Senior Digital Designer

Job Title

Job Description

I. Job Summary | Major goals and objectives.

TheBrandDesign team at Dotdash Meredith Digital defines thebrand experience for premium brands such as People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple,Travel Leisure, Healthand many more. We are building engagingbrandexperiences that excite users and amplify the voice of our brands.

We are looking for aDigital Designer II to help define and refresh brand identities across our portfolio of sites. In this role youwork closely with the Creative Director and other designers to craftcohesive brand design experiences. You must be collaborative in your approach to internal stakeholders, while simultaneously and vigorously championing the consumer experience.

As aDigital Brand Designer II at Dotdash Meredith you will be responsible for doing competitive research,designing the look and feel of various brand elements and refining and iterating on those ideas for various stakeholders.

II. Essential Job Functions

Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

Design

• Use requirements and stakeholder feedback to producedesign assets such as brand guidelines, editorial images, and social graphics

Collaborate with Design and Edit teams

• Attend meetings with stakeholders from editorial, social, video, and growth teams.

• Attend Recurring Design Team meetings and other group functions.

• Present design solutions and help build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders.

• Participate in brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big-picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details.

Process Management

• Keep project management tickets up to date, communicate progress, keep files organized, follow slack channels, and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Help maintain cohesive expressions of visual identities for multiple brands.

• Take ownership of assigned design projects, collaborate with stakeholders and other designers, take direction from Creative/Art Directors, and follow established processes to ensure smooth delivery of creative assets.

• Create digital production art including photo treatments, logos, illustrations, and social media assets.

• Concept and produce custom artwork as directed for various digital brand channels including Editorial, Social, Video, and Growth.

• Collaborate with UX design team and Design Operations team as needed.

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.

Education: Bachelor's degree, or equivalent education and experience

Experience: 4-7 years experience as a designer

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite

• Strong typography skills

• Strong editorial design skills

• Illustration skills

• Publishing industry experience a plus

• Knowledge of HTML and CSS a plus but not essential

• Knowledge of motion graphics a plus

• Self-motivated and highly-organized

• Strong attention to detail

• Excellent communication skills

• A team player ready to work in a fast-paced environment

It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here:https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

Pay Range

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.In addition,Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.