Graphic Designer

3 year contract to start out!

The Senior Creative/Web Specialist Art Director is responsible for concepting, art direction, graphic design as well as presentation design, and presenting brand advertising, product marketing, and customer- and employee-facing communications. The specialist partners with copywriters, account managers and digital specialists to meet creative directors expectations and clients objectives within the brand.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures the delivery of creative, effective communications consistent with the company's brand standards and voice
• Understands and executes to meet the client's strategy, core message, target audience and specific goals
• Produces work that is consistently on-time and within budget
• Works collaboratively with copywriters, account managers, UX and other communicators
• Delivers materials for a broad spectrum of communications channels, including broadcast, video, animation, radio, audio, digital ads (HTML5), email and web (Sketch), direct mail, print ads, PowerPoint presentations
• Presents materials to clients; works positively and constructively to resolve issues and make necessary revisions
• Shows strong follow-through and attention to detail from project initiation through completion and archiving of files
• Works within established workflow processes
• Provides expertise in effective messaging for various audiences and guidance for applying the company's style guide and brand voice
• Maintains or improves skill level in design software and design techniques and methods
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications Basic/Required Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience with art direction, graphic, web, mobile, video/broadcast and motion design (animation)
• Strong art direction/design portfolio
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch or Adobe XD, presentation software (eg., Microsoft PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi)

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with advertising, marketing, corporate or customer-facing materials
• Recent experience in creating integrated communication campaigns across numerous channels
• Strong concepting skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Well organized, capable of managing multiple projects and deadlines concurrently
• Demonstrated understanding of current communications best practices
• Collaborative, team-oriented and flexible
• Knowledge of various social media channels - Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
• Microsoft SharePoint - document storage and management
• Workamajig - project management and time tracking tool

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to use hands and fingers, reach, climb stairs, walk, sit for prolonged periods of time, talk, and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty-five pounds.

Consulting Solutions and its family of companies is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at marketing@consultingsolutions.com