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JDK seeks a Senior Designer to join the team in our Manhattan studio. We thrive on the creativity and energy that come from a ceaseless desire to shape what’s new and what’s next. If you are a senior graphic designer that works well under deadlines, both on your own and within a team, your presentation skills are polished, and you need an environment where you can push your work, your clients, and yourself, we want to see your portfolio. Senior Designers should have at least 5 years of proven design experience, along with strong conceptual and presentation capabilities. Demonstrated skills as a design leader required.

JDK seeks a Senior Designer to join the team in our Burlington studio. We thrive on the creativity and energy that come from a ceaseless desire to shape what’s new and what’s next. If you are a senior graphic designer that works well under deadlines, both on your own and within a team, your presentation skills are polished, and you need an environment where you can push your work, your clients, and yourself, we want to see your portfolio. Senior Designers should have at least 5 years of proven design experience, along with strong conceptual and presentation capabilities. Demonstrated skills as a design leader required.

Immerse yourself in a collaborative environment. Embrace multidisciplinary design challenges. Work with an international mix of forward-thinking people and brands. JDK Design seeks graphic designers with at least 2 years of experience and an intimate knowledge of the youth-oriented action-sport or video-gaming culture for both our Burlington, VT and New York City studios. Our designers have mind-blowing creative talent, a ceaseless desire to shape what's new and what's next, and uncommonly good presentation skills. Join us. Fly north.

Develop and articulate the strategic insights of one of our largest high-profile global brands and work with our progressive designers and writers to translate strategy into great creative. Requires knowledge of qualitative research, experience facilitating groups, a talent for distilling complex information into clear and simple ideas, and the ability to effectively interact with a wide range of creative and client personalities. Must be willing and able to travel. Minimum 4 years account planning/brand strategy background with direct client contact and experience managing research vendors.

JDK seeks an experienced footwear Color Designer with a progressive color sense and a global understanding of youth-culture and action-sports lifestyles. The ideal candidate will have solid academic training as a colorist and/or graphic designer and at least 2 years of experience in the athletic/casual footwear industry. Responsibilities include applying color palettes to existing and new footwear lines, developing colorways, recommending materials, and color forecasting. Team leadership skills, excellent communication and customer-service skills, and knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop required.

Office Coordinator (with the skills of an air traffic controller) needed to coordinate executive team in a fast-paced design studio. If you thrive in a crisis, can produce order out of chaos, and can change direction at a moment’s notice, this is the job for you. At JDK, energy and skill are the order of the day. Our Office Coordinator is part of a team devoted to keeping our senior players on time and on focus. Core duties include managing multiple schedules, prioritizing/workload triage, correspondence, and direct client contact. Must have excellent multitasking, communication, and customer-service skills. Word processing, database management, and demonstrated office expertise necessary.

You create new and knowing concepts, headlines, print ads, brand names, product names, web content, email blasts, hangtags, strategy write-ups, presentation write-ups, entire catalogs, videos, POVs, campaigns, poems, rants, T shirts, stickers, point of sale, posters, long copy, short copy, great copy. Yes? JDK is interested. You must be unafraid to ask questions, unafraid to drive work independently, and unafraid of winter. We also like really smart and really good with proof to back it up. Like? Like a copywriting portfolio that demonstrates conceptual and creative strength. Editorial work will not be considered.

Jager Di Paola Kemp Design offers internships to college students every summer in areas such as account, design, digital production, and industrial design. Available internships change from year to year, depending on departmental needs and anticipated workload. Internships run from May through August and, for the time being, are available only at JDK's Burlington, Vermont, headquarters. The application deadline is March 1. We begin consulting with our departments shortly thereafter to determine the summer's offerings. Please note that we are no longer accepting applications for 2008 internships. If you are interested, please send your resume and cover letter to hr@jdk.com If you are looking for a design internship, be sure to send us digital samples of your work. Please be patient: we will contact you once we know which internships will be available.