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Staff Designer
As the embodiment of design thinking, you bring ideas to life, extending visual language into functional mediums. You turn clients’ stories, visions, and voices into something tangible and real. With the strength of your conceptual thinking, your creations show us how problems can be solved, simplified, and then go on to succeed. You’ve got the whole form/function thing down pat, and you’re down to join a team that embraces Design in everything they do.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities. (Other duties may be assigned)
- Assist with the creation of visual designs, typography, visual concepts, logos, and icons working under the direction of a Creative Director or Associate Creative Director.
- Brainstorm creative concepts with the project team (cross-discipline) and help develop original campaigns.
- Integrate ideas across multiple mediums: print, digital and beyond.
- Ideally, you will get direction and run with it. We look for self-starters, go-getters, and other hyphenated-type characters.
- Sell your work—not just to clients, but to your peers and colleagues, too.
- Working on projects and assignments in accordance to established timelines and project briefs and expectations.
Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- 2-3 years of proven experience in the agency space.
- A bachelor’s degree in Design or a portfolio school education focused on Design/art direction.
- You’re a conceptual creative problem solver, strategically applying ideas across all channels and you’re dedicated to the craft of design (kerning matters!).
- You are curious by nature and have interest in expanding your knowledge and skills across animation or digital. Bonus: If you already have experience in either of these.
- You know your way around both the Adobe Suite and Figma.
- You are collaborative, hardworking, adaptable, with strong initiative.
- You are rational but innovative and have a naturally curious mind and a passion for applying pixel-perfect design to creative concepts.
- You’re ready to spitball and spit-shine ground-breaking ideas with a phenomenal, hardworking group of people.
- You’re receptive to constructive feedback, a quick learner and continuously looking for ways to grow.
- No huge egos. Or even medium-size egos. In fact, no ego is better. Okay maybe like a teeny-tiny ego (because you ARE human after all*).
Total Perks Package
- The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
- Amazing opportunities for career development
- Recognition programs
- Employee referral bonus
- Hybrid work schedule
- Fun and collaborative work environment
- Casual dress code
- Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
- 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
- Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
- Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave
VSA Partners is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable environment for all employees. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit and business need.
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