Designer (Outdoor Industry)

The Program partners with the world’s most competitive and innovative brands to develop highly strategic and creative solutions. We are the insights to action agency. At our core, we are problem seekers and thought partners. Our unique model challenges global, iconic brands to navigate moments of transformation and engage their ever-evolving future consumer.

We are looking for a Designer to join our Portland, Oregon agency. As a designer in this role, you’ll primarily focus on our client-parters in the outdoor industry (hike, hunt, shoot, fish, camp, and more). Do you have a passion for creative design and a solid understanding of how brands in the outdoor industry connect with their consumer? Do you help solve complex business challenges through inspiring creative and design systems? Is workshopping design decisions with a strategist part of your workflow? Are you learning how to push boundaries both when extremely rigid guardrails exist and when they do not? 

As a Designer, you will play a critical role in shaping the visual direction across a variety of assignments, ensuring creative excellence across all touchpoints. The right candidate will have a track record of driving experiences in a wide range of media from initial concept to final hand-off, and can communicate their vision clearly and with confidence. The right person must have a finger on the pulse of style, outdoor recreation, sport, culture, media and a host of other interests that inform their ideas and their designs.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualization and expand high-quality design systems
• Ability to design for a variety of audiences, brands, and industries.
• Concept campaign-level experiences and see the work through from ideation to execution
• Conceptualize and create digital, social, and interactive experiences for use across a variety of brand campaigns
• Growing ability to present design concepts to stakeholders, sell them on the vision, and incorporate feedback effectively.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, design tools, and emerging technologies.
• Develop and maintain design guidelines to ensure consistency across all touchpoints.
• Understand that consumers' time is limited and platform constraints are always a concern, and you build your concepts accordingly.
• Ability to ensure aesthetic quality and details are consistent across all creative you touch. You strive to be pixel-perfect.

Qualifications

• 5 years of digital design experience across various disciplines (brand, interactive, etc)
• 3 years of creative agency experience working on projects for big brands with passionate consumers
• Ability to make the complex simple with strong digital design chops and original artistic style
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and other creative tools.
• Self-starting difference-maker with proven yet developing presentation, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Strong portfolio showcasing a variety of design projects and creative problem-solving skills (and please clearly indicate your role in the overall project).

Reports To

• The Designer role reports to an Creative Director.

Details

• This is an in-office Portland, Oregon position with three days per week in office. A hybrid approach will make up the other two days per week, with additional days in office per week as needed or required by management. We’re committed to maintaining a professional level of flexibility for our team to do their best work. *We are open to fully remote candidates as well on a per case basis.
• The salary band for this role is $60,000-$80,000.
• We provide a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays, vacation/personal time, 401k matching, 401k loans, health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, paid paternity and maternity leave, and more.

To Apply

Click the link below to submit your resume, relevant links that demonstrate your skills and interests, and to tell us a little bit about yourself.

*No recruiters, please.