Co-Brand Senior Designer (Specializing in Typography)

Co-Brand Senior Designer (Specializing in Typography)

Employment Type: Contract/Temp

Date Posted: 4/23/2024

Location: Remote

Pay Range: Negotiable

Job Number: JO-2404-2398

Primary Function

The Co-Brand Senior Designer will join our hardworking in-house creative team to support client's American Express partnership and associated credit card products. You will help craft creative strategies and concepts for consumer campaigns with the goal of increasing customer acquisition and engagement. The most common types of projects you can expect to work on are emails, direct mail, banner ads, social posts, app placements, and large offer-based campaigns.

The ideal candidate will have a wide range of design capabilities and experience, with a solid background in visual communications, print, digital, and typography, specifically as it relates to loyalty programs and/or the financial industry.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop creative ideas and concepts, often in partnership with the Associate Creative Director, Art Director and other Designers and Copywriters, across omni-channel touchpoints with a customer-first lens.

• Proactively understand and gain knowledge of our business, brands, target audiences, and competitor activities.

• Liase with Co-brand marketing partners to interpret creative briefs.

• Adhere to client's brand identity and accessibility standards and guidelines while helping to inform the evolution and extension of the visual identity. Similarly, adhere to American Express requirements.

• Responsible for graphic design and direction, seeing all projects through from concept, design, production, completion and delivery.

• Assist the team with day-to-day production requests, including image selection and reformatting creative for various channels.

• Evolve, revise or redevelop creative in response to feedback from the AD, ACD, and internal stakeholders.

• Present and provide business rationale for creative ideas to our internal stakeholders for approval and development. Effectively communicate the strategic intent for each tactic while adhering to American Express requirements.

• Balance multiple projects successfully to meet deadlines and collaborate across multiple stakeholders with different priorities. Work closely with project manager to keep all projects on track.

• Use campaign performance data to understand the effectiveness of campaigns and apply key takeaways to future campaigns.

• Stay current on industry trends, particularly in the digital, email, and social space; share ideas and recommendations for innovating new templates and design approaches

Skills & Qualifications

• Ability to work on multiple campaigns/projects, often in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

• Strong knowledge of design fundamentals and messaging hierarchy

• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to inspire and sell creative rationale

• Self-motivation, flexibility, and willingness to adapt

• Accuracy and attention to detail

• Resilience with ability to accept criticism of your work

• Market awareness with the ability to understand the target audiences

• Collaborative and can work with partners across multiple functions

• Experience working in a creative agency

• Experience in hospitality, loyalty programs, and/or financial industries

Education & Experience

• Strong portfolio showing a range of experience, concepts, and visual styles.

• Minimum of 6 years relative Design experience, preferably in a design firm, advertising or in-house creative department

• Experience working with a marketing department, understanding of business objectives and ability to find creative solutions to help achieve objectives

• Knowledge of design fundamentals and messaging hierarchy

• Experience working on direct response materials and designing for a range of marketing channels including email, banner ads, social, landing pages, print collateral

• Ability to develop/present/pitch creative ideas

• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Suite. Figma experience is a plus.

• Ability to process and produce multiple projects in a short time frame- resizing art/layout accordingly to specs

• Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously under the pressure of deadlines.

• Strong communication skills with ability to work in a team environment

• Strong creative, organizational problem solving

• Must be able to apply style guides creatively while upholding brand identity

• Strong attention to detail. Self-starter. A positive attitude and a collaborative personality.

• It would be helpful in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions:

• Portfolio showing a focus in email and digital placements

• Experience in hospitality, loyalty programs, and/or financial industries

• Experience working at a creative agency

• Animation, HTML 5 banner development and/or video production experience is a plus

• Experience supervising junior designers is a plus

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