4-Month Digital Graphic Designer Contract

Location: Markham, Ontario

Job Description:

Job Summary

The Digital Designer will be part of the Content team and will be responsible for creating engaging digital properties and bringing our 360 marketing plans to life. Executing customer-centric, consistent but differentiate digital-first design across all marketing channels.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create digital properties at varying scales for numerous digital platforms including site, digital ads, email, organic and paid social assets, store and internal communications.
• Effectively interpret creative briefs, participate in ideation sessions, develop creative designs within pre-established templates and re-size / adapt existing artwork as needed.
• Provide design expertise and feedback to help evaluate work from a brand standards perspective.
• Engage in all phases of digital creative projects from concept through execution of storyboarding, wireframing, asset production, proofing and testing.
• Present several innovative concept solutions for marketing collateral and themes, while ensuring brand compliance.
• At all times, attention-to-detail and overall quality control is critical.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member with internal and external client groups, understand and follow management directives, work effectively in a 360 environment when required, communicate project rationales, status, glitches and successes as appropriate.
• Must have the ability to prioritize competing projects and adhere to tight deadlines.
• Design responsive and creative content enhancements to the Pet Valu website(s).
• Collaborate with the offline/online teams for monthly themes that reflect strategy; and keep a level of consistency across all media while enhancing themes for digital programs.

Experience, Education, Certifications

• 1-3 years of solid graphic design and production experience with digital/print/branding design background (motion graphics experience and video would be a plus)
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates conceptual and strategic thinking with a strong understanding of branding and design principles as they apply to all mediums. Strong typography skills is a must!
• Graphic design/Web diploma from a recognized Community college or University
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Figma, After Effects, Premier Pro.
• Able to communicate ideas clearly and effectively and make a strong impact in decision making
• Approach challenges with a positive attitude and a customer-first perspective. Retail and/or ecommerce design experience is an asset.
• Thrives in a team environment with a passion for collaborating with various teams and adaptable in working in a fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of ADA, and building designs in compliance with customers of all ability types
• Experience utilizing HTML5, CSS3, ampscript an asset
• Experience in front end web development an asset
• Experience with UI/UX design an asset

Competencies

• Perseverance– Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Interpersonal Savvy– Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Organizing– Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently arranges information and files in a useful manner.
• Problem Solving– Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
• Creativity– Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.

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