Description:
What You'll Do:
- Contribute high-quality creative work, from conception to execution, that demonstrates an innovative, best-in-class approach to graphic design.
- Devise and develop original ideas that engage target audiences and address clients’ business challenges.
- Stay informed of design trends and new technologies; provide innovative ideas for design solutions in support of objectives and initiatives.
- Work with multi-disciplinary guides to conceptualize, design, and produce creative assets and brand packages that achieve strategic goals for projects and clients.
- Produce sophisticated graphic design artwork to support marketing efforts using technology and computer software packages for either print or web.
- Partner with marketing strategist to build full brand identities from discovery through delivery.
- Iterate new brand identities across a variety of marketing collateral such as websites, brochures, social media, direct mail, proposals, presentations, environmental graphics, etc.
- Present your work to partners with the ability to explain design thinking and to build consensus amongst brokers and clients.
- May investigate, compare, and recommend local suppliers of marketing production services, including typography, paper, and printing.
- Provide design advice to clients and sales teams as well as guidance to co-workers.
- May work with vendors to ensure integrity of design production.
- Other duties may be assigned.
- No formal supervisory responsibilities in this position. Provides informal assistance such as technical guidance, and/or training to coworkers. May coordinate and assign tasks to co-workers within a work unit and/or project.
What You'll Need:
To perform this job successfully, an individual will need to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Bachelor of Fine Arts or Masters of Fine Arts degree preferred with a minimum of 5 to 10 years of related experience and/or training.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to internal clients.
- Ability to effectively present information.
- Requires ability to do project budgets and cost estimates.
- Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret sophisticated documents.
- Ability to tackle problems involving several options in situations. Requires intermediate analytical and quantitative skills.
- Must have a proven grasp of fundamental concepts of print and web publishing and graphic design principles. Intermediate skills with web design. Strong skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Familiarity with Adobe Dreamweaver.
- Strong skills in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word Familiarity with MS Excel. Basic project management, editing and writing skills required.
- Decisions made with thorough understanding of procedures, company policies, and business practices to achieve general results and deadlines.
- Responsible for setting work unit and/or project deadlines. Errors in judgment may cause short-term impact to department.