New York City | Creative Team | Reports to Creative Director

 

The opportunity  

We are looking for a Graphic Designer to join our growing team who is passionate about all things design: from email and website updates, to print and packaging, to brand development, retail design, and content creation—this role will execute on a variety of design problems. Must be collaborative, conceptual, willing to learn new design disciplines, and used to working in a fast-paced environment.

 

This role reports directly to the Creative Director, and is a full-time role based in our New York City Headquarters.

 

Responsibilities

• Provide support to Creative Director in the creation of design across a variety of mediums: retail, social, email, web, print, packaging, etc.
• Keep up to date on trends in design, branding, art, advertising, and fashion.
• Apply design skills and creativity to complex business problems from conception to production.
• Be a proactive problem solver by seeking out opportunities to better our visual communication and design.
• Execute innovative creative ideas to advance Argent’s brand vision.
• Partner and collaborate with other team members to unite the visual brand guidelines and consistency across design and any assets.
• Create social content including graphics, illustrations, and typography.
• Production work for digital, and print assets, as well as photo retouching notes.

  

Who you are

• Strong conceptual thinker with design sensibilities.
• Results driven with a can-do and positive attitude and abundance of optimism.
• Highly adept in your approach to problem solving while being known for delivering creative solutions.
• A collaborative team player with an interest in learning and listening to others.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and hardworking with a positive attitude.
• Detail-oriented.
• Possesses empathy, kindness, humility, and a sense of humor.

 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and 3+ years of experience in a Graphic Designer role for ecomm, an agency, or in-house creative team.
• Strong conceptual skills.
• Well organized, detailed, and solutions oriented.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite - Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge a must. Lightroom, after effects and any others are a plus.
• Working knowledge of Sketch.
• Strong typography and layout skills.
• Experience creating gifs and/or animation a plus.
• Knowledge of packaging dielines a plus.
• Experience in spatial or retail design a plus.
• Must have a resume and an online portfolio of work to be considered.

 

What we offer

• A positive, enthusiastic, and passionate team.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Health benefits for eligible employees.
• Paid vacation and holidays for eligible employees.
• Clothing discount.