Senior Graphic Designer Job at Targa Media Inc. in Salt Lake City

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Senior Graphic Designer

Location: Remote and/or on-site (downtown Salt Lake City)

Experience: 5+ years (post-schooling)

Targa Media, a Salt Lake City marketing firm, is looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to support forward-thinking communications and collateral for key clients. Responsibilities include graphic design, production, front-end programming, team leadership and account management support. This person will help to create and maintain visual assets through hands-on design and production, template maintenance, and front-end coding support. Other key skills include concept development, branding, strategy, and storyboarding. Our ideal candidate has demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio that includes a solid understanding of typography, messaging hierarchy, and visual composition. Candidate must have a good mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator). Press-ready design and production experience will be prioritized. Video/motion graphics experience is valuable (After Effects, Premiere). Other useful skills include copy-editing and UX/UI design to support ongoing campaigns. For this position, it's also beneficial to be up to date with new technologies and marketing trends. This position works closely with our creative leads, copywriters, designers and project managers.

SKILLS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Concepting, design and production

• Coding competency is helpful (HTML, XML)

• Desktop publishing, print and press-ready file prep

• Digital-ready artwork (file optimization for web, email, mobile, etc.)

• Adept at photo editing and vector art design

• Other clerical tasks, file management and project organization

REQUIREMENTS:

7+ years experience in a full-time design/Production capacity

• Strong ability to communicate ideas and project status with co-workers and clients

• Strong grasp of typography, design principles, visual hierarchy, and messaging

• Adept/proficient with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.)

• Familiar with Microsoft Office and Google Suite tools

• Eager to both learn and lead: Our dynamic team thrives on sharing and considering

new ideas. This critical quality serves our team morale and builds long-term

relationships with our clients.

ABOUT TARGA MEDIA:

We're a fun, fast-paced and collaborative marketing firm, founded in 2002. Our unique approach to marketing revolves around our "secret sauce" of understanding emotional buying triggers of our clients' audiences. We work with forward-thinking clients in industries such as IT, education and healthcare. Our creative process allows our clients to feel involved and engaged, with timely delivery of tasks and projects. Our award-winning portfolio focuses first and foremost on producing messaging that resonates with the right target audience at the right time.