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The Design Director is someone who is able to quickly interpret business needs and client briefs and turn them into compelling creative solutions. Often working under tight deadlines while overseeing multiple projects, the design director must be a skilled manager of creative teams. The Design Director must be an effective communicator, especially when it comes to relaying creative concepts to design teams and company stakeholders. This role requires but is not limited to: • Distill abstract business concepts and client needs into elegant creative solutions.• Take responsibility for the creative vision and the standard of output across team members who work under them.• Pitch ideas confidently and present the creative vision clearly to clients, as well as communicate in the same manner to members of the creative team.• Have strong people management and leadership skills in order to hire, develop, and inspire the creative team.• Ensure that all of the organization’s or client’s creative output/visuals are consistent with the overall brand.• Lead multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines.• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.• Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.• Clearly and effectively communicate the creative vision, concepts, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders, internal teams, and clients.• Work effectively in a team setting, including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.• Extensive supervisory experience (including leadership, team-building, and delegation) leading and managing a creative team.• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.

On July 28th, 2020, Partnerize officially announced the acquisition of Pepperjam, a leader in affiliate marketing technology and services. The unification of companies created the global leader in software and service for the partnership marketing category. For more information visit: https://partnerize.com/blog/partnerize-acquires-pepperjam/Partnerize is the only partnership management solution powering growth for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels through end-to-end technology & comprehensive service.

The Senior Creative Lead establishes the brand design vision and ensure that vision is brought to life through visual communication assets and experiences. This includes brand direction, style guide, creative development, execution, and effectiveness of all marketing materials, with particular attention to visual and graphic design (web, UI/UX, digital marketing included paid social, inbound marketing, print design, videos, photography and more). Responsibilities also include strategic development, brand stewardship, meeting with external vendors and internal clients, and overseeing the graphic needs of the organization. This role includes but is not limited to: • Establish creative direction, design strategies and showcase how design scales across multiple channels• Develop design specifications for organizational use, including but not limited to: graphics, typography, color, design systems and the application of design elements within campaigns, paid media, content and overall visual language• Leverage both quantitative and qualitative research to support design concepts and specifications• Deliver design artifacts that communicate creative concepts derived from both creative and marketing briefs• Collaborate with Marketing team members to ensure on-brand experience in all marketing collateral and assets, both digital and physical• Develop and maintain brand style guide and adherence• Ensure brand design and creative intersect with organizational objectives• Ownership of proper brand representation in organic social media, in part through the development of organic social strategy and plan and brand guidelines

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As a designer for Pepperjam, I get to design online banner advertisements for a wide selection of some of the world's top retail brands, including brands from Internet Retailer's top 500 list. Along with the banner advertisements, I create HTML newsletters for the ad campaigns as well. In addition to the daily banner and newsletter creation, I've worked on marketing projects for not only our division of Pepperjam, but also our former parent company eBay and the eBay Partner Network. Some of these projects include website design and development, brochures, postcards, invitations, signage, and itineraries for conferences.

While at Live Mercury, I created websites using standard HTML, CSS and PHP. I have also designed custom Wordpress templates and have customized pre-made templates/frameworks. I was involved in the website development and SEO techniques for each project. I also gained experience with hyper-local and social media marketing techniques. While there, I was also involved with designing logos, brochures, business cards and other branding/marketing materials.

I was hired as a production artist to design print ads for the publishing industry. While working there, I worked my way on to the web team with my diverse program and design knowledge. In August 2011, I was promoted to manage the Web Team. As the team manager, I was in charge of all web ads for our clients throughout the country. I handled all day to day communication with the clients regarding their ads and I had final approval of all ads going back to the clients. I was in charge of writing standard operating procedure manuals for employees/team candidate testing and similarly, I also tested the potential web team candidates from within and outside of the company. I would also build Flash ads when needed to expedite the turnaround time. In addition to being the Web Team Manager, I also managed the Imaging Team for a few months before my departure. I oversaw the toning process of ensuring the images that we were responsible for correcting were being sent back print-ready for the press.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Integrative Media

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