Brand & Digital Designer — Hybrid, Studio

‘We are HG’ is more than a URL, it's a promise: A commitment that you’ll partner with a team of marketing professionals who love what they do, and who they do it with. Each tactic we touch reflects our mission to positively impact the hearts, minds and environments of our communities.

General Purpose and Scope:
The Graphic Designer! This person will be responsible for designing and delivering graphic designs across several mediums to our clients. This person will work collaboratively with our design, creative, and account team to determine the design specs and, generally, design multiple concepts to be used in a single or wide array of mediums.

Responsibilities:

• Meet with clients or the art director to determine the scope of a project
• Advise clients on strategies to reach a particular audience
• Determine the message the design should portray
• Develop graphics and visual or audio images for product illustrations, logos, and websites
• Create designs either by hand or using computer software packages
• Select colors, images, text style, and layout
• Present the design to clients or the art director
• Incorporate changes recommended by the clients into the final design
• Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them

Scope of Decision-Making Authority:
Individual will work closely with the agency design team to collaborate on the design and development of creative projects running through Highland Group. The degree of empowerment for day-to-day decisions will increase as the employee gains familiarity with projects, clients, and teams. For assigned clients, individuals own primary client contact and will drive projects under the supervision of the Digital Director.

Individuals will need to understand and elevate issues as necessary.

Education:

• The successful candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree or a minimum of two years of commercial design/work experience.

Work Experience:

• Comfortable working under limited supervision, with sometimes tight and changing deadlines
• Agency or service-oriented business experience a plus

Skills and Knowledge:

• Comfortable working in a Mac environment
• Have a working knowledge of commercial design processes
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop and In Design
• Skilled at problem-solving through graphic design
• Team collaboration and comfortable working with others
• Works at developing strong relationships and communication skills

Behavioral Requirements:

• Excellent multi-tasking skills and ability to organize and prioritize work; strong attention to detail
• Strong graphic design skills, ability to work/think through projects with ease and efficiency
• Ability to be responsive and able to collaborate on client-related web development solutions
• Supports team-based and collaborative work environment
• Sets goals and makes continuous progress at personally growing and developing professional knowledge and skills
• Initiates action by responding quickly, taking independent action, and going "above and beyond."

To apply please email your resume and cover letter via the link below.

Highland Group is a creative studio delivering business results through brand strategy, marketing, graphic design and digital experiences. We work with action-oriented, entrepreneurial leaders -- local and global -- who are motivated to grow their organizations. Our work is smart, strategic and fun and we do it while exhibiting our core behaviors: be curious, be awesome, be essential. Since 2016, we've been a Certified B Corporation working for a more sustainably prosperous planet.

Many of the world’s most prestigious creative competitions have recognized our work:
Communication Arts, Print, How Magazine, Luerzers Archive, ADDYs, Telly Awards and Graphis. Our business has been selected by the State of Michigan as a “50 Companies to Watch Winner” and was awarded “101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For.”

Highland Group
645 Cherry Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503