Job description
We are seeking a Communications Designer/Visual Designer on a contract basis to support our executives & stakeholders with creating visual content to be used in long term planning, marketing and expressing our brand and stakeholder’s vision. The key role will be to distill complex concepts, solve visual challenges, and design compelling visuals for storytelling that set vision, provide valuable information, move people to action, and influence change. This person will possess sophisticated skills and ability to synthesize multiple complex concepts and creativity to distill, ideate, design and produce visual content. This role requires the ability to concept and create visuals by way of UI designs, illustrations, graphs and video created in external tools and use animation within presentation software. This person excels in collaboration with clients, internal project teams, and UX team to understand project assignment, audience, and intended message. Excellent written and verbal communication skills; this person will assist in the coordination and development of complex and high profile communication materials for senior-level stakeholders. This person will provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to stakeholders. Additionally, this person has the keen ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex documents and has solved problems involving several options in situations and effectively present information. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills, an impeccable design aesthetic, a demonstrated understanding of long and short form visual story-telling within the interactive landscape, and an exceptional attention to detail.
*Your Impact:* A day/week in your life as a UX Designer will include:
- Use Google Slides to create engaging presentations that expertly tell our stakeholder’s stories.
-Prepare conceptual design presentations taking into account business drivers and implementing design techniques.
-Delivers unique solutions to complex problems through motion and cinematic storytelling.
-Understands storytelling principles and has the ability to build a visual narrative.
-Ideate and create visual concepts and directions that communicate the desired feeling or message in an engaging and unified way.
-Develop illustrations, iconography, animations, graphs, bulleted lists, organization charts; transitions, animations, handouts, speaker notes into Google Slides to distill complex concepts.
-Develop visually stunning “1 pager” takeaways for executives.
-Present persuasively and clearly articulate design rationale for project creative solutions.
-Review final deliverables with an exacting eye, ensuring that layout, images, and typography are flawless.
-Oversee outreach and collaboration with partners and stakeholders for content creation and manage relationships.
-Work cross-functionally and collaborate with internal and external teams to understand their needs.
-Communicate clearly expected timelines and outcomes and revise projects as necessary based on collaborative feedback processes.
***Minimum Requirements***
-5+ years of experience with communication or branding design.
-**Portfolio is Required**
-Demonstrated ability to work with Google slides.
-Must be able to use Figma and Sketch Demonstrated experience in Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Final Cut Pro and/or Premier for creating and editing compelling visuals and A portfolio with a variety of illustrations, iconography, graphics, animation.
-A highly organized approach and attention to detail is a must.
-A proven track record of engaging with multiple stakeholders with various deadlines simultaneously and autonomously, with minimal oversight.
-Excel in information display and is able to use advanced conceptual skills to create innovative graphics.
-Understand cinematic motion techniques and build animations
-Plus: Have agency experience