work”, Erin Pellegrino is interested in the human qualities of architecture. Previously, she graduated from Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture in 2014 where her design excellence was recognized with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for her thesis on architecture and perfume. In spring 2013, she was nominated to represent Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture program for the AIANYS student work competition. She has also been awarded both the Seipp Prize and York Prize. Erin has worked for a range of firms and institutions, as a designer at FXFOWLE, a Studio Coach at NuVu Studio in Cambridge, as a Teaching Associate at Cornell University, and as a shop assistant at both the Cornell University and Harvard University fabrication shops. Recently she was awared the Paul M. Heffernan Travel Fellowship, to travel and realize a mountaineering shelter in the Julian Alps. She was also awarded first prize in Redesigning Detroit, a competition for the redesign of a vacant city block in Detroit, Michigan. This was a result of a collaboration with Davide Marchetti, a Roman architect and visiting critic at Cornell University’s Cornell in Rome program. In the summer of 2011, Erin traveled to South Africa as a part of a Design + Build team to construct an early education crèche in Johannesburg. Other projects include a collaboration with Jake Rudin on a renovation of a Richard Meier home in Ithaca, NY, which was awarded a Historic Ithaca Preservation Award as well as construction of a Ceremonial Japanese Tea House in Danby, NY.
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