Call for Freelance Designers

Call for Freelance Designers

Provoc, a strategic marketing and communications firm specializing in outcome-driven design, is building our bench of freelance designers for a range of communication projects with nonprofits, foundations, and other clients working for equity and social justice.

This is not a full time job posting or immediate opportunity - designers would be engaged on a by-project contract basis as future opportunities arise. 

To submit:

Designers with experience in any of the core services and/or specializations below are encouraged to share your portfolio and/or resume, rates, specific areas of experience/expertise, and questions via this form. 

We are looking to build a team full of people with different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds and strongly encourage submissions from people of color, 2SLGBTQIA people, women, nonbinary people, people with disabilities, and/or people from any other systemically underrepresented group.  Provoc is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit.

Learn more about Provoc and see case studies of our work. 

Our core services

Branding and visual identity, including:

• • Logo design
  • Color, typography, iconography, graphic/image styles and other brand elements
  • Brand style guides
  • Print and digital collateral and templates (letterhead, reports, presentations, emails, etc.)
  • We are especially interested in designers with logo experience. 

Websites and user interface design, including:

• • Design reskins and full redesigns for websites ranging from microsite to enterprise level
  • Interaction and interactive design (UX and UI design with confident knowledge of accessibility standards, especially WCAG 2.2)
  • Wireframing, prototype testing, and usability testing
  • Flexible approach to website or product design, especially Agile design methodology
  • Experimental web technologies (such as WebGL and other javascript rich media)
  • We are especially interested in designers with some web development and coding skills as well, such as prototyping and tools like Webflow or Framer, and demonstrated experience implementing high accessibility standards. 

Campaign identity and collateral, including:

• • Campaign identity/treatment development
  • Social media graphics and templates (static and dynamic)
  • Digital advertisements
  • Video treatments (intros, outros, lower third, basic animation)
  • Emails
  • Landing webpages 
  • Print collateral (pamphlets, postcards, event signage, etc.)
  • We are especially interested in designers with experience in campaign or social strategy at large. 

Reports and toolkits, including:

• • Print and digital publications (from lean Google Docs, to fully original custom-designed documents to interactive online reports)
  • Infographics and data visualization
  • We are especially interested in designers with experience conceptualizing and designing custom graphics and illustrations. 

Additional skills we’re seeking

Specializations

• Creative direction
• Animation
• Illustration
• Motion graphics and video 
• 3D graphic implementation

Primary design tools used

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Canva
• Google documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides)

How we collaborate

At Provoc, we partner strategically with our clients and colleagues to produce accessible, strategic, modern design work. A fully remote company, our team works through Slack, Basecamp, and Zoom to collaborate live and asynchronously with each other and clients. Most of the company is U.S.-based, with our primary designers based in Europe (generally working until 1-2:30 p.m. ET). Depending on the scope of the project, contract designers may be either client-facing or internal-facing only. 

Ideal Provoc design collaborators:

• Understand and consider equity in the design process, such as accessible and inclusive design standards, cultural competency and humility in reaching different audiences, addressing bias and stereotypes in image selection, and more. 
• Bridge design and strategy, including translating strategy or messages developed by others into a design language or product, articulating the strategic choices behind design recommendations with a client, engaging clients through a design direction and process, and consulting throughout multiple phases of a project on design considerations or implications. 
• Bridge vocabulary gaps with colleagues and clients with patience and a goal of reaching shared understanding. 
• Are comfortable producing many ideas quickly while remaining objective and open to new ideas.
• Are able to workshop ideas and design updates live with clients.
• Self-start, take initiative, and are accountable to timelines and commitments. 
• Stay on top of current design trends and developments. 
• Accurately estimate the hours required to complete specific tasks or deliverables.
• Have availability that primarily falls between 8am-8 pm ET, Monday to Thursday, to collaborate with U.S.-based clients and colleagues.