Digital Designer

Digital Designer to help brainstorm, design and execute innovative multi-platform content. The magazine’s content takes many forms—reported articles, photo essays, videos, social media, events and brand partnerships. You will pro-actively produce a variety of materials for the print and digital realm. As the Digital Designer you will work with the Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-Chief.

• Translate complex conceptual and strategic ideas into graphic design solutions, seamlessly coming up with templates for print and digital.

• Design ambitiously, with a command of typography, composition, messaging hierarchy, and balance

• Help establish a seamless process to align content for print, web design, e-newsletters and social.

• Oversee digital story builds

• Create custom artwork for digital stories, digitally focused assets for events and marketing

• Create replicable templates and guidelines for print, online and social story promotion elements

• Help establish and maintain brand visual style guides

• Develop mood boards/visual treatment concepts for new newsletters and editorial refreshes

• Contribute to ongoing creation of a comprehensive and diverse portfolio of freelancers suited to the visual voice of SDM; understand journalism

• Collaborate across creative teams and provide ideas and visual solutions in brainstorming meetings

• Help arrange photo shoots

• Logos and branding programs (for newsletters and social)

• Printed Materials (media kits, invitations, flyers, signage, posters, etc.)

Skills

Candidates must be fluent in the digital design realm and be a true stakeholder in the process of alleging print with online. Experienced digital media creator with 5 years demonstrated history of working in the publishing, e-marketing and art production industries. Skilled in art direction, photo editing, graphic design, social media marketing, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign.

• Optimize digital translations of the print magazine for web and social

• Work with internal and outside collaborators (video editors, supplied images from story subjects)  to optimize the burgeoning digital experience at SDM.

• Experienced editorial designer/ illustrator

• Expert Photoshop skills creating digital photo collages with supplied imagery

• Ability to generate, execute and iterate on ideas quickly

• Ability to multitask and prioritize in deadline driven and fast paced environment

• Comfortable working with many stakeholders and editors across several departments

• Comfortable both giving and receiving feedback

• Organized, proactive and detail oriented

• Fluency in email marketing

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To apply: Email a copy of your resume and portfolio to [email protected]