Senior Digital Artist (Contract)

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Job Description Summary: 

Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.

Senior Digital Artists at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom. As a member of Amplify’s design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify’s Art Content. 

*This is a contract role.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Create age appropriate narrative and interactive art that brings curricula to life

• Collaborate closely with the art director or design lead to gather requirements for art specs and produce illustrations from sketch to final vector art

• Collaborate with interaction developers, user experience designers

• Follow established visual style guidelines, and be able to work across a variety of styles

• Articulate concepts and creative solutions visually and verbally

• Develop and refine deliverables by obtaining feedback from stakeholders and designers

• Contribute to at least 3 of the following workflows, based on qualifications: asset production in Figma/Adobe suite, animation in AfterEffects, print layout design in InDesign, graphic design in Figma/Illustrator, iconography, photo research, photo retouching in Photoshop. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in illustration and/or animation or a related art field 

• Ability to draw by hand

• Ability to follow style guides, and adapt to multiple illustration styles

• 5+ years of experience in digital vector art production developing art for the web, game, interactive experiences

• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, AfterEffects and InDesign

• Experience with creating rapid sketches and thumbnails for review and feedback

• Experience with creating rich, high-fidelity vector art illustrations

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Superb visual and conceptual skills to solve problems and create novel solutions

  • At least 3 areas of expertise in the following must apply:

  • Expertise with working in Figma 

  • Expertise with photo retouching and image creation in Photoshop

  • Expertise with animation or motion graphics in AfterEffects

  • Expertise with typography, graphic design, print layout design and print production in InDesign

  • Ability to design icons in Illustrator and/or Figma

  • Ability to do photo research

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with storyboarding or sequential storytelling

• Experience with visual design in education technology or a related field

• Experience with working with mobile game assets

• Experience with Design Systems

• Experience with A11Y in visual content 

• Experience with DEI in visual content 

• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of education