Junior Art Director

Here’s what you need to have: 

• Strong conceptual abilities, remarkable art direction skills and a solid knowledge of the digital landscape
• Experience in branding and bringing brand to life through connected activation.
• You can envision a photo shoot, supporting the development of a shot list and working with a photographer, stylist and others.
• Presentation skills demonstrating clear vision of how the work addresses the brand’s challenges.
• Talent to inspire team members and key stakeholders with compelling visual design.
• Ability to lead and mentor younger creatives in their development.
• Desire to work collaboratively as part of a larger team in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent typography skills& Creative Suite pro 
• Must be able to see a project from start to finish … meaning from name to logo design, package design to product display pages, and marketing emails and banners and potential social activations.
• Good attitude and ready to work hard in a super-fast-paced but friendly environment.
• Good sense of humor who loves kids a major plus.
• Solid social platform concepting experience also a major plus.
• Speed and efficiency

We hustle every day. So do you. 

General Responsibilities: 

The Junior Art Director is responsible for contributing ideas, designing artwork and upholding the brand standards of Evenflo and its partner brands at the direction of the Creative Director.  

• Ensure brand design consistency across projects according to our brand style guidelines. 
• Design campaigns, participate in brainstorming, conceptualizing and creating visual content aligned with the Executive Team’s vision. 
• Create exemplary, intuitive visual design solutions across all internal brand campaigns including presentations, packaging, POP, posters, banners, site, emails, illustrations/graphics and logos. 
• Work closely with the team project manager to meet deadlines for various deliverables across the organization. 
• Support in building and utilizing templates to create efficiencies and consistency across designs 
• Ability to drive color correction hi-res images and patterns, editing logos, and adjusting environments/backgrounds  
• Update, record, organize and maintain a shared library of icons, logos, photos and other assets 
• Prepare and develop materials for line reviews and industry trade shows (presentation boards, support literature, 2D/3D product mockups, signage) 
• Create with relentlessly high standards when it comes to design and innovation 
• Develop designs in an extremely fast-paced environment without compromising quality  

Required Technical Competencies 

• Excellent Verbal and Written Communication Skills 
• Works well within the context of a larger team of Brand Marketing, Product Marketing Managers and other teams 
• Able to multi-task and reorder priorities when necessary 
• Team player and professional approach to creative and production 
• Proficient Computer Skills
• Mac Systems with Mac OSX 
• Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, XD, Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Office 

Desired Secondary Competencies 

• Experience with helping to execute broader marketing plans, contributing to design briefs and managing junior designers.

Required Behavioral Competencies 

• Contributes to Team Success– Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals. 
• Initiates Action– Takes prompt action to accomplish objectives; acts to achieve goals beyond what is required; is proactive. 
• Innovation– Generates innovative solutions in work situations; tries different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities. 
• Manages Work– Effectively manages one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently. 
• Stress Tolerance– Maintains stable performance under pressure or opposition (such as time pressure or job ambiguity) handles stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and to the organization. 
• Work Standards– Sets high standards of performance for self and others assumes responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self imposes standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed. 

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