Visual Designer

SpotHero is seeking a great graphic designer to join the creative team in evolving our brand across both our consumer and operator-facing businesses. This individual will enhance SpotHero marketing collateral, web properties, and office spaces through imaginative, top-notch design. He or she should have a solid understanding of how to leverage visual design towards business objectives: strategic communication and improved user experience. Our ideal candidate interprets even vague direction into engaging creative, handles feedback gracefully, and can distinguish between levels of input to efficiently zero in on what matters.

Who we are:

SpotHero is a rapidly growing tech company that’s making life easier for the daily driver. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app or website to reserve discounted parking on-the-go or in advance.

What will I do?

• Strategize campaign ideas, coming up with visuals that enhance messaging and goals 
• Work on a fun, growing creative team within a multi-disciplinary marketing org to ensure the SpotHero look and feel extends to all marketing channels 
• Execute marketing collateral from conception through production spanning onesheets, case studies, websites, videos, swag, signage, and out-of-home as needed 
• Manage freelancer and contract work as needed, providing a first layer of feedback and guarding brand standards and guidelines at every turn 
• Collaborate with product design to ensure marketing and product design deliver consistency of experience 
• Own the printing process for all of your own work, including end-to-end file prep, liaising with print shops and suppliers and managing the relationships

You are:

• Fast. You've honed your creative muscle and keep yourself inspired so you can pump out ideas and visual concepts quickly without getting flustered by the rapid pace of a startup environment.
• Flexible. You know that sometimes favorite ideas wind up on the cutting room for. You're always willing to move on quickly and can multitask like nobody's business and switch gears on a dime.
• Communicative. You're assertive and would rather over-communicate than leave anyone guessing where a project is holding. You aggressively pursue the information you need to get your tasks accomplished.
• Meticulous. Your work is pixel-perfect, your files are organized. You proofread, you cross-check, you test links. Even if it's not technically *your*job. You fix other people's mistakes without needing to take credit for it.
• Proactive. You don’t wait to be told what to do. Come up with your own ideas and provide an implementation plan. You use downtime or brain-fried moments strategically to bank ideas, organize files for the greater team good, make headway on that low-priority task.
• Skilled. You've designed in a corporate environment before and are expert in all mainstay software, tools and tech. You know which questions to ask, when. You've got your own signature design style, as well as a working one—and you know how to play to your own strengths.

Prerequisites:

• 3 to 5 years of creative experience at a leading consumer brand, tech company or agency
• Experience in B2B marketing ideal
• Extensive portfolio of work across multiple communications channels, including online (web, mobile, display, email) and offline (print, direct mail, signage).
• Motion graphics and/or video editing skills a plus
• Academic design background
• Social and street smarts, high standards but minimal ego, lots of energy and motivation

What we are offering:

• Career game changer – A truly unique experience to work for a fast growing startup in a role with unlimited potential for growth.
• Excellent benefits – We cover 90% of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental & Vision Premiums, and offer company sponsored Life Insurance.
• Flexible PTO policy and great work/life balance – We value and support each individual team member.
• Fun perks like snacks, catered lunches, happy hours, wellness programs, and SpotHero swag.
• Annual parking stipend (duh – we're a parking company!).
• The opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual, yet highly productive atmosphere.
• A workplace recognized as the Startup of the Year by Built in Chicago and one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work for Women Under 35 by Crain’s Chicago Business.