Senior Digital Designer

Remote (United States)

The Senior Digital Designer possesses a high level of expertise in designing digital products, including HTML emails, website and landing pages, digital advertising banners, and social media assets. They excel at working both independently and in a group to deliver high-quality, contemporary designs to multiple audiences while following client brand guidelines, best practices, and providing best-in class service across all digital.

Responsibilites & Qualifications

Essential Functions

Use expert knowledge of cutting-edge techniques, trends and best practices to design a variety of high-visibility digital projects — from social media content, HTML emails, websites, landing pages, and banners, to presentations and data-visualizations. Design intuitive, elegant flows and experiences as well as low-to-high fidelity prototypes for mobile and responsive web solutions. Concept, design, and development of digital advertising and social media graphics including animated gifs. Consistently deliver fresh ideas and concepts across all digital mediums.
Ensure all work aligns with current accessibility standards and best practices.
Uses knowledge of digital communication platforms, including how the general public uses each one and the visual languages and tones on each; to contribute to digital strategy and planning initiatives.
Designs and constructs newsletters, automated emails, thank you pages and preference centers for a variety of ESP and automation platforms. In collaboration with the Digital Producers, organizes and coordinates all digital resources and assets required for email marketing campaigns including tests, rendering troubleshooting and other day-to-day email needs.
Design and update website pages using a CMS; some Wordpress/HTML/CSS coding knowledge preferred.
Interact with Project Management to plan project schedules and concept direction. Works with other designers, developers, copywriters, and channel & content strategists on a per email/campaign basis. Partners with teammates to evolve the work, solve problems and keep projects moving forward.
Reviewed and/or test all creative deliverables for quality and accuracy. Correctly catalog all creative deliverables and assets upon project completion.

Other Responsibilities

Maintains accurate daily time sheets.
Performs other work-related responsibilities which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job.
Understands and abides by the agency’s business practices and philosophies as well as understands R&R’s policies and procedures.

Expectations

Provides the team with mentoring opportunities and takes an active interest in the success and career development of the team.
Understands and aligns work to meet objectives identified in the creative brief; presents a strong creative POV.
Explores new ways to capitalize on pop-culture trends and emerging technologies.
Pursues learning opportunities to enhance and evolve and expand creative skills.
Delivers persuasive presentations to groups of all sizes, both internally and client facing.
Can work with little instruction on day-to-day projects and general instructions on new assignments.
Exemplifies R&R’s culture by exhibiting candor, vigilance, ingenuity, drive and tenacity; and by being respectful, accountable, loyal, open-minded and having integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in design-related discipline or equivalent experience. Minimum five (5) years digital design experience in an agency environment preferred. Excellent online design portfolio that showcases a wide range of creative skills. Demonstrated expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (XD, Photoshop, Illustrator), Figma, and UI/UX fundamentals. Knowledge of HTML/CSS preferred. Video editing and 3-D software knowledge helpful.
Must be an outstanding performer demonstrating selfless leadership, showing initiative, and fostering environments that yield quality and quantity of individual and team performance. Must be able to multi-task and comprehend written and verbal instructions. Must be self motivated and able to work unsupervised at home or in the office. Must be dependable, punctual, and available to work overtime and weekends on short notice. Must be organized with excellent prioritization skills. Must have effective interpersonal skills.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copiers and filing cabinets.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.