Junior Production Designer

Job Title: Junior Production Designer

Client Location: Lincolnshire, IL (3 days onsite required)

Salary/Pay Rate: $42 – $45/hour DOE

Firm, non-negotiable: Yes

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 6+ months with possible extension

Reporting to the Creative Director, the Junior Production Designer will, as part of our client’s internal creative agency, develop assets for all marketing channels and efforts including print, social, email and web.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for generating creative ideas and design solutions for our marketing channels, web, and products, adapting the style and tone based on the audience.
• Repsonsible for production design work using Photoshop and Illustrator
• Responsible for design and coding in HTML and CSS.
• Design and code landing pages.
• Create print collateral such as postcards, flyers, and mail pieces
• Support the brand guidelines in day-to-day work and have a clear understanding of the customer.
• Collaborate with other agency team members to understand execution dependencies to create solutions and experiences that are executable.
• Execute concepts using the fundamentals of information design hierarchy, wireframes, hi-fidelity wireframes/Photoshop comps, and optimized graphics production.
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure that the creative execution maintains a strong, consistent look and feel.
• Actively participate in creative kickoff meetings, provide expert recommendations as well as present design concepts during creative reviews.
• Work closely with project managers to balance expectations, requirements and schedules and ensure design solutions effectively communicate to drive business initiatives.
• Collaborate with creative team members, and business partners to create design solutions that effectively drive sales and business initiatives.
• Provide input and concepting ideas in initial brainstorming, collaborate with copywriters and developers, prepare the design solutions for presentation to the business owners and develop files for final execution.
• Juggle multiple projects within various channels managing to strict deadlines

Basic Qualifications:

• 2-3 years of experience in advertising/marketing focused design experience.
• Expert in Photoshop and Illustrator
• Expert in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma
• Strong online portfolio with examples of digital projects demonstrating creative thinking and execution, required.
• Experience designing across multiple platforms and/or devices for marketing, including email design.
• Ability to brainstorm, articulate, communicate, create, and see design through to final execution. Strong project management skills and ability to move quickly and comfortably between multiple projects.
• Must have the flexibility to understand and apply feedback.
• Must understand the scope of each project request and how it impacts schedules, objectives and deliverables with a firm understanding of the steps of the creative process in building design solutions.
• Proficient with HTML and CSS required.
• Photography and video editing skills preferred.
• Experience with WordPress and Instapage preferred.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $42 – $45/hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match (if applicable).

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