This position is located in our St. Louis office but is eligible for a hybrid schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AOA staff to understand their vision and objectives, ensuring the creation of high-quality visual media that aligns with AOA's design criteria. This involves attending cross-functional meetings to gather direction for compelling collateral and presentations, such as PDFs, logos, social media imagery, emails, websites, and slides.
• Create dynamic design elements, including motion graphics, video, and GIFs, for various platforms.
• Coordinate design processes from end to end, proactively communicating project status, needs, and questions to ensure that goals and deadlines are met. This includes gathering information, seeking feedback, editing, securing approval, producing final products, and guiding print orders when necessary.
• Ensure the creative direction of multi-channel content campaigns aligns with the AOA's desired objectives with consistency.
• Maintain a graphics database and a library of graphics for version control, ensuring accessibility for the team. Evaluate the database for improvements and efficiency.
• Explore innovative and engaging ways to visually communicate the AOA's story. Share your design perspective with project teams and develop best practices for design on social media, email, and web platforms.
• Explore innovative and engaging ways to visually communicate the AOA's story. Share your design perspective with project teams and develop best practices for design on social media, email, and web platforms.
• Works within brand guidelines to maintain a consistent and cohesive visual identity across all AOA channels.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 3-5 years of experience successfully using graphic software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch, and Invision to create digital media.
• Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design, computer graphics, or related field required. Equivalent work experience in graphic design is acceptable in lieu of a degree.
• Proven collaborator with a history of working amongst diverse teams to execute graphic design projects smoothly and effectively across multiple marketing channels required.
• Track record of successfully building and/or converting graphic designs or concepts into the correct format and image sizes for multiple uses such as email, social media, website, etc.
• Experience working within the parameters of an organizational brand guideline and understanding the need for consistency in brand presentation.
• Strong working knowledge of design principles, print design, typography, photography, videography, and animation.
• Advanced in graphic publications such as Adobe Creative Cloud, with emphasis on Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch, Acrobat Pro and Invision.
• Proficient in Office 365.
• Previous experience with HTML/CSS is a plus.
• Experience with Asana or other project management platforms would be beneficial.