Wanted: Talented Retail and Motion Graphics Designer and All-Around Great Person
Our awesome digital agency is looking for an awesome Retail and Motion Graphics Designer to join our team, working on brands like Salesforce, Slack, Levi’s, and Adidas.
If you love a fresh creative challenge but also enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes with rolling out the many assets associated with a campaign, you’re barking up the right tree. If you know the devil is in the details and you’re in your element in a fast-paced environment, you’re knocking on the right door. If you’re a smart problem-solver who’s a little weird and can’t hide it, welcome home.
About The Role
This is a critical role for the agency. We produce a lot of work to a very high standard and we do it very quickly, but along the way, we aim to make the agency a place that we all want to work. So if you have ideas that would make you love your job more, we’ll want to hear them. (That said, we have already vetted the pony petting zoo idea and it’s just not practical when we all work remote.)
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute creative and engaging designs for various digital media channels
- Create content for digital media campaigns, including deliverables such as image banners, social videos and assets
- Collaborate with account team to ensure all designs align with brand guidelines
- Keep up-to-date with the latest design trends and techniques
- Create engaging visuals to accompany digital media posts and updates using brand-approved toolkits and guidelines
Requirements for Motion Graphics & Animation
- Solid knowledge of After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Strong visual and conceptual skills
- Knowledgeable with Premiere Pro and Media Encoder
- Familiarity with Figma’s video and animation capability, open to learning more as the tool develops
- Keeps up to date with new technologies, platforms, techniques, and trends, especially social media templates and requirements
- Understanding of broadcast and digital distribution best practices, including technical aspects of production
- Able to take a project from initial design creation to final animation
- Able to create basic storyboards for presentation
- Excellent understanding of animation principles and motion design
- Knowledge of motion graphic editing and production
- Motion graphic and audio editing experience
- Videography/production skills
- Strong organizational skills, able to follow agency file organization standards
- Attention to detail and accuracy, with polished finished work
Requirements for Graphic Design
- 2+ years working in an agency or similar client-side environment
- High level proficiency in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
- Ability to adhere to strict brand guidelines
- Ability to execute design concepts across a multitude of different projects, both digital and occasionally print
- Ability to jump quickly between different projects and juggle priorities
- Ability to understand complex information hierarchies, and communicate them through typography and design
- Interest in marketing strategy, and desire to understand how our projects fit within larger brand objectives
- Ability to communicate effectively with clients and team members
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to take feedback and make changes quickly
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects at once
About The Company
IRON Creative was founded in 2003. We are a thirty-person+ digital agency, specializing in supercharging content marketing for B2B technology businesses, and optimizing the digital retail presence of fashion and lifestyle brands.
We’ve handled virtually every type of project, and we’ve done it with a do-or-die attitude that’s earned the trust and long-term loyalty of clients like Salesforce, Slack, Levi’s and Dockers.
We produce a lot of work to a very high standard and we do it very quickly – but along the way, we aim to make the agency a place where we all want to work. So if you have ideas that would make you love your job more, we’ll want to hear them.
Life At IRON
We deeply value our culture and work to ensure everyone has a clear sense of where their career is going, so we can help them get it there. A few other highlights of a gig at IRON include:
- Excellent medical insurance
- A 401k with an employer match
- No less than 13 paid holidays
- Guaranteed three-day weekend, every month
- Health & Wellness reimbursement (for gym, exercise equipment, etc.)
- Entertainment Package (online subscriptions like Hulu, Netflix, etc.)
- Strengths-based working environment
- Generous PTO policy & insurance package 401k
- Innovative work-from-home structure
