Designer

Ketchum is looking for a Designer, a true social maker to join our award-winning content team. This person will be responsible for supporting our fully-integrated creative team, working closely with digital strategists, and account teams to develop/design a wide variety of social content for our clients. You must have a great understanding of layout, type and color with an aptitude for designing content for every social platform in the Western world—so Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram & TikTok. You’ll have a proven track record for innovative social solutions that are visually engaging and tell relatable stories.

About the Job:

How you’d be a great fit, you:

• Understand business objectives and how to work with clients to develop clear business cases around opportunities for creative engagement in social and digital media 
• Facilitate teamwork within client account team; coordinate team resources and create opportunities; fully utilize agency resources for clients 
• Create creative social assets to answer clients’ business needs 
• Identify and can effectively communicate creative trends, insight on emerging technologies and creative best practices in the digital/social space 
• Provide counsel to help account leads nurture and grow client relationships with new ways to expand creative reach in partnership with strategy 
• Contribute creative social content expertise to the development of holistic digital/ social strategies for clients 
• Serve as a creative counselor to clients, making recommendations and providing guidance on the type of content brands should create 
• Assist in producing content strategy documents for brands, including style guides, content and channel 
• Strategies, content audits, gap analyses, editorial calendars, content sourcing plans and production requirements, as needed 
• Write content concepts and bring to life creative ideas 
• In partnership with strategy, write editorial content for a range of on and off-line, owned and shared channels

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Multimedia or related discipline from an accredited college or university required 
• A minimum of 3-5 years of digital, print and presentation design experience 
• Demonstrated ability to develop conceptual visual ideas and execute against them to create innovative design solutions in a highly collaborative environment 
• Strong presentation and communication skills 
• Expert proficiency in current Mac versions of Adobe Creative Suite software, (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Acrobat) and Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, (animation experience a plus). 
• An ability to work with brand identity systems and shared design projects 
• Copywriting experience for digital assets: the ability to convey a brand message and a call to action that compliments the visuals of your content 
• An organized approach to delivering work under tight deadlines and shifting priorities. 
• You’re able to generate designs of consistently high quality 
• Demonstrated versatility to design in multiple styles ranging from simply sophisticated to cutting-edge visual storytelling 
• A background in brand identity and print/advertising design is a bonus, but not required.

What we offer:

• Robust benefits program 
• Generous time off policies 
• Retirement program with company match 
• Workplace flexibility 
• Business casual dress code 
• Workplace and off-site social gatherings 
• Yoga @ work 
• Professional learning and development opportunities 
• Tuition reimbursement 
• Paid maternity/paternity leave 
• Transit benefits

Interested? We’ve got an opportunity for you.