Job Description
Graphic Designer
at Apartment Therapy Media
New York, NY, Remote
Apartment Therapy Media helps people live happily and healthily in their homes. Since Maxwell Ryan founded Apartment Therapy in 2004, it has become an award-winning authority of design inspiration and real-life home solutions while Kitchn has earned its place as the go-to resource for home cooks looking to plan and prep better meals for their families. Recently, we launched Cubby (CubbyAtHome.com) as the third property in our network, focusing on parenting and life with kids at home. Together, the three sites reach over 650 million people every month across all platforms and we have more than 140 people working from across the U.S. (and internationally!), in addition to our sunny NYC office & studio.
The Creative Studio, Apartment Therapy, the Kitchn, and Cubby’s award-winning branded content team, is looking for a highly skilled Graphic Designer. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has a passion for best-in-class campaigns that engage our audience and delight our clients.
In this position, the Graphic Designer will help drive the visual creativity of multi-platform custom content and native advertising campaigns. Your projects will span from designing simple banner ads to creating complex interactive landing pages. Reporting to the Senior Graphic Designer, you will work closely with our team of editors and producers to create on-brand visual stories that connect our readers with brands they love. The right candidate will have an impeccable eye for design, be able to work in different visual idioms and styles, and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design a variety of assets for advertising campaigns and other revenue-driven projects across Apartment Therapy, the Kitchn and Cubby, including interactive landing pages, lead art, visual identities, digital banner and rich media advertisements, social assets, and wireframes
- Ideate concepts for pre-sale and produce thoughtful mockups for sales pitches for a wide range of proposed campaigns
- Own projects from start to finish: work alongside project managers to fulfill design needs for each project and manage them from revision rounds to completion
- Strategize our creative capabilities: brainstorm and ideate competitive branded digital offerings to advance our content in the ever-evolving digital landscape
- Work collaboratively with copywriters and other members of the post-sale team to conceptualize overall visual direction of campaigns
- Produce lead art and create custom graphics for features and social posts, including illustrations and photo illustration
- Develop and maintain workflow processes of the team and keep file management system streamlined and organized
- Learn and adapt to a wide variety of tools and programs in order to execute interactive campaigns
- Produce unique and creative interactive landing pages in Ceros, our interactive platform
- Produce rich media banners in Celtra, our banner design platform
- Design presentations and collateral, including general presentations, pitch decks, and one-sheets
Experience/Skills:
- 3+ years as a graphic designer for a media company or agency
- Proficient in Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Google Docs, Asana, and Keynote
- Experience in Ceros and/or Celtra a plus
- Strong portfolio that demonstrates digital design skills, as well as an eye for composition, color and typography
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with quick deadlines and fast-turnarounds
- Must be extremely detail-oriented with the ability to integrate feedback quickly and seamlessly
- A highly motivated team player with excellent project management skills
- A passion for home design and/or cooking is a plus
Salary Range: $70,000 – 80,000 annually