Job Description
Job Description
Position Summary
- Title Graphic Designer
- Department Design
- Reports to Creative Manager
- FLSA Non-Exempt, Salary
The Graphic Designer is a highly motivated individual who can take on a varying workload, and can come up with new and exciting designs on a daily basis. The main function of the Graphic Designer is to work with multiple departments and customize our products based on their customer’s needs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provides customers with an accurate representation of their expectations, ensuring that the outcome is accurate to what was communicated to them.
- Creates customized products for both internal and external customers.
- Adapts personal design style to suit customer’s preferences and overall brand look when necessary.
- Communicates regularly with project steak holders, Custom Sales Manager, Creative Manager, and Senior Designers.
- Encourages teammates to improve upon their skills by continuously working on his or her own skillset and staying current on market trends.
- Upholds JUNK Brands's values of acting with integrity; working together as a team; treating each other with respect.
- Meets deadlines and expectations of varying projects in an efficient and timely manner.
Skills and Competencies
- Excellent communicator (visual, written and verbal) and a creative thinker with the ability to use data to inform decisions
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.
- Highly collaborative, able to establish and maintain relationships and displays strong leadership abilities.
- Excellent time management, multi-task oriented, organized and keen sense of personal accountability.
- Is highly motivated with strong work ethics and demonstrated flexibility to meet tight deadlines
- Web design, coding skills and HTML and CSS proficiencies highly desired.
- Experience with templating languages such as Liquid or Smarty, and experience with javascript also a plus but not required.
Education and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or institution in Graphic Design or a similar field.
OR 4+ years professional experience working as a designer. - Portfolio must show a variety of capabilities, including (but not limited to): pattern making, apparel or product design and web design.
Physical/Mental Requirements
- Maintains positive, upbeat attitude.
- Continues to seek improvement in design and production abilities.
- Self-starter and eager to continue to learn.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position (seated) 80% of the day and occasionally reach, bend
- and move inside the office to access files and product.
- Required to have close visual acuity to perform computer tasks and operate other office machinery.
- The person in this position frequently communicates with internal and external customers and must be
- able to exchange accurate information in a clear manner.
- Ability to move 10-20 lbs occasionally throughout day.
- Able to hear a telephone ring.