Senior Graphic Designer

OVERVIEW

The Senior Designer researches relevant industry topics to generate creative ideas in order to concept, and design informative and original content for campaigns of print/web/social. The Senior Designer places art and copy elements in traditional and digital environments to create executable visual presentations. This role collaborates with multiple roles across the agency to take ideas from concepts through to final individual and collective iterations ready for publishing. The designer will be fundamentally productive in purpose, using his or her abilities to collaboratively generate superior creative advertising work on behalf of the agency.

This role involves interviewing clients and experts, collaborating with writers to develop visuals. The Senior Designer is a solution-seeker and high-level problem solver, using aesthetics to provide graphic and/or visual solutions to problems involving multiple elements and understanding that a message is based on an idea, and that the idea is sacrosanct and has to be clearly, effectively communicated.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

1. Participates in the client discovery process. 
2. Concepting, designing, and problem solving, as well as production work 
3. Selling an idea both internally and externally. 
4. Provides quality control at micro / individual and project level. 
5. Collaborates within the department, including taking instruction from Creative Directors. 
6. Is proactive with Creative staff, participating in team creativity, and staying up to date with technology and trends is required. 
7. Behaves as a resourceful, imaginative, team-orientated, pragmatic, tireless solution provider / problem solver.

ABOUT MIGHTILY

Mightily is an inventive, thoughtful, and focused advertising agency. We're passionate about sharing brands by uncovering what makes them meaningful and special to those who love them. We work with a sense of humor, a commitment to collaboration and creativity, and a courageous, relentless, passionate, and faithful belief that nothing is more valuable than a strategically focused, beautifully produced idea.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

This role has no supervisory responsibility.

PERFORMANCE METRICS

Meets set deadlines.

Minimal mistakes found in anything published.

This job is also measured by client satisfaction.

POSITION TYPE / EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK

This is a full time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm.

TRAVEL

Travel is not required for this position.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s Degree desired.

3+ years of agency experience required.

Creative Suite experience required.

Strong technical understanding of design principles required.

CLASSIFICATION

Exempt

SALARY RANGE

$50,000 - $65,000

BENEFITS

• Health and Dental insurance (part company paid)
• 401K plan, company paid Short and Long Term Disability, Vision, and Life Insurance, maternity, paternity, and bonding leave, parking supplement, and more.
• Minimum two weeks PTO, last week of year off paid,  and 9 company paid holidays along with two paid volunteer days annually.

REPORTS TO

Chief Creative Officer

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Mightily provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION MISSION STATEMENT

Discussing and believing in diversity initiatives is not enough. 

We acknowledge that systemic racism and discriminatory systems have created an unequal distribution of opportunities. We accept our undeniable privilege and our responsibility to address such inequalities by creating fair and equal opportunities for underrepresented communities.

We feel that too much of the same thing is never good. It’s our differences and our experiences that challenge us to think bigger and bolder, spurring new ideas and creativity. This can only be achieved through a more inclusive and a more diverse team. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and copier machines.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, use repetitive computer motions and sit at a desk. The employee is sometimes required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee is rarely required to lift, carry, push or pull, no more than 20 pounds. 

We commit to having the challenging but necessary conversations to hold ourselves accountable. We are ready to embrace discomfort, to better ourselves in order to better the world around us. 

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 

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