Associate Designer, Digital Jobs

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Summary
The Stuart Weitzman Creative team is seeking a skilled Associate Designer, Digital to join the Creative team, reporting to the Senior Design Manager, Digital. This role will be to create engaging designs and layouts that reinforce the brand’s visual language to support global marketing, business needs and brand-building initiatives, inclusive of ecommerce, digital marketing, campaign execution support, interactive experiences and more. The ideal candidate will be able to create innovative, compelling design solutions that balance art and commerce, as well as be a creative thinker, passionate designer, skilled and open collaborator, and an artist at heart.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Create consumer-driven, on-brand designs for Stuart Weitzman's global marketing initiatives and digital platforms, including the website, social media, email campaigns, lookbooks and digital advertisements.
• Work closely with the Creative, Editorial and Content Operations teams to execute content strategy plans in a manner that is on time and on brand.
• Produce high-quality graphics, illustrations, and multimedia content that align with brand guidelines.
• Assist on e-Commerce Photoshoots.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the Stuart Weitzman brand, target audience, and market trends to inform design decisions.
• Meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Skills And Abilities Required

• Strong attention to detail.
• A portfolio demonstrating a strong command of digital design principles, including web and mobile design, typography, and visual storytelling.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experienced in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro), Figma
• Flexibility to adapt to feedback from stakeholders and leadership.
• Animation skills preferred.
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices, with the ability to translate user needs into intuitive and visually appealing digital designs.
• Experience creating responsive designs optimized for various devices and screen sizes.
• Clear understanding of typography, color theory, layout design, and visual hierarchy.
• Strong understanding and experience with digital retouching and image production.

Education And Experience Required

• Experience with motion graphics and video editing software.
• Proven understanding of e-Commerce platforms and digital marketing channels.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and web development concepts is a plus.
• 2-3 Years of proven experience as a digital designer, preferably in the fashion or luxury industry.
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Digital Design, or a related field.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Stuart Weitzman is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Stuart Weitzman at www.stuartweitzman.com.