Design Manager
Design Manager
Marketing
As the Design Manager for our creative services team, you will collaborate with our Director of Creative Services on the direction and execution of our corporate and brand marketing needs. This role will be a player/coach, both being responsible for creating assets but also coaching/managing a team of four including three designers and one videographer. The ideal candidate for this role will have a passion for innovation and creativity, and will continuously bring new ideas and training to the creative team to advance their skillsets, delivery, and portfolios to drive greater awareness, demand generation, and brand equity for AffiniPay’s branded products, while also supporting internal creative initiatives. This individual will also need to collaborate easily with cross-functional teams and have a strong understanding of project management to create a balanced workload for the creative services team.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with Director of Creative Services to ensure the creation, design, and implementation of marketing collateral (though print, digital, video, animation and events).
- Taking existing brand identity elements and incorporating them across all materials for a consistent customer experience.
- Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
- Broad knowledge of creative execution and passion for exploring new creative concepts and techniques to create an environment of continuous learning for the creative services team
- Producing print designs for a number of communications vehicles including brochures, print advertisements, direct mail, promotional materials, training materials, special events/trade show materials, etc.
- Producing digital designs for communication vehicles such as email, landing pages, websites, banner ads, and social media.
- Producing physical and digital deliverables to support internal initiatives from C-level meeting presentations to swag for company disbursement and events.
- Executing design updates and revisions as per needs of the company.
- Contributing to the creative process through collaboration in a team environment.
- Liaison with multiple vendors for execution, distribution, and print protocols.
Requirements:
- 2+ years experience at AffiniPay
- 6+ years experience in creative design
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with ability to prioritize and multi-task. Strong sense of initiative and ability to work under pressure on multiple projects.
- Passion to manage and coach a team
- Desire to continue advancing personally in terms of design and managerial skill sets
- Ability to design strategically
- Strong portfolio of visual design
- Ability to collaborate effectively
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Flexibility to shift priorities quickly within a fast-paced work environment
- Ability to handle multiple projects under tight deadlines
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Agency/client experience is a plus
- Active in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- MAC
- Fundamental visual, typographic, and print and electronic design disciplines and principals