Graphic Designer

Location: Denver or New York City - hybrid

Graphic Designer

Techstars seeks a creative and detail-oriented designer to create design solutions across a range of media that will strengthen our evolving brand system. The Graphic Designer’s responsibilities will include reviewing and prioritizing design requests, devising creative concepts and solutions against briefs, developing production-ready assets in both print and digital, ensuring content adheres to brand standards, update website content (graphics & pre-written copy), delivering high quality final assets in a fluid and demanding high-growth company.

In addition to maintaining and extending our existing brand system, the successful candidate will work with the Digital Marketing team to plan, design, and implement future campaigns and rollouts, including but not limited to display and out-of-home signage, digital campaigns, social media assets, partnered assets, facilities assets, and events/program systems.

Responsibilities

• Create designs for social media, website, email banners, video thumbnails and graphics, infographics, and more
• Work with internal/external stakeholders to prioritize asset needs
• Interpret design briefs to create a range of design solutions
• Pitch ideas, vision, and design plans with projected budgets
• Maintain and localize design templates for general company use
• Review graphics, layouts, and type before designs are delivered
• Suggest and make improvements to print/digital images
• Prepare Keynote/Google Slides presentations for executive leaders
• Create development schedules to ensure timely projects delivery
• Update the website (graphics and pre-written copy)
• Troubleshoot design issues with internal and external teams
• Archive produced images and graphics for future projects
• Maintain our digital asset management tool

Qualifications

• 3+ years work experience as production artist or visual designer
• BA or BFA in Graphic Design, Communications Design or similar discipline
• Experience producing creative assets for both digital (website, social, email) and print (events banners, brochures, booklets)
• Portfolio of completed graphics and designs within a brand system
• Expert command of Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.)
• Familiarity with developing template-based presentations using Keynote and Google Slides
• Ability to ensure final visual designs both embody brand goals and adhere to brand guidelines (“the spirit and the letter”)
• Proven ability to translate brand guidelines into templates and toolkits for others’ use in implementing our brand
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Nice to have: basic video editing skills, motion graphics, animation

Compensation: Denver: $70,000 - 80,000 + bonus, New York: $80,000 - 90,000 + bonus

About Techstars

Techstars is the most active pre-seed investor in the world having invested through its accelerators in more than 3,700 companies. Founded in 2006, Techstars believes that entrepreneurs create a better future for everyone and great ideas can come from anywhere. Now we are on a mission to invest in an unprecedented number of startups per year enabling more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. www.techstars.com

Techstars is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental handicaps or disabilities, marital status, Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity nor any other basis prohibited by law.

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