Candidates for this contractor role can work remotely from their home office within the continental United States.
Position Description:
Do you obsess about how to tell stories with images? Do you relish making beautiful graphics? Are you proficient across a range of project types from brand identity to infographics to graphics for mobile platforms?
Scientific Learning is looking for a part-time contract graphic designer with 3-5 years of experience who has a creative mind and a passion for graphic design, storytelling, infographics, and typography in online and offline mediums.
Responsibilities:
You will work closely with the Scientific Learning marketing team to create digital assets that are strongly aligned with, and push the boundaries of the overall look and feel of our brands across channels (parents, educators, clinical professionals), while assisting with other marketing functions as needed.
Example projects include:
- Design web page layouts and advertising landing pages
- Develop compelling visual displays for information shared at conferences/tradeshows and in print (PPT templates, event logos, print collateral, event banners)
- Design brochures and flyers for print and digital use
- Create compelling infographics that clearly communicate complex stories and school successes
- Creating brand guidelines
- Manage Scientific Learning’s graphic assets
- Design and create PDF assets from online content
Qualifications:
- Graphics Skills
- BA/BS preferred
- 3-5 years of graphic design experience minimum
- You have a strong online portfolio of print, digital, and brand design work that demonstrates stylistic breadth
- Knowledge of design for email marketing, including email template creation
- Exceptional typography and attention to detail
- Experience communicating and getting feedback on design ideas in prototypes before committing to hi res design work
- Advanced Photoshop skills; proficiency with other Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, etc.)
- Experience balancing file size and image quality for web (mobile + desktop) publishing, emailed PDFs, and print
- Knowledge of best practices for digital publishing design & layout
- Clear understanding, ability to interpret and design infographics
- Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of HTML
- Basic understanding of JavaScript and CSS
Critical Supporting Skills
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently to ensure all projects are delivered within deadlines
- Superior web-sleuthing and navigation skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Must be a detail-oriented, self-starter interested in building and growing
Competencies:
- Communication: The ability to express ideas effectively. Organizes and delivers information appropriately. Listens actively. Has the ability to be assertive without being overly aggressive. Utilizes all channels of communication effectively.
- Flexibility: The ability to readily modify, respond to, and integrate change with minimal personal resistance.
- Reliability: The ability to complete work in a timely and consistent manner. Takes personal responsibility for job performance. Sticks to commitments and takes pride in have minimal absences, being consistently punctual, and always prepared.
Scientific Learning’s Core Values:
- Respect: We demonstrate our respect for each other, our customers and our shareholders through our courteous and professional conduct. We value and strive for diversity in people and ideas.
- Continuous Improvement: We strive for continuous improvement in ourselves, our products and services, our operations, the experience we offer customers and the value we provide to our shareholders. We aim to maintain and improve Scientific Learning as a great place to work.
- Integrity: We conduct ourselves in an ethical and honest manner by dealing fairly and openly with each other, our customer, and our shareholders.
- Profitability: We conduct ourselves in a manner that contributes to the profitability of our business. Profitability allows us to invest in the future of our business to the shared benefits of our employees, customers, and shareholders.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time, and constantly operate a computer and other office equipment. This position requires frequent communication with customer and coworkers and must be able to communicate effectively both orally and written in person and via phone/computer and maintain the ability to view information on a computer monitor. Occasionally moves equipment weighing up to 30 pounds.
The work environment is indoors and is usually quiet to moderate noise.
Scientific Learning is an equal opportunity employer valuing diversity in people and ideas.