Graphic Designer (& Illustrator)

This is a Full Time Job

Who We Are
We are a collaborative studio of creators dedicated to telling the stories that matter to us and reinventing the way they're told. We believe stories inspire, mobilize, and connect us to one another. Without stories, we are empty homes and heads with no hearts. We seek out critical contributors and technical strategists that not only VIBE with our values (Versatility, Ingenuity, Better Together, and Excellence), but possess the grit and unwavering commitment to revolutionize the way YouTube stories are told.

Who We're Looking For
As Graphic Designer, your storytelling aptitude informs your ability to craft raw ideas into compelling messages, and synthesize complex information into cohesive visual deliverables. Your mission will be to leverage your tactical artistic skills to strategize and inform the design of our content. Your strategic creative vision is grounded in a solid and well researched strategy for understanding the inner workings of our brand and ensuring excellence in execution; creating clever and captivating branding packages that broaden and connect our audience to our stories. We're not looking for a passive note-taker. We want an innovator with refined skills and precision to communicate visually, while remaining flexible to iteration and collaboration.

Day to Day Responsibilities
• Driving visual marketing elements of our content; writing out elements and working stylistically to develop stories that build the tone of our brand and inform varying elements of our creative strategy
• Leading the visual and graphic language of all marketing materials to ensure our brand materials are engaging, cohesive, and impactful
• Translating the targeted mood and message of our content into things like color, texture, shape, style, and other elements of art to design and create thumbnails, show branding packages (YouTube channel art/aka banners, avatars, community posts content ), and social media art packages (media posts, on theme with show branding) from idea conception to final product.
• Merchandise and product design

Technical Skills
• Adobe Suite - Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• After Effects (preferred, not required)
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Internet Explorer)
• Notion (preferred, not required)
• Mac or Windows
• Google Suite (preferred, not required)
• Slack (preferred, not required)

Requirements
• Demonstrated ability to translate audience learnings and big picture expertise into actionable insights that shape artistic strategies.
• Senior level experience; portfolio should have work that displays the capacity for clever innovation, and the precision and skill to bring original innovations to life.
• Resume should reflect experience in art direction, global design marketing, leadership, results orientation, etc. Work in entertainment is required.
• Comprehension and passion for creativity that influences and enhances team deliverables as we engage in ideation, story writing, etc.
• Divergent thinking, ability to connect ideas not typically connected.
• Baseline understanding of YouTube analytics
• Able to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies and different work methodologies
• Able to work well under tight deadlines and quick project turnover
• Able to troubleshoot and solve problems independently

What We Are Thankful For
We are geeked about your interest and thankful for your time! Can't wait to hear your story and talk about the possibilities!