Multimedia Designer

Summary

smartdept. is searching for a Multimedia Designer for a financial services client located in Chicago, IL. This role involves supporting a large internal creative team by designing and producing digital assets across various channels, ensuring all work meets accessibility standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce digital assets across web, email, and social, including landing pages and website content
• Build and maintain reports, deck kits, slide templates, and Google Slides theme kits, including Google Theme Builder
• Create branded graphics, email headers, campaign templates, and branded marketing items
• Develop social and community investment assets
• Support large internal events including an annual Data Week conference, heavy on templates, branding, and marketing collateral
• Collaborate with creative and communications teams to deliver on-brand work across multiple channels
• Publish and format content with a strong understanding of different channel mechanics and file formats
• Ensure all work meets accessibility standards and document design best practices for both internal and external use

Skills

• 2+ years of multimedia, digital, or production design experience required
• Experience working across multiple digital formats and channels in a corporate, agency, or in-house creative environment required
• Portfolio required, should include slide and deck design, branded templates, social assets, data visualization, and document design
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) required
• Strong working knowledge of Google Workspace, especially Google Slides and Google Theme Builder required
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards and document design
• Solid understanding of multi-channel publishing and digital production workflows
• Ability to work within brand guidelines and execute consistently across deliverables and formats, built to spec and on brand
• Self-directed, comfortable executing independently on fast-turnaround ad hoc projects
• Experience in a Fortune 200 or large enterprise creative environment
• Motion design or video editing experience (After Effects, Premiere Pro)
• Familiarity with email production and multi-channel digital publishing workflows
• Photography or digital asset management experience
• Chicago area with hybrid availability a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of multimedia, digital, or production design experience required
• Experience working across multiple digital formats and channels in a corporate, agency, or in-house creative environment required
• Portfolio required, should include slide and deck design, branded templates, social assets, data visualization, and document design
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) required
• Strong working knowledge of Google Workspace, especially Google Slides and Google Theme Builder required
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards and document design
• Solid understanding of multi-channel publishing and digital production workflows
• Ability to work within brand guidelines and execute consistently across deliverables and formats, built to spec and on brand
• Self-directed, comfortable executing independently on fast-turnaround ad hoc projects

Nice to Haves

• Experience in a Fortune 200 or large enterprise creative environment
• Motion design or video editing experience (After Effects, Premiere Pro)
• Familiarity with email production and multi-channel digital publishing workflows
• Photography or digital asset management experience
• Chicago area with hybrid availability a plus