Company Description:
Digital Designer/Art Director | Merkle, Promotions, Loyalty & Messaging
Merkle is a digital marketing solutions company working with the world’s leading brands. We build promotional campaigns to spark interest, gamification and loyalty programs to retain and reward, and messaging platform to continue the conversation. Our experience design and technology is behind global campaigns for clients such as Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and Starbucks.
We believe that a brand’s greatest asset is a loyal consumer and have aligned our work to deliver moments of value at every stage of the consumer journey, creating enriched experiences that attract audiences, create emotion, and establish meaningful relationships that evolve our clients’ brands.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Digital Designer/Art Director to join a team of digital design experts to develop consumer experiences that grow engagement and brand loyalty and bridge the Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 space for our Seattle based hot beverage client. You are passionate about building digital customer experiences for iconic brands. You will work with client and our teams to ensure expectations are understood and met from sale through development. You will also contribute to the strategic development of specified accounts and are responsible for the creative integrity of the work produced by Merkle. You will report to a Creative Director.
Essential Functions:
- Produce promotional and loyalty creative work for client brands rooted in emerging technology and gamification fundamentals.
- Develop powerful and valuable connections between client’s goals, strategy, and creative work to guide indicators, while being able to go beyond what clients and partners can imagine.
- Collaborate with internal strategy, research, and data, account management, creative, and production resources to ensure creative delivery excellence and effectiveness.
- Understanding of new digital media, social and technology platforms, with the ability to apply to promotional, loyalty, and engagement strategies and outcomes for our clients.
- Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and communication.
- Partner with Business leads to foster outstanding client relationships through creative and conceptual expertise.
- Work with team members to ensuring the creative product meets strategic goals and client expectations and is on budget.
- Hands-on design work and art direction on multiple projects with the ability to bring each new idea and design concept to life from conceptualization to completion.
- Advocate for and build new design styles
- Follow new technology trends and how tech can promote enhanced consumer/brand experiences
- Attend client meetings to lead the Creative team in presenting concepts and to support the sales and the project
- Offer original, untapped ideas to accomplish client goals
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s, Master’s Degree or relevant experience in in Graphic Design, Digital UI development, Marketing, related field
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Specific experience designing complex advertising/marketing campaigns
- Specific digital/mobile design experience; print and other design experience
- Excellent conceptual and design skills
- Expert in design programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator, Figma
- Illustration skills
Additional Information:
The anticipated salary range for this position is $80,000-$100,000. Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com
Additional Information
Dentsu (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact [email protected] if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying. #LI-RB1 #LI-Remote
About dentsu
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We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good-for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.
Dentsu (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.
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