Visual / Digital Designer Jobs

Visual/Digital Designer

We’re a rapidly-growing digital tech agency based in the Lower East Side of NYC that partners with innovative startups & Fortune 500 companies to develop gorgeous, data-driven products. As our agency continues to expand, we’re looking for a Visual Designer to serve our growing client base and help streamline our creative pipeline.

The ideal candidate should have strong organizational skills. More important than your prior experience is that you’re intrinsically motivated, detail-oriented, and driven with strong organizational abilities. We pride ourselves on both our agility as an agency as well as our “hire good people and get out of their way” recruitment philosophy, so we’re looking for someone who is quick on their feet and comfortable self-managing.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that your creative solution fulfills the strategic vision devised by the team into effective visual communication that helps drive marketing results and/or user needs.
• At this time, this role’s main focus will be designing email marketing materials for current and potential clients, as well as creating and maintaining design systems.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions for creative concept ideation and implementation.
• Uphold the design team processes, from ideation to deliverable handoff, including cross-functional team collaboration and dev handoff.
• Execute asset creation and production for digital marketing materials.

Need to have:

• 2+ years of experience in creative production of digital marketing and brand communications.
• Ability to develop & adhere to design systems for your projects.
• Strong organizational abilities, including asset, time, and resource management.
• Ideal specialties include email, web, and UI/UX.
• Experience working in a fast-paced Agency environment.
• Experience in digital asset creation (design, production & development handoff):
• Strong understanding of Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and design process best practices.
• A portfolio of recent work that shows your creative work to date.

Nice to have:

• Print production experience.
• Copywriting experience.
• Animation, illustration, and/or 3D experience.
• Client-facing experience & strong presentation skills.
• Social media content development experience.
• PowerPoint design experience.
• You've designed and built great tools with small teams in the past.

Who you are:

• You bring unique strengths and perspectives to the team. We're looking to build a diverse team where our skills and experience can complement each other.
• You’re passionate about technology, innovation, and understanding what makes creative highly effective.
• You’re agile, and can roll with changing timelines, budgets, and resource availability.
• You’re a critical thinker & have strong attention to detail.
• You are constantly staying up-to-date with changing trends in the design community, and you bring new ideas to the team.
• You have a background in digital design and have a strong command over typography, color, layout, branding, and design systems.

Working With Us:

The ideal candidate should excel in a laid-back startup environment, where we offer flexible hours and expect a self-directed work ethic from the entire team. We believe someone’s value comes from their intelligence, critical thinking, and ability to deliver high quality work, not the amount of time they spend sitting at a desk. As a small, talented team, our culture revolves around everyone being willing to jump in wherever needed.

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Research shows that men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Yet, women and other people who are systematically marginalized tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply. We are dedicated to considering a broad array of candidates, including those with diverse workplace experiences and backgrounds.

HYPED is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect, and does not unlawfully discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of an individual’s ace, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, compensation, promotion, discipline and termination.

Salary Range: 70-90K, based on level of incoming experience.

Company Description

We're the best team you've never heard of — HYPED is an NYC-based digital agency that focuses on analytics-based strategy and killer creative.