We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Designer with expertise in digital design to join our dynamic creative team. This role combines creative design with technical proficiency to elevate our brand's visual storytelling across various digital platforms. Self-proficient and responsible for planning, concepting, layout, design, and post-production to produce high quality work that meets marketing objectives and drives results. The Senior Designer position will also be responsible for helping to apply and evolve the branding guidelines.
What You'll Do
Design Expertise
Create visually compelling designs using graphic design principles when designing (including but not limited to) digital assets, presentations, marketing collateral, tradeshow support, and other branding materials.
Develop innovative concepts and solutions that align with brand guidelines and project objectives. Maintains corporate identity, design standards, and policies
Develop creative for cross channel campaigns, ensuring cohesive visual storytelling and brand consistency across platforms.
Design and optimize user-friendly website layouts that enhance user experience and reflect current design trends and practices.
Collaborate with web developers to implement design solutions that are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and aligned with SEO principles.
Basic knowledge of HTML for email design and development.
Proficient in Figma for designing high-quality digital assets across platforms.
Be able to present design work to key stakeholders with design rationale and support with competitive analysis research.
Troubleshoot production problems and interact with company's staff and outside vendors regarding production issues.
Video Editing and Production
Edit and produce high-quality videos for marketing campaigns, social content, and other digital channels.
Handle the entire video production process from storyboarding, art direction, editing, sound mixing, and final delivery.
Collaboration and Project Management
Work closely with cross-functional teams including marketing leads and other teams to understand project requirements and deliver creative solutions.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining a high standard of quality.
Supervision Received or Extended
Trains and provides art direction for junior designers. Reviews work of less experienced graphic designers to ensure high quality.
Works independently under broad supervision
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships at the senior management level across functional groups and business units
What You'll Bring
Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in design, UI/UX, video production, and editing software/tools.
Utilize advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite (particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects)
Experience in Figma, as well as experience in email/landing page platforms such as Marketing Cloud and/or Hubspot preferred
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent proofreading and editing skills; able to interpret color specifications
Excellent time management, organization, and problem-solving skills
Detail oriented
Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and teamwork skills
Self-motivated; self-starter
Ability to manage multiple tasks, respond quickly to emergent problems, and focus both on long-range projects and immediate tasks
Proficient in Microsoft Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams)
Bachelor’s degree in Design, Fine Arts, Multimedia, or related field preferred.
Proven experience (5+ years) in graphic design with a strong portfolio showcasing creative and technical skills.
Demonstrated expertise in video editing and production with a solid understanding of videography principles and techniques.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to present ideas and work collaboratively within a team.
Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
Pay Range: $73,375 - $100,475 Annually
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **
First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).
First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.