Reporting to the Manager, Marketing Programs, this position is responsible for designing and maintaining quality control for a variety of design deliverables. In collaboration with various project leads, the Graphic Designer will create innovative design concepts for implementation across a variety of mediums, managing creative rounds and ensuring each item is delivered on time and on brand.

Expected Contributions:

Graphic Design

• Produce fresh new creative concepts, and adapt existing ones, to meet communications objectives across a variety of media.
• Collaborate with internal teams, Web Designer and freelance designers, cultivating new, innovative ideas and strategies.
• Review requirements with project leads and apply concepts that are on strategy on budget and on time.
• Work with suppliers to get quotes, develop and utilize cost-effective print procedures, ensure quality control, and manage production through to project completion.

Usability Design

• Present complex information in a visually pleasing and intuitive structure.
• Effectively develop interactive presentations using a variety of software applications to create on and off screen presentations.
• Produce marketing materials, sales tools and forms that allow the end user to accomplish their task with ease and reinforce behavior for sales.
• Develop easy to use templates with a consistent structure (i.e. fonts, colors, hierarchy and brand), and train internal editors on how to use them.

Quality Control & Brand Management

• Act as a brand expert, understanding, adhering and applying brand standards to all design deliverables.
• Liaise with credit union partners and third parties to provide guidelines and materials that meet brand standards.
• Ensure each round of creative is thoroughly inspected for errors and deficiencies prior to distribution to stakeholders.
• Check final artwork against the spec sheet; ensuring that all colours, sizing and formatting is correct per the supplied specs.
• Route creative through the appropriate channels and obtain sign-off on final artwork from key stakeholders.
• Flight-check and execute production files.
• Ensure all art files are collected, archived and appropriately named for future access.

Experience & Qualifications Required:

• 5-7 years design experience.
• Working knowledge of the credit union system/financial industry an asset but not required.
• Creative thinker with the ability to take projects from concept to completion.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.
• Expert knowledge of CS3 or higher (specifically: InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator and Dreamweaver) and Microsoft Office (specifically: PowerPoint, Word and Excel).
• Experience working with Flash, web graphics and HTML is an asset
• Basic knowledge of asp.net and java an asset but not required.
• Proficient in a MAC environment.

Education Required:

• Graphic Design Diploma and/or Degree
• Marketing and web related courses