Senior Digital Artist (Contract)

About Amplify

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. We have become a leader in K–12 literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent high-quality instructional system. A pioneer in education since 2000, Amplify has developed deep relationships in states and districts by partnering with educators to drive implementation quality and improved outcomes. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents. 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. 

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

Additional Qualifications of the Digital Artist:

• 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 wi