Graphic Designer 🔥
Overview
Aquent is looking for a Graphic Designer to help support the design team in generation of unique design and promotional concepts that promote brand identity and enhance the experience for the consumer. Supports the development execution and evolution of the Brand Expression—professional experience with a design firm, advertising agency, or marketing department.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Maintains highest level of innovative design execution.
- Demonstrates a foundation in graphic design, animation, typography, composition and layout.
- Leads and/or supports the conceptual creative process and design development of multiple small and large scale projects.
- Actively seeks creative feedback from managers at appropriate junctures and works with other designers to receive and provide constructive critiques.
- Keeps design leaders and business managers informed of project status.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to execute design projects.
- Assists creative manager in mentoring and providing direction to designers and writers.
- Develops and adheres to a creative strategy (including timelines) based on the project brief, creative criteria, and expected production values.
- Articulately represents creative work to creative leadership supporting the design strategy.
- Reviews creative concepts against the strategy, and demonstrates ability to communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and design details verbally and in writing.
- Selects and supervises outside vendors, including other creatives, illustrators and photographers.
- Finds and articulates white space opportunities, using probing questions to shape thinking and challenge the status quo.
- Keeps a pulse on industry trends and innovation within category
Technology requirements?:
- Adobe creative suite
- Basic Microsoft suite
Technology requirements?:
- Adobe creative suite
- Basic Microsoft suite
Years of experience?:
- 4+
Required background? Skills?:
- Communication
- Design and layout
- Able to think conceptual and strategic
- Collaboration
- They have to have a portfolio
- Virtual work settings
- Needing brand experience
Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Design or equivalent experience in a creative firm, advertising agency or inhouse creative department
- Expertise with typography, form, animation, and color sensibilities
- Ability to effectively articulate concepts (visually and verbally)
- Strong organization skills
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines within challenging time frames
- Expert knowledge of graphics software including Adobe CS
- Ability to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities
- Creative problem-solving, strategic thinking skills
- Ability to work as a team leader
- Ability to spot an idea/story that has the potential to drive the business, process or positively impact the brand in a meaningful way.
- Ability to apply outside examples and external inspiration to drive different ways of thinking.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Animation skills
- Illustrations
- Work in the social media area (facebook)
- Photography
- Procreate