Graphic Designer

Do you enjoy working with a top-notch team and being part of a growing, passionate, and forward-thinking company? Our exceptionally high standards and whole-brain, full-spectrum approach have earned us an enviable reputation across multiple industries and fueled our impressive growth. Athena brings an artful mix of creativity and facts-based insight to make even complex matters engaging, memorable, and impactful.

Athena is looking for a Designer to join our Creative Agency. As a Designer, you are passionate about enhancing the visual image and design direction of our clients. You excel at conceptualizing and visualizing messages or ideas and illustrating them so others can easily interpret the desired results. You demonstrate a strong business acumen while collaborating with internal and external teams to plan, organize, execute and assess the effectiveness of projects. You focus on ensuring projects are completed on time through coordination of the design production schedule.

Requirements

Essential Functions

• Have expert-level proficiency with PowerPoint, the Adobe Creative Suite, namely InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects
• Design corporate presentations, templates, playbooks, social media assets, sub-brand logos, brochures, reports and other business assets for our clients
• Be able to use critical thinking in evaluating content and design flow to help inform the story our clients aim to tell
• Translate direction from written or verbal briefs, storyboards, and outlines, when available, or provide a thoughtful perspective when guidance is otherwise ambiguous
• Consider all client needs when preparing files for final delivery (e.g., technical requirements for presentation, step-by-step instructions for animations, packaged custom fonts, etc.)
• Deliver high-quality work on time and within deadlines while handling multiple projects
• Work with other graphic designer(s) to make sure company image is staying consistent and current
• Proven work experience with a portfolio of prior graphic design or presentation design work
• Strong corporate aesthetic skills with the ability to combine various colors, fonts and layouts
• Strong communicator with the ability to prioritize different simultaneous tasks
• Understanding of marketing, production, website design, corporate identity, product packaging, advertisements, and multimedia design

Non-Essential Functions

• Continues to deepen job-specific knowledge through ongoing research & relevant trainings, sharing learnings with the team about identified trends, products, and services.
• Adheres to all applicable confidentiality and data security guidelines and ensures the appropriate handling of sensitive information.
• Attends relevant staff meetings to promote communication and execution of goals.
• Other duties as assigned within the scope of position expectations Knowledge, Skills & Abilities.

In order to achieve Our Mission, Vision and Values, Athena Global Advisors identified a set of values that serve as our guiding light and that we continually aspire to attain. At Athena, it is expected that all employees will:

• Critical Thinking - using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
• Effective listening skills - giving full attention to what other people and clients are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Effective time management - managing one's own time and the time of others
• Demonstrates effective ability to make appropriate independent decisions and judgments and/or understand when to consult with other team members and management
• Ability to use basic computer applications (word, excel, power point, outlook, and client Management and billing systems)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to develop productive working relationships with both internal and external groups
• Strong data analysis skills: ability to design tracking/reporting systems
• Exceptional client service skills and a proven ability to work professionally and effectively in a high production, fast paced work environment
• Ability to be flexible with job duties and scope of work

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Visual Arts or related field
• At least three years of related experience required
• Experience with PowerPoint, the Adobe Creative Suite, namely InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects

Physical Demands/Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will frequently stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or equipment; reach with hands and arms; balance; talk or hear.
• The employee will occasionally climb stairs; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl; taste or smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Operate related office equipment and use necessary tools.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include frequent reading and close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• May require working non-traditional hours based on operational and/or customer service needs.
• Perform on-call responsibilities as necessary.

This job description does not necessarily list all the duties of the job. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This also does not represent all of the performance expectations and characteristics of individuals required to perform a job adequately. This job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the company may terminate your employment at any time, for any reason.