Description:
Responsibilities
- Manages the in-house Visual Design team, providing creative direction, coaching for growth and development opportunities.
- Works with Senior Manager of Creative Services to execute work to be completed for creative projects, trade shows, and special events. Ensures that projects are consistent with brand and strategy.
- Acts as individual contributor on various creative requests as needed that range from social media, print and event materials, signage and more.
- Responsible for ordering and managing projects with print vendors.
- Delegates Jira tickets and projects at team level; setting pace and timelines due to bandwidth analysis and planning.
- Provides guidance and direction to team to ensure that project goals and deliverables are clearly communicated and achieved.
- Builds community as liaison and knowledge base for various teams across the org: keeping them up to date on branding, touching base on projects, getting updates on changes from their side of the business.
- Manages company design assets (PPT templates, logos, graphic resources).
- Helps with recruiting and onboarding of new Creative team members.
- Looks for cost savings opportunities and makes recommendations for the annual operating budget.
- Other duties as assigned.
Who are you?
You are an inspiring leader with great communication skills. You have a passion for branding, marketing, and consumer behavior, and can translate that into effective designs. You can lead a team to handle multiple projects with competing priorities, to get the work done well, in an efficient manner. You understand the importance of following brand and style guidelines, but are always willing to be flexible and help the company grow in innovative ways. looking for innovative ways to grow the brand. You can support your work with design thinking, have a drive for excellence, and pride in what you do.
- Bachelor's Degree in Art, Graphic Design or related field
- A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in graphic design
- Minimum 3-5 years of people management experience (direct reports).
- Portfolio of work demonstrating strong design expertise
- Expertise with InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
- Proficiency with PowerPoint
- Figma knowledge a plus
- Creativity, problem solving and great communication
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail