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Job Description
Senior Custom Graphic Designer - Apparel
Are you a diverse, imaginative, senior level graphic designer with a broad range of design aesthetics to create custom concepts across industries ranging from music, professional sports, premium destinations, corporate, and lifestyle brands?
This role reports to and works in conjunction with the Director of Creative Services to ensure the quality, integrity, and execution of graphic design projects. To succeed in this role, you will be able to recreate logos and other designs in vector format from rasterized source images and work across the entire design process, including but not limited to conceptualizing from a design brief, creation of several viable options, gathering feedback, performing revisions, and producing production ready art files of approved designs. No travel is required for this role.
Who You Are For The Team
You have 5 years of experience in graphic design, preferably in an apparel company with a strong brand ethos. Prior experience in screen printing is required.
Our client is a full-service lifestyle apparel brand delivering unique products backed by our 100% comfort guarantee. They serve as a trusted partner to premium corporate brands, resorts, professional sports, music and entertainment markets as well as selling their own brand directly to consumers. They work in a relaxed environment but quickly and with agility. They own comfort inside and outside the organization!
Their people are their passion and they incorporate their core values of teamwork, can-do attitude, integrity, respect, evolve and fun into everything they do. They are all building together, each of them owning and growing their pieces of the business. Since they’ve started, they’ve been able to help over 4 million people feel comfortable and work with some pretty awesome people and brands along the way.
Building a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to their success. They welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
Senior Custom Graphic Designer - Apparel
Are you a diverse, imaginative, senior level graphic designer with a broad range of design aesthetics to create custom concepts across industries ranging from music, professional sports, premium destinations, corporate, and lifestyle brands?
- Portfolio of recent work must be submitted for consideration* (please ensure portfolio link is active and working to be considered)
This role reports to and works in conjunction with the Director of Creative Services to ensure the quality, integrity, and execution of graphic design projects. To succeed in this role, you will be able to recreate logos and other designs in vector format from rasterized source images and work across the entire design process, including but not limited to conceptualizing from a design brief, creation of several viable options, gathering feedback, performing revisions, and producing production ready art files of approved designs. No travel is required for this role.
Who You Are For The Team
You have 5 years of experience in graphic design, preferably in an apparel company with a strong brand ethos. Prior experience in screen printing is required.
- You have a strong visual sense and your own unique style. Illustration skills are preferred.
- High proficiency in Illustrator and Photoshop with strong typography Skills.
- You have experience with the custom design process to be able to execute screen print ready designs.
- You can work independently with high output balancing multiple projects at a time while still engaging with the team.
- You are innovative and pride yourself on being up to date on current trends, creating with confidence, and raising the bar for the Creative Department.
- You can balance creativity with organization and time management to be able to nimbly react to change requests and new orders without sacrificing quality.
- You seek out feedback and input from others using it to grow as a designer and deliver the best possible outcome for clients.
- Produce custom artwork and regular art requests developing from thumbnail sketches all the way through final execution.
- Create apparel graphics for some of the biggest brands in the country from sports teams and bands to lifestyle brands including our client’s own D2C brand.
- Help our client grow through re-orders (i.e. deliver awesome artwork that makes customers want to come back again and again) and through new business (i.e. being known for awesome artwork delivering art to prospects when they need it)
- Ensure Art requests are facilitated on time and kicked out with great quality, communicating on status updates, and driving new levels of performance, efficiency and quality for the team.
- Elevate design of the products by conducting brand research and playing with concepts and ideas.
- In addition to offering a community of awesome people you will get to spend time with every day, you'll also receive the following:
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, HSA and 401K match
- Generous PTO and sick time
- 12 paid holidays annually including your birthday
- Company learning, wellness, and team building events
- Annual apparel credit for brand items and quarterly clothing purges (free clothes anyone?)
- The opportunity to make a difference with teammates who believe in our core values of teamwork, can-do attitude, integrity, respect, fun, and evolve
- This role has an opportunity to grow and evolve for the person who embraces our core values, has a strong drive for results, and desire to take on new challenges
Our client is a full-service lifestyle apparel brand delivering unique products backed by our 100% comfort guarantee. They serve as a trusted partner to premium corporate brands, resorts, professional sports, music and entertainment markets as well as selling their own brand directly to consumers. They work in a relaxed environment but quickly and with agility. They own comfort inside and outside the organization!
Their people are their passion and they incorporate their core values of teamwork, can-do attitude, integrity, respect, evolve and fun into everything they do. They are all building together, each of them owning and growing their pieces of the business. Since they’ve started, they’ve been able to help over 4 million people feel comfortable and work with some pretty awesome people and brands along the way.
Building a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to their success. They welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
