Named "One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design'' by Fast Company, Monotype brings brands to life through type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman and more. Monotype specializes in the design, development, licensing, and management of typefaces and font technologies for the world’s biggest global brands and individual creative professionals, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences.
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We are looking for a Senior Creative Type Consultant in Shanghai, China, to help us drive our strategy within this growing and high-potential market. This role will have a wide range of responsibilities and will be instrumental in supporting and collaborating with our APAC sales team on growing revenue, building relationships, and acting as a trusted typographic advisor on behalf of the Company.
Responsibilities:
- Promote our expertise and typography at large as well as maintain and build our reputation for excellence in type with key clients, select agencies, and the overall creative industry.
- Participate in client presentations to explain typography decisions, technical specifications and font usage.
- Deliver presentations to customers, agencies or other industry events in the region
- Develop conceptual approaches and creative solutions through sketching, ideation, and visual exploration
- Work closely with foundry partners in the region
- Work closely with Sales Teams to translate client business and brand challenges into compelling creative briefs and account strategies.
- Collaborating with regional and global Leadership up to and including VP and SVP level
- Continuous development of knowledge about current font technologies, global scripts, and typographic practices
- Stay current with industry trends, tools, and standards in typography and font production
- Contribute to innovation initiatives by researching and recommending new typography technologies and approaches
- Contribute to our GenAI creative knowledge base, share your hands-on experience with AI tools and support us to build a growing repository of AI best practices
- Recognize and analyse local market trends in type design and make recommendations for strategic initiatives to satisfy customer needs and increase business
- Take an active role in building relationships and acting as a trusted advisor with our customers, within the type design community, agencies, freelancers, and universities
- Ongoing collaboration with the global creative team
What are we looking for:
- Ideally, you will hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in visual communication or type design
- Experience working in a creative or type design role
- Understanding of the Type market and customers’ needs in the APAC region.
- Established network of peers in the creative community
- Fluent in Mandarin & English.
- A strong type-led design portfolio showing high quality design skills and the necessary technical know-how.
- Knowledge of industry standard font editing tools, GlyphsApp is preferred, but knowledge of RoboFont or FontLab Studio will be considered
- Well-structured work methodology and capability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Editorial capabilities to write short articles or blog entries on typography.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Willingness to travel.
Monotype is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status