• Creates comprehensive design strategies and packages tailored to customer needs.

• Designs and produces websites, motion graphics, style guides, advertisements, promotional materials, print collateral, illustrations, logos, and photography for a wide variety of marketing materials and platforms.

• Assists with web and social media presence, development, appearance, and updates. 

• Monitors and coordinates all stages of production to complete projects.

• Advises and consults with vendors producing bid specifications, documentation, and contracts for vendors.

• Assists in the planning and development of digital advertising, promotional campaigns, and strategies.

• Acts as art director and liaison for individual projects and client programs.

• Assists with the development of long-range strategic marketing plans.

• Researches best practices, emerging technology, user behavior, interface content, and industry and cultural trends.

• Acts as a steward of the brand look and feel, and ensures that all creative broadcast across all channels lives up to the highest quality of the City’s visual standards.

• Collaborates with stakeholders to effectively drive communications and to ensure consistency of brand identity.

• Works within the content management system to implement and maintain a consistent and engaging visual web presence.

May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

• Knowledge of marketing practices and procedures, design principles, and media industries.

• Knowledge of content management systems, Drupal experience preferred.  

• Knowledge of current and emerging web publishing standards and best practices related to accessibility, usability and writing for the web.

• Knowledge of multimedia formats related to audio, video, and interactive technologies.

• Knowledge of user-centered design process, specifically related to accessibility and Web standards.

• Skill in design, illustrations, infographics and data visualizations.

• Skill in typography, color and layout composition.

• Skill in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and prototyping and wireframe creation tools.

• Skill in analytical and conceptual approaches to design.

• Skill in oral and written communication.

• Skill in project management to assist project managers in work estimates and planning.

• Ability to craft graphic elements, assets, and visual treatments that adapt and flow with responsive design systems.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and remain flexible through multiple revisions from concept to completion while keeping a keen attention to detail.

• Ability to manage time and schedules.

• Ability to work on projects of all scales and types, both collaboratively and independently.

• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with other City employees and the public as well as to work collaboratively with marketing, development, and project management specialists.

• Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.

• Ability to articulate design rationale, user-understanding and empathy and an understanding of brand.

• Ability to work with Adobe Creative Cloud.

• Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four (4) college or university with major coursework in related discipline or certificate in graphic design, plus a minimum of three (3) years of experience related to the job.

• Experience may substitut