Graphic Designer

Dollar Loan Center

Position Summary: The Graphic Designer will bring an innovative, creative, and disciplined approach to designing consumer focused online, mobile, and email-based products

• Design onsite, email, and mobile elements based on product specifications and wireframes to achieve specified goals.
• Work with marketing team to conceptualize and develop innovative collateral.
• Create custom designs for social media campaigns and all marketing campaigns.
• Collaborate with marketing team to explore and develop new ideas.
• Ensure the design and posting of web-based marketing is compliant with ADA website standards.
• Assist design team in rolling out new brand identity into all internal materials as well as all external marketing materials.
• Create artwork, signage, and visual elements for events and store locations (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
• Create production-ready files and work with printers.
• Manage confidential information.
• The ability to meet attendance schedule with dependability and consistency.
• Other duties may be assigned at the discretion of Management that are related to the fundamental aspects of the position.

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or tech/trade school equivalent.
• 3 to 5 years' professional graphic design experience.

• Mastery of design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) is crucial.
• Knowledge of color theory, typography, layout, and visual hierarchy is essential.
• Skills in web design and user experience/user interface design are increasingly important.
• Excellent foundation of design fundamentals and typography.
• Experience designing consumer focused material.
• Experience with HTML and CSS a plus.
• Agency/corporate experience as a graphic designer. Brand advertising and digital experience are highly desirable.
• Any equivalent combination of education, experience, and training which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities will be considered.
• Must have portfolio of past/current projects and designs.
• Advanced Photoshop and Illustrator skills.

• The ability to think creatively and come up with unique design solutions.
• Effective communication with clients and team members.

• Precision and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to multitask projects.
• Desire to work in a fast paced, evolving, and deadline driven environment.
• Proactive, self‑starter, creative, resourceful, reliable, and detail oriented.
• Advanced in Mac OSX.
• Working knowledge with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Requires the ability to gather and analyze facts, to devise solutions to problems, to prepare clear and concise reports, follow instructions, attention to details and to perform with a high level of accuracy, completeness, and legal compliance. Ability to work in a team environment; work effectively with others, provide effective client service and public relations, display strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbally and in writing, organize, prioritize, research, and plan.

Ability to correctly interpret, explain and apply policies and procedures, understand, and follow oral and written instructions, ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work; ability to interact with a variety of individuals from socio‑economic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds in sensitive or difficult situations.

Requires repetitive movement, sitting, writing letters and memos, face‑to‑face discussions with individuals or teams, use of electronic mail, telephone conversations, contact with others (face‑to‑face, by telephone, or otherwise). Requires repeating the same physical activities or mental activities over and over; requires being exact or highly accurate, requires meeting strict deadlines. Requires work with external providers, customers or the public, work with others in a group or team, coordinating or leading others in accomplishing work activities.

May at times require travel to multiple sites and locations.

All offers of employment at DLC Empire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates and on all employees who are promoted, as deemed necessary.