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.
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Translate complex conceptual and strategic ideas into graphic design solutions, seamlessly coming up with templates for print and digital.
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Design ambitiously, with a command of typography, composition, messaging hierarchy, and balance
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Help establish a seamless process to align content for print, web design, e-newsletters and social.
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Oversee digital story builds
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Create custom artwork for digital stories, digitally focused assets for events and marketing
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Create replicable templates and guidelines for print, online and social story promotion elements
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Help establish and maintain brand visual style guides
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Develop mood boards/visual treatment concepts for new newsletters and editorial refreshes
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Contribute to ongoing creation of a comprehensive and diverse portfolio of freelancers suited to the visual voice of SDM; understand journalism
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Collaborate across creative teams and provide ideas and visual solutions in brainstorming meetings
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Help arrange photo shoots
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Logos and branding programs (for newsletters and social)
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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.
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Optimize digital translations of the print magazine for web and social
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Work with internal and outside collaborators (video editors, supplied images from story subjects) to optimize the burgeoning digital experience at SDM.
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Experienced editorial designer/ illustrator
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Expert Photoshop skills creating digital photo collages with supplied imagery
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Ability to generate, execute and iterate on ideas quickly
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Ability to multitask and prioritize in deadline driven and fast paced environment
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Comfortable working with many stakeholders and editors across several departments
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Comfortable both giving and receiving feedback
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Organized, proactive and detail oriented
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Fluency in email marketing
To apply: Email a copy of your resume and portfolio to [email protected]
