General Information:
Job Title: Junior Graphic Designer
Location: Hybrid
Practice Area: Marketing, Communications & Events
Reports to: Director, Design
Job Type: Full time Exempt
Salary: $50,000 – $60,000/yr
Position Purpose:
As a Junior Graphic Designer, you will collaborate and support the Marketing, Communications & Events team as well as key stakeholders across the organization. Your work will progress the overall mission of the 4A’s, create awareness of our offerings and improve engagement among members and prospects. This position reports to the Director, Design.
Qualities essential to thrive in this role:
- Passionate, innovative person who can pivot quickly and be detail-oriented in a fast-paced, virtual, highly creative environment.
- Clear communicator in person and in writing.
- Collaborative and supportive team player, who also excels as an independent, solutions-oriented designer/art director.
- Positive and professional with colleagues and partners.
- Flexible, open-minded, accountable and level-headed through unpredictability.
- Amenable to giving and receiving constructive feedback.
Position Responsibilities:
- Work on various 4A’s design and branding projects.
- Collaborate with team members on strategies, concepts and deliverables.
- Create on-brand visual assets and templates for web sites, email, social media, newsletter and white papers and all event materials (signage, badges, presentation decks, etc.).
- Assist in developing and operationalizing the 4A’s brand in templates and business documents.
- Update current materials for a brand refresh.
- Collaborate with the web development team on website updates, integrations, and custom projects and make website updates as needed in terms of posting content, updating copy, etc.
- Edit and manage videos and add graphic elements (Intro, lower thirds, music, cleanup audio, etc.).
Position Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience in design, with a portfolio including print and digital
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite (in particular Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop)
- Experience creating responsive website themes (HTML5, CSS, etc.), particularly for WordPress and Squarespace
- Detailed knowledge of image optimization techniques
- Strong organizational, verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to thrive in an environment with aggressive deadlines and changing priorities
- Ability to readily learn new tools and technologies
- Bonus knowledge – Animation/Illustration
- Experience at an ad agency setting or in-house marketing/creative/design team preferred.
About the 4A’s:
We focus on core values of Passion, Agility, Curiosity and Collaboration as we partner together to support and champion 4A’s members to help their business thrive as we also strive to move the industry forward.
- Great team with strong mission and energy
- Summer Fridays
- Week off between Christmas & New Year Holidays
- Enviable work/life integration
- Volunteer Days
What We Do: Our mission is to empower and equip our members to confidently navigate the ever-changing ecosystem of the agency world. We ensure they remain relevant, are positioned to compete and have the resources to thrive and grow. Our promise to our members? We aim to be an indispensable resource that is as accessible as their own agency team. We are dedicated to, and vested in, our members’ success, just as they are dedicated to helping brands create, distribute, and measure effective and insightful advertising and marketing. And we champion the infinite power of creativity and value agencies bring in driving business growth and powerful cultural change. The 4A’s drives business. With a focus on advocacy, talent, and impact, we provide community, thought leadership, research, guidance and best-in-class training that enable agencies to innovate, evolve and grow.
The 4A’s was established in 1917 to promote, advance, and defend the interests of our member agencies, employees and the advertising and marketing industries overall. Today the organization serves more than 600 member agencies across 1,200 offices, which help direct more than 85% of total U.S. advertising spend. The 4A’s includes the 4A’s Benefits division, which insures more than 160,000 employees; the government relations & sustainability team, who advocate for policies to support the industry; and the 4A’s Foundation, which advocates for and connects multicultural talent to the marketing industry by fostering a culture of curiosity, creativity and craft to fuel a more equitable future for the industry. Our vision for the future? Improve the health of the industry through the power of collective experience, expertise and impact. We are the 4A’s—empowering your success.
The 4A’s is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel policies are applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.
