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Sr, Graphic Designer
San Francisco, CA
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Job Description
Description
Job Overview:
* Proposes strategy concepts for design projects for JdV brand and its properties
* Champion style guides and protect brand assets across the company
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Provides creative direction on visual design elements and ensures consistency and compliance of brand treatment across the Joie de Vivre corporate identity, as well as the identities of all associated businesses when producing various collateral, advertisements, logos, illustrations, templates, etc…
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Maintain electronic archive system for graphic materials
* Responsible for assisting in the development of systems to increase the efficiency of our graphic design process.
* Responsible for creation and maintenance of style guides and overall consistency
* Helps manage graphic design freelancers and their projects
Reports To: Art Director
Supervises: Freelance graphic designers
Key Relationships:
Internal: Art Director, Print & Web Production Manager, Director of PR, Director of Brand, and Director of Web Marketing, VP of Restaurants, Creative Director of Development, EC members and GMs
External: Contractual Graphic Designers, Printers, Consultants
* Qualifications/Skills:
Essential:
* Bachelors Degree
* Entrepreneurial designer with experience in all phases of design and copy
* Knowledgeable about marketing and communications and how design accomplishes strategy and tactics
* Strong communications skills working with marketing and business leadership
* Ensures project management completion
* Excellent proficiency in developing and executing concepts to final production
* Expert in InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark and Mac OS10
* Minimum 3 years experience as a graphic designer
* All candidates must have experience and knowledge of photography, printing techniques
* Solid graphic design/layout experience as well as press check experience
* Team player who has an affinity for web and print design, as well as branding
Desirable:
* Previous design/production related experience - will be judged based on portfolio of work.
* In-depth knowledge of four-color print processes.
* Experience managing/coordinating multiple projects under tight deadlines
Physical Abilities:
· Remain in stationary position for a maximum of eight hours (excluding meal and rest breaks).
· Sufficient manual dexterity to operate computer
· Repetitive hand motion (working on computer) for extended periods of time.
Essential Job Functions:
* Propose and implement design strategies that will align with overall marketing and brand strategies and tactics
* Partners with creative team and provides graphic design support from concept through printing.
* Prioritizes and coordinates multiple projects with project/production manager.
* Design artwork for all advertisements, promotional collateral, and sales material for all JDV business.
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Experience Required
3 plus years exp.
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Last Update
October 08, 2008
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