The Senior Graphic Designer works as part of an integrated marketing team and is responsible for starting and completing strategic web, digital, motion, and print design projects that promote Stetson University. The ideal candidate possesses a strong conceptual ability and solid design fundamentals, ensuring that resulting creative is on time, within brand standards, is connective and compelling, and aligns with marketing strategies and objectives.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for the timely creation of storyboards for photoshoots, videos, social media content, & even instructional videos
- Effectively listen, problem-solve, and translate ideas creatively into print and electronic media with consistency
- Work from strategy under the supervision of the Marketing AVP, providing project leadership across the institution and its’ various departments, serving as a design expert in digita, print and social media
- Effectively lead and manage assigned creative projects, keeping work on-time, in processes, and able to effectively present conceptual ideas to internal and external representatives
- Confidently present our institutional brand to the public and internal community effectively, keeping projects on target, within identity standards, and consistent across media channels
- Provide design project leadership from inception to completion and translate ideas
to both print and electronic media with consistency working directly with others
- Understanding of digital design for social media outreach
- Collaboration with the internal creative department, and marketing communications team.
- Stays up to date with trends and design standards, and has the ability to integrate them into graphic design for digital and print.
- Ability to work with a positive attitude, and contribute to group creative discussions.
- Works well with a team and thrives on creative storytelling through media as well as meeting individual design goals, in a fast-paced, creative environment.
- Work cooperatively with professional staff to accomplish departmental goals and meet established deadlines.
- Assist VP/AVP with special projects as assigned.
- Create reports and spreadsheets as requested.
MINIMUM EDUCATION: Bachelor's Degree
Required Skills
- Strong communication skills with a solid understanding of advertising principles, design best practices, typography, web and media trends, marketing strategy and print production
- Understanding of web trends and HTML/CSS with the ability to be an active partner in web design and web graphic creation
- Expert proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and Mac platform.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Premiere and/or Final Cut Pro
- Able to multitask in a deadline driven environment and work well within a multidisciplinary team keeping projects on strategy and timelines
- Provide expertise with both raster and vector base graphics, including the creation retouching and editing of both photographic and illustrative imagery
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years of graphic design and/or art direction experience in an agency or
in-house marketing department