Production Designer - Contractor

<strong>About Neo4j:</strong> <p>Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database &amp; Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.</p> <p>At Neo4j, we’re <a href="https://neo4j.com/awards/">proud</a> to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, <a href="https://neo4j.com/graphs4good/">helping them cure diseases</a>, <a href="https://neo4j.com/videos/predicting-fraud-5-minute-interview-with-marius-hartmann/">fight fraud</a>, <a href="https://covidgraph.org/">crush pandemics</a>, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s <a href="https://neo4j.com/users/nasa/">getting humans to Mars</a>. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.</p>   <strong>Our Vision: </strong> <p>At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.  </p> <p>As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.</p> <p><strong>About Neo4j Brand &amp; Creative Services (BCS)</strong></p> <p>Within Corporate Marketing, the Brand &amp; Creative Services team mission is to clearly and compellingly communicate the power of graph technology to the world. Our team (comprised of a brand director, 2 brand designers, 4 production designers, a presentation designer and a videographer) are committed to:</p> <ul> <li>Create a collaborative environment where tech, business and creative minds merge</li> <li>Uncover the why and optimize the how of every project to achieve customer-first creativity</li> <li>Strategic balancing of short-term needs with long-term brand building</li> <li>Deliver impact through <em>creative business solutions </em>every single day</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong> Roles &amp; Responsibilities </strong></p> <p>Brand &amp; Creative Services is seeking a self-driven production designer to join us as a full-time contractor on our team, ready to roll up their sleeves and help change the world by directly supporting the growth of our developer-first brand! We are looking for a highly organized, creative, and thoughtful team player, eager to drive business impact. A creative problem solver who is deadline-driven and solutions oriented, you will:  </p> <ul> <li>Support the design team in the execution of various creative requests from internal teams like Field Marketing, Product Marketing, People, Comms &amp; Developer Relations </li> <ul> <li>Creative requests include everything from 1- (primary focus) developing eye-catching event booth designs to 2- (secondary focus) custom swag, engaging social posts and lead nurture emails, solution sheet layouts &amp; beyond</li> </ul> <li>Provide a thoughtful point of view on why creative decisions were made, helping to support requester education through creative recommendations that are aligned to our brand guidelines, digital best practices and global accessibility principles </li> <li>Clear communication on design process, status of ongoing projects and able to articulate inspiration + feedback in an effective and inclusive way</li> <li>Communicate the status of projects with requesters from intake to delivery</li> <li>Adhere and maintain file organization using prescriptive taxonomy and regularly updated project archives for creative team and cross functional partners </li> <li>Be solutions oriented, identifying the opportunities and forging a path forward <em>with resolve</em></li> <li>Demonstrate cultural awareness and sensitivity for all markets and audiences served</li> <li>Maintain positive and professional relationships with designers across our global org, including designers on our Web/ UX, Product and PR/ Social Design Teams</li> <li>Participate in departmental and BCS team meetings and ongoing collaboration across virtual communication platforms </li> </ul> <p><strong>Skill Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s Degree or advanced degree in Graphic Design or other related areas from an Arts College, accredited University <strong>or commensurate work experience</strong></li> <li>Minimum 3 years of combined experience in B2B design services</li> <li>Experience in tech preferred</li> <li>Comfortable with production creative development processes, standards and specs </li> <li>Creative thinker with an ability to infuse business needs into design solutions</li> <li>NEED TO HAVE proficiency in Figma, Canva and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)</li> <li>NICE TO HAVE “bonus” capabiliti