The Graphic Designer creates, manages and develops large, highly visible marketing collateral, advertising, and brand promotional materials, including in-store graphics, direct mail, and Out of Home (OOH). This position delivers consistent quality, accurately reflecting the brand standards.
This is a full-time, in-office position in our Wichita, Kansas Support and Innovation Center.
Specific Responsibilities
- Creates inspiring, strategic, and innovative ideas and presents creative solutions to ensure design meets the business objectives and remains on-brand.
- Controls the layout, visual appearance, and usability of creative solutions to ensure alignment with the creative brief and target market.
- Collaborates with the marketing team and advertising partners to develop and implement design solutions and to ensure successful representation of the brand across media outlets.
- Manages the timing, integrity, and quality of deliverables for multiple projects. simultaneously from inception through the creative process to the execution of all materials.
- Develops branding elements, including digital, outdoor, print, social media, collateral and promotional materials, and in-store signage from concept to pre-press to production.
- Ensures print production files are completed, saved, and corrected for production.
- Responsible for managing day-to-day relationship with printing partner.
- Assists with photo shoots, location visits, and other stages of the creative development or production process as needed.
- Manages and leads DAM including uploading, organizing, archiving and file sharing.
- Acts as an ambassador for the brand.
- Other responsibilities as required.
Desired Skills & Proficiencies
- Bachelor’s degree in design or similar or equivalent professional experience.
- A minimum of five (5) years in (graphic) design.
- Strong portfolio of visual work, with excellent design and typography skills.
- Ability to collaborate and take direction.
- Knowledge of broadcast standards, post-production processes, and digital/social best practices.
- Extremely organized and able to work in a fast-paced work environment with shifting deadlines and priorities.
- Proficient in Adobe Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects. Figma, Sketch, and HTML5 a plus.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
- Talk and hear in person, over the phone and via computer sources.
- Read and disseminate information from printed sources and computer screens.
- Stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, bend, and lift up to 20 pounds.
- Travel by airline and/or automobile as needed.
- Be available a variety of hours that may include evenings, nights and weekends.
Work schedule
- 8 hour shift
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching