Drips is seeking a highly motivated, confident Junior Graphic Designer who is a responsible team player with self-driven abilities. The ideal candidate will possess strong, detailed skills in developing creative ideas, will be able to create and inspire new concepts toward client projects using a wide range of mediums, and will have a penchant for working in a fast-paced, fun and exciting work environment and industry.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with the creative team to execute ideas
• Translate concepts into variable design concepts
• Research and keep abreast of emerging design trends and practices
• Design promotional and event collateral for both print and web
• Co-ordinate production and timelines with team members to meet overall campaign deadlines
• Improve and create graphics for design projects
• Collaborate with strategist and other members of the Drips team to produce presentations for business development and client meetings

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• One year of industry experience
• Diploma or higher in appropriate field
• Adobe Creative Suite Proficient (must include Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign)
• Motion Graphics or Video experience preferred
• Able to translate designs to PowerPoint while creating templates under Slide Master within PowerPoint
• Able to take direction and stay within brand guidelines
• Passionate about design and willingness to update job knowledge
• Creative flair, originality, and strong visual sense

To assist in our selection of candidates, an electronic or printed portfolio must be provided. Samples of previous or current work pieces are acceptable, as this process will help determine your qualification and position within Drips. 

CORE VALUES:

Drips core values are central to how each employee executes in their role daily and exceeds. Below are how we exceed in each core value

LEAN – We find the right mix between administration and simply doing things. Over complicating tasks can add time without providing benefit, however just doing things without a plan can add time when course correction is required. To exceed, we finish work in a timely manner while reviewing to make sure we are striking the right balance between the two. Implementing streamlining methods to existing processes ensure we evolve and stay lean.

PASSION – Expressing passion daily is the desire to do the job but evolving in the job to expand beyond the base role and taking on additional projects and roles to help teams outside your own while maintaining your individual workload. Understanding that all of the activities we take are to enable our clients, and thus Drips as a whole to be successful. Asking the question, “How is what I am doing today, enabling the success of my teammates and my clients”.

HAPPINESS – Finding the balance in both your personal and work life. Participating in group and team activities as you see fit but understanding that life is about more than just coming into the office daily. Drips has telecommute possibility available, overall wellness programs and additional benefits that assist. True enthusiasm for what we do is essential but comes from understanding the business overall and how we fit into it.

IMPROVE – Never accepting the status quo and being entrenched in a process or workflow. Finding ways to streamline and innovate while bringing those improvements to leadership. Improvement also means understanding the anticipated benefit and it improves our daily working experience, your teammates and Drips Clients overall.

TEAM – We support and assist our teammates, even if it is outside of our typical duties. We take on additional projects for their added value whether they impact your day-to-day work or not. Being part of a team involves being in close contact every day, respecting each other and the work we do is essential however to exceed in Team, we move outside of our direct team, to the company team as a whole and understand how we impact everything and the value we provide.

*Please note that this job description is a rough outline of tasks that can be expected in the Junior Graphic Designer position at Drips.  It is in no way all-encompassing or contractual.  There will be duties that are performed outside this scope and some duties included above that will not be required.