Creative Strategist

Come Grow With Spacesaver! Spacesaver is currently recruiting for a Creative Strategist to join our team. As a Creative Strategist at Spacesaver, you will lead the concept, design, production, and project coordination of internal and external marketing and communications content—increasing Spacesaver brand recognition and driving revenue and market share. These campaigns include the development of integrated marketing elements, such as brochures, product launch sales tools, trade show graphics, website, video, email, collateral, and other tactics as appropriate.

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please submit your portfolio as an attachment or submit a website address or addresses that you have contributed to and include an attachment explaining your personal contribution to the websites. Only those applicants who provide a portfolio or website addresses will be considered.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Graphic Design

• Oversee and protect the Spacesaver design standards
• Lead the design portion of all marketing campaigns and visual content creation
• Work in a fast-paced environment to develop concepts through completion—working within our brand guidelines and the expectations of each project
• Collaborate with the Webmaster, Digital Marketing Specialist, Copywriter, and Marketing Specialist to develop an understanding of our users, brand positioning and communication 
• Interpret company needs and develop concepts to suit specific guidelines while working within budget constraints. Provide accurate time and cost estimates for each tactic
• Present design work at various stages to stakeholders for review and final approval 
• Interface with printers and various external vendors. Attend press checks and participate in photo shoots as needed.
• Collaborate with team members to help build a consistent UX/UI design with all Spacesaver web sites and design consistent and effective email campaigns
• With the assistance of the Marketing Manager, Vertical Marketing Sales Manager and Trade show Coordinator, the Creative Strategist will drive the creation and design of Spacesaver’s national and regional trade show booths. This includes, but is not limited to, product suggestions, graphics on the product, backdrop design, and truss design. 

Video Production

• Drive the creation of visual/video stories to our internal and external audiences
• Follow best practices needed for best image and graphic aesthetics and audio
• Utilize avariety of file formats for digital media

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, advertising or related discipline
• Three or more years of experience in branding, print and web design, working within an in-house creative department or other creative team environment and with at least 1 year experience in a business-to-business environment
• An impressive portfolio, with core strength in visual design
• Mastered composition techniques (multiple elements and interactive pieces) in producing polished final pieces
• Comprehensive photo-retouching and image development skills
• Demonstrated complete understanding of:

Color theory and color relationships

Typographic terms that identify type forms and the specifications required to refer to typographic settings

Perspective and space relationships

Page composition and grid structures

Print production process and knowledge of production techniques

Photography and the photographic process

Video production and editing

Web page and e-mail layout design and production

• Results-orientated, deadline-driven and used to working in a fast-paced, team-focused environment
• Ability to maintain multiple marketing channels with strong communication of goals and results both within the team and with management
• Command of marketing concepts, including customer purchase-decision models, segmentation, targeting, engagement and satisfaction, and marketing effectiveness
• Ability and willingness to think strategically and act/implement very tactically
• Proficient with relevant design related programs, including Adobe Creative Cloud Suite; including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Microsoft Office products including PowerPoint, Word, Excel or similar
• Proficient in video editing and motion graphics suites, such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects.
• Experience with audio design and video editing
• Familiarity with WordPress and Google Analytics

Why Work at Spacesaver?

• Flexible schedules
• Family friendly environment
• We welcome fresh and new ideas Employee owned (Yes, you can be part owner of Spacesaver!)
• We are innovating! (Exciting time to join us!)
• Transparency (We live it through our established town hall meetings,connection meetings with the CEO& electronic communication accessible 24/7)
• Spacesaver University (We offer free training courses to help you build skills & advance in your career)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Internal promotions
• Teamwork & collaboration is valued
• Onsite massage therapy
• Onsite registered nurse and occupational therapist at no cost to our team members
• $200 Wellness reimbursement for health club memberships per year
• Company contribution to health savings accounts
• 401K with company match (.50 for every dollar you contribute up to 8%) Profit sharing (annual 2% company contribution of regular earnings)
• Every Day is Jeans Day!
• Our Culture Team plans a lot of very fun team building activities! (Last week we had puppies, dunk tanks & ice cream-apply for this position to learn more about these fun events)
• We give back to our local communities! (We donated over 3000 items to our local food pantry in March. Our team members are very generous to those in need)
• The team members that work here are awesome!

Check out our website at www.spacesaver.com to learn more about us!