Designer

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Overview:

Walker Sands is looking for a designer to join our integrated creative team in Seattle.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all parts of the design process — from ideation and concepting to production and critique.
• Create digital experiences (websites, digital advertising, presentations, data visualizations) that are optimized for conversion, accessibility and responsive screen sizes.
• Design purposeful layouts for print (sell sheets, posters, direct mail, trade show booths, long-form content) that prioritize readability and communicate strategic key messages.  
• Translate brand guidelines from the agency’s 100+ B2B clients into consistent expressions of their varied visual identity systems across digital and print. 
• Collaborate with copywriters and creative directors to ideate integrated marketing campaign concepts and see those concepts through to production
• Critique, challenge and celebrate the work of your colleagues during weekly creative reviews.
• Collaborate with the agency’s account leads, creative directors, designers, writers, developers and project managers.
• Articulate and defend design decisions in a clear and persuasive manner to facilitate the collection of feedback from design directors and other collaborators.

About you:

• You understand the principles of good design and are passionate about creating stunning visual experiences for screens, print and brands.
• You are relentlessly curious and constantly pursuing opportunities to better your skills.
• You value feedback as a critical means for personal and professional growth. 
• You love grids.
• You’re a self-starter with high ambitions and higher standards. You take direction and run with it, you can confidently defend your creative decisions and you’re comfortable voicing ideas to colleagues and clients.
• You have an online portfolio that shows off your meticulous layout, color and typographic skills.
• You have 2–4 years of experience and formal training in design.
• You’ve mastered Sketch and Adobe CC staples, such as Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
• You want to join a collaborative team that demands excellence, celebrates ideas over egos and likes each other as much as they enjoy their job.
• Bonus:

• You can create killer PowerPoint templates and custom decks.
• You have motion design skills and experience creating animations and GIFs.
• You are familiar with prototyping tools, such as InVision and Figma.

How to Apply