Sr Designer, Creative Marketing

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Position Purpose:

The Sr. Designer, Creative Marketing designs marketing assets for a wide variety of channels across a broad range of platforms and media. This role utilizes brand-minded thinking and expertise in understanding systems and applying brand principles to the work. The Sr. Designer, Creative Marketing demonstrates a mastery of the foundational skills of design and strategic thinking to produce the high quality design solutions within time constraints. This role will partner with and inspire other creatives associates, providing mentorship and guidance as well as creative feedback to designers.

Key Responsibilities:

• 20% - Collaborates with Partners - Partner cross functionally and with key stakeholders, display situational adaptability and is able to step in and drive change to deliver more customer and brand-centric results; Streamlines work process and builds design solutions to meet project needs 
• 70% - Design - Uses independent creative thought and technics to create design concepts, layouts, comps, moodboard/whiteboard explorations and production as assigned. Utilize design tools and systems to provide high-quality work within prescribed deadlines; Engage in strategic discussions and share expertise to improve work outputs as well as drive innovation. Utilizes independent judgement to proactively solve problems 
• 10% - Mentorship - Provide guidance and support to designers; frequent contributor to broader team activities and learning engagements; Stays current with and shares best practices to help elevate the team; Provides creative feedback to designers
   

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This Position typically reports to the Manager, Creative
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
   

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
   

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
   

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate education in design
• 5+ years' professional design experience working in digital marketing, retail industry or advertising agency preferred
• Expertise in current and relevant design tools like Figma and Adobe CS, animation tools like After Effects a plus
• Experience with DCO and campaign platforms as well as content management systems
• Experience working with digital design systems and knowledge of UX design principles and methodologies 
• Ability to present a diverse portfolio that exemplifies experience developing omnichannel digital campaigns, assets and content while consistently building up a brand
• Knowledge of photo sourcing, photo editing and custom photography production
• Ability to articulate and present creative ideas to a variety of audiences
• Demonstrated passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative team members
• Mature appreciation for the balance between creative design and business objectives
   

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
   

Preferred Education:

• No additional education
   

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5
   

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience
   

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• No previous leadership experience
   

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• No previous leadership experience
   

Certifications:

• None
   

Competencies:

• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Drives Engagement
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Drives Results