Senior Designer

Company Overview

The hiring organization supports a well-established financial services and insurance business in New Zealand. The environment is collaborative and delivery-led, with a strong emphasis on efficiency, clear communication, and accurate execution across a portfolio of recognised brands.

Role Summary

This 12-month contract is for a hands-on Senior Artworker / Senior Designer-style role focused on the technical production of a major insurance document rollout. You will be responsible for formatting, updating, and brand-aligning long, text-heavy materials such as policy wordings and interactive forms, while maintaining precision across multiple brand portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the formatting, revision, and brand consistency of more than 600 multi-page, content-heavy insurance documents.
• Create and apply advanced nested paragraph, character, and object styles in Adobe InDesign to keep layouts consistent across different brand assets.
• Develop, revise, and improve interactive PDF forms in Adobe Acrobat so they are easy to use and technically sound.
• Work closely with the project team, legal and compliance stakeholders, and brand representatives to deliver accurate materials within deadlines.
• Maintain tight version control, monitor text changes, and prevent layout shifts or formatting mistakes across large volumes of pages.

Requirements

• Proven commercial experience as a senior artworker or equivalent production-focused design role, ideally handling large document rollouts under pressure.
• Strong command of Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat, including advanced typography and typesetting practices.
• Extensive experience managing complex InDesign style sheets and using them consistently across dense, text-led documents.
• A highly organised, fast, and detail-oriented working style with the ability to operate independently and manage high asset volumes.
• Previous exposure to financial services, insurance, corporate banking, or specialist design/publishing work involving financial reports, prospectuses, or long-form publications is preferred.

Additional Information

This is an onsite contract role based in Auckland CBD, with a hybrid working arrangement available. The team environment is described as supportive.

Application Notes

Applications are to be submitted with strict confidentiality. A direct confidential discussion option was also provided in the source information. The employer also states that it welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and is committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.

Education

A bachelor’s degree is required, and relevant certificates are also noted as desirable/required supporting qualifications.