Junior Graphic Designer

Who We Are

Yieldmo is an advertising technology company that operates a smart exchange that differentiates and enhances the value of ad inventory for buyers and sellers. As a leader in contextual analytics, real time technology, and digital formats, we create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance.  By understanding how each unique impression behaves and looking for patterns and performance in real time, we can drive real performance gains without relying on audience data.

What We Need

Yieldmo is looking for a Junior Graphic Designer  who is eager to join a fast-paced, quickly-growing ad tech company. You’ll be working with Yieldmo’s Marketing and Sales teams. Yieldmo works with agencies, brands, and publishers to make mobile marketing effective and desirable. Yieldmo relies on Graphic Design to express the value of our products to our partners in a way that makes our benefits clear. The Graphic Designer helps sales teams initiate conversations with prospective clients, win RFPs, get revenue-generating campaigns live, and continue to grow our roster of premium publishers. Your skills will also assist in creating Marketing materials, including but not limited to, social media assets, client presentations, event landing pages, infographic visualizations and product marketing PDFs.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the Yieldmo sales cycle and being able to offer guidance on what formats might be most effective for different digital campaign objectives
• Participating in sales conversations by joining pitches and calls occasionally to help communicate the value of Yieldmo's format design and help agency creative teams understand how to best leverage our ad formats
• Managing and limiting back-and-forth on creative iterations with clients
• Work with Yieldmo Sales to create example ads that will help win new clients
• Work with Yieldmo Sales to gather and edit static and video assets for use in mobile/desktop campaigns that will go live
• Work with Yieldmo Sales and Business Development to build communications collateral (presentations and other documents) to help win new business
• Learn about our new products and help build marketing collateral that will highlight our company and product benefits
• Work with the marketing team to support visual design for multiple types of collaterals (event pages, brandes swags, social media videos and posts, newsletters, deck slide design …) 
• Create documents that help people think about how to create great ad experiences using Yieldmo formats (e.g. a document to help agency and publisher creative teams get on board with Yieldmo formats: ideas, demos, templates, etc)
• Work with other Yieldmo designers on maintaining and growing the voice of Yieldmo by helping with internal graphic design needs

Requirements

• At least 2+ years experience in Agency, Marketing Consultancy, Design Studios
• BA/BS or equivalent combination of education and experience in Art/Graphic Design or related field 
• Online Portfolio showcasing your work and natural talent 
• Team-oriented, with the ability to build relationships and rapport within and across teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud:
  • Photoshop
  • After Effects
  • Illustrator
  • Premiere Pro
• A strong working knowledge of PowerPoint, Google Presentation and Keynote
• Working knowledge of the structure of websites and the ability to collect assets from source code
• Understanding typography, color, layout, grid systems, and other graphic design practices and principles
• An understanding of brand standards + guidelines and how to apply this to campaign creative
• Attention to detail and a thoughtful approach to file management and file packaging (packaged fonts and links)

Nice to Haves

• Ad tech experience 
•  considerate approach to designing for mobile (text is legible, images are visible, quality is accurate for retina and other displays, filesize is optimized for light payload and high quality)
• Being an evangelist for Design within the sales + marketing organization
• You’re ambitious and approach your work with a sense of curiosity. You’re anxious to learn new tools and methods that help improve your work and your workflow
• You’re rigorous and responsible. We often have tight deadlines to respond to big opportunities, so you’ll need to manage your time well and help set expectations on when you can deliver your work
• You’re organized and dependable. You’ve grouped and named your layers. Your file names make sense and have version control. Your projects are packaged, linked, and you’re rarely hunting for files or sources

Perks

• Optional 100% Fully Remote Workplace 
• Generous stipend and white glove service to help you upgrade your home office
• 1 Mental Escape (ME) day each month to fully unplug and recharge
• Work life balance, flexible PTO and competitive compensation packages
• A generous learning stipend and other opportunities for professional development
• Please note this role is not eligible for placement in Colorado