A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states.
Amplify's creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.
Senior Visual Marketing Designers at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that bring our campaigns to life. As a member of Amplify's design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional team of designers, marketers, sales, product owners, developers, and curriculum specialists to design and develop Amplify's product marketing collateral.
Responsibilities of the Sr. Visual Designer:

• Drive and participate in creative brainstorming, concept development and design execution.
• Ability to produce solid, on-strategy concepts and visuals from concept to completion-exploring a range of solutions and getting design team and partner feedback along the way.
• Execute concepts across a range of marketing initiatives: print collateral, landing pages, digital ad campaign creative, social media, email, presentation decks, etc.
• Articulate concepts and creative solutions visually and verbally. Provide clear direction and feedback to other designers on the team.
• Work collaboratively with the creative and marketing teams to help continue to evolve the Amplify brand product brands, including collaboration with design directors, designers, video editors, animators, digital marketers and product marketers.
• Continuously explore current design trends in order to keep up to date aesthetic and understanding of what drives audience and engagement in digital and print design now.
• Contribute to and operationalize our design system.
• Be open to learning new processes and tools to create content.
• Help to shape the design culture at Amplify by working with other designers to build a strong practice, communicating design value and solutions across the organization, and regularly providing feedback to other designers.

Basic Qualifications of the Sr. Visual Designer:

• 5 years proven experience working in a marketing creative agency or busy in-house marketing creative team
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Highly developed design skills, demonstrated in your portfolio of recent work
• Comfortable with a fast moving marketing team
• Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and listening)
• Comfortable with collaborative discussion, listening closely and providing honest, thoughtful feedback to colleagues
• Expertise with Adobe CC, Sketch, Zeplin
• Capable of working on simultaneous projects to meet tight deadlines
• Comfortable working across different design mediums
• Able to collaborate with a team as well as take initiative and work independently
• Confident presentation and storytelling abilities
• Experience collaborating in multifunctional teams as the visual design lead

Preferred Qualifications of the Sr. Visual Designer:

• Experience with visual design in education technology or a related field
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the education landscape

• Animation and motion skills
• Illustration skills
• Video production experience
• Experience with Agile processes

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.