Job Description
Brand Designer | Remote
Department: Brand and Customer Experience
Location:Remote
Who We Are:
Cardinal Financial is a nationwide direct mortgage lender that focuses on creating solutions for our borrowers, partners, and employeesto provide the very best experience. We are genuine and hard-working individuals who are not scared to improve and intentionally push beyond what is considered good enough.
Looking to join a company that values its people, innovates and expands on its proprietary technology, and is growing at a ridiculous rate?! Apply below!
Who We Need:
This position will help support Cardinal Financial Company with various brand-level marketing needs through design to create visual materials that represent the company’s brand and style standards. You will be responsible for producing specific creative pieces from concept to execution for various creative needs specifically for the company’s internal marketing efforts. The bulk of this work will be long form brand content, brochures and guides, package and experience touchpoints, UX/UI creative support, landing page design and mentoring the creative services designer by partnering on projects to reach an end goal that satisfies the needs of the business.
What You Will Do:
- Takes final design direction from the Art Director, even if it varies from the feedback given by cross-functional teammates.
- Effectively and efficiently translates creative thinking into visuals and leads and develops the graphic design function within the creative team.
- Follows direction of the Art Director and works well with other designers and writers throughout the creative process.
- Performs creative asset research for marketing materials and clearly visualizes target audiences to meet brand and business goals.
- Creates and maintains image and icon libraries for both static and motion assets.
- Breaks down meeting notes into actionable design tasks where applicable and applies those takeaways to independently design assets for final review.
- Executes the direction of the Cardinal Financial Company brand identity to shape the look and feel of both digital and physical concepts.
- Has the ability to shift between differing brand identities depending on the project or material needed.
- Works comfortably both individually and with internal and external partners and teams.
- Communicates with cross-functional senior team members to receive feedback and task guidance as needed.
- Works with outside agencies, art services, printers, and similar vendors if/when applicable.
- Understands and solves for brand, marketing, and business-orientated problems with minimal to no need for supervision.
- Creates social media posts for varying brands and social networks on a tight timeline.
- Practices clean and organized file and asset management management skills in Google Drive as well as the ability to work within Asana, our project management tool. Training will be provided.
- Has the ability to move a project along by following the project management process and not rely on a project manager to do so for you.
- Seeks approval and feedback as necessary and saves all assets in specific folders for others to easily access and utilize.
- Has the ability to balance and deliver multiple projects with differing and aggressive timelines, deliverables, and expectations.
- Other projects as required, including but not limited to: longform guides and ebooks, motion assets such as GIFs, presentation design, and the creation of form fill documents.
What You Need:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in fine arts, graphic design, or marketing.
- Online design portfolio.
- 5+ years of experience in a graphic design role.
- Mortgage, financial services, or banking experience/knowledge is a plus.
- Video and motion graphic knowledge is a plus.
- Must be fluent in Google Apps (i.e., Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, etc.).
- Must be fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc.)
- Ability to work and communicate with the team in an online collaboration platform.
- Digital and physical brand-building experience is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills is a must.
What We Offer:
- Strength, Stability, and Vision
- Great compensation package
- Opportunity for career growth
- A commitment to be a relevant market leader – we are aiming for the top!
- Octane, our engineered proprietary technology that is transforming the mortgage industry
- An empowered culture where your ideas are important and your voice matters
- Full Benefits, beginning the first day of the month following your start date, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability Insurance, and much more
- Generous paid time off package that also includes all major holidays
- 401K w/ 50% match – Beginning the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment