Launch International | AIGA Philadelphia

Launch International is a strategy and services firm that helps companies build and execute high-performance, integrated marketing and sales enablement programs. We help our clients rethink the way they approach interactions with customers and prospects – both through their campaign activities and their sales conversations – to make sure they are insight-based, customer-centric, aligned to the audience and need, and synchronized across both marketing and sales activities.

Summary
As a senior designer, you’ll work alongside our managing directors and copywriters, working in an open pool working with both established and new accounts. Our clients all have established brands, and you’ll help them stretch to places they never dreamed possible through your design and production of things like infographics, videos, ebooks, case studies, micro sites, sales playbooks, presentations and more. You will learn and grow every day, and no two projects will be the same.

Responsibilities

To monitor design workloads, and monitor all schedules to ensure on time delivery
Act as a design senior, mentor, or idea producer/sounding board for staff designers
To foster teamwork between design and copy groups
To participate in brainstorming sessions
To build or help us identify new design business, and to visit/present to clients
Support client work through delivery of creative consulting and services
Develops promotional items for our company
Develops systems/processes to more effectively integrate design into our service mix
Ability to provide sound design strategy and suggestions to improve
Research client markets & read industry publications to learn the industry and stay abreast of interesting information that will enhance our design work, provide added-value to them by being more knowledgeable, and leverage us into new client areas

Skills Requirements:

Minimum 5 years of experience in creative production and management
Act as a design senior, mentor, or idea producer/sounding board for staff designers
Must have extensive knowledge of MAC system and related design software including Adobe Creative Cloud, especially InDesign to include hyperlinks, URLs, style sheets and setting up navigation. Also, Quark Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word & PowerPoint (and other Microsoft applications), Email, and HTML, Dreamweaver and landing page development. Also must know how to search for and download graphics and photography. For PPT, must be able to create master pages, hyperlinking, URLs, navigation and animations, embedding video, building charts and graphics, creating brand templates
Must have experience adhering to brand standards, and extending the brand in new and creative ways
Mastery in best practices for visual design, and be able to recommend strategies to address opportunities
Must have exceptional communications skills in order to effectively streamline design process
Must be able to review/assess a project and predict hours/budget for it within a narrow margin of error
Must have the ability to take content/research data and tell a visual story/design infographics
Track record of performance meeting/exceeding deadlines and client expectations
Must be able to actively engage in developing design strategies for mobile platforms
Must have thorough understanding of multimedia development processes, including software requirements, how to storyboard, produce, and manage outsourced resources
Experience working in a CMS
Must be comfortable in a matrixed setting where direction can come from multiple individuals
Must be flexible, self-motivated and enthusiastic, a “business champion”

Application Instructions
To apply, please forward resume and work samples to recruiter@launchintl.com
No calls, please.