Junior Graphic Designer

Banff Sunshine Village is a world-class ski and snowboard resort in Banff, Alberta, famed for Canada's Best Snow. The Graphic Designer is responsible for creating content for the resorts digital and print advertisements, on-mountain signage, websites, brochures, menus and more. This role will work closely with the Senior Web and Graphic Designer and the Sales and Marketing teams to animate the Sunshine experience and will effectively communicate with all departments throughout the Resort.

• Working with the content creators, reviewing their output for accuracy and adherence to brand guidelines, implementing design strategies to achieve the organization's marketing and branding objectives, and collaborating with the team to conceptualize and develop creative design solutions in alignment with project goals, target audience, and deliver outstanding creative work.
• Utilizing graphic design expertise to execute projects, integrating skills in typography, composition, alignment, color theory, hierarchy, legibility, and motion design to create visually captivating graphics, animations, and layouts across a diverse range of digital and print media, effectively conveying the intended message.
• Managing multiple design projects, overseeing their lifecycle from conceptualization to completion, ensuring alignment with the company's visual identity and brand guidelines, and provide guidance and training to team members as necessary.
• Creating wireframes and mock-ups of visually appealing website/app designs that are responsive, user-friendly, accessible, adhere to best practices, align with business objectives, maintain consistency with Banff Sunshine Village's brand, and provide front-end development support to team members and other departments as needed.
• Customizing, designing, updating, editing, iterating, optimizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting our Shopify retail store, integrating and configuring relevant apps and plugins for enhanced functionality, leveraging data analytics to inform design decisions, and providing guidance and training to team members as necessary.
• Assisting with the recording and editing of Sunshine branded podcast. Training provided.
• Assisting in the implementation of media relations, communications, and marketing strategies.
• Assisting in researching, writing, and editing press releases, website copy, fact sheets and additional communication materials.
• Assisting to create and capture daily content at the resort for all of Banff Sunshine Villages Social Media platforms and post it online, in accordance with the Sunshine Social Schedule. Assist in monitoring Banff Sunshine Village Social Media platforms, respond to guests inquiries.
• Taking direction from the VP of Brand & Communications, and the Marketing, Communications and Events Supervisor to check in with various departments on-mountain.
• Assisting with the set-up, running, and teardown of all events.
• Acting as an ambassador and mediator; throughout all aspects of work as per Banff Sunshine Village brand policy.

Other duties may be requested and assigned from time to time.

• Outgoing, energetic, social and creative personality.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, After Effects and ln Design) and video editing software such as Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro is a must.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in public relations, communications, journalism, marketing or advertising (preferred) - OR - equivalent work experience in public relations, copy writing, events, photo/video creation and editing within social media focused environments (content creation).
• Excellent writing ability with significant…