Digital Graphic Designer (Remote)

Electrum is seeking a talented digital graphic designer to create engaging online demand generation content. You'll be responsible for producing content that matches our company's brand, aesthetic, and marketing strategy, including social media graphics, website banners, pitch decks, sales collateral, and promotional artwork. The ideal candidate should be able to efficiently combine creativity, functionality, and technology to produce eye-catching and informative content. The Digital Designer will lead and produce the design functions primarily for demand generation in collaboration with the Business Development and Sales departments. In this role, organizational and technical skills are key, and all candidates must possess in-depth knowledge of design software programs. Working within Electrum's Marketing department and reporting directly to the Director of Marketing, this position will serve as the only designer in the department. While some projects may require directing external resources, the role is 100% hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Produce the design and production for websites, product graphics, web logos, social media graphics and banners, static and rich banner ads, email campaigns, and email templates.
• Preparing briefs for each project and presenting design ideas to all the relevant stakeholders.
• Translate product positioning, existing research, and offline/online Marketing strategies into effective designs
• Work with the Technology team and internal developers to ensure aesthetics also are aligned with usability, accessibility, and web standards
• Work with developers to ensure proper implementation within a web environment and ensure consistency and integrity of the creative vision
• Work with the Director of Marketing to translate and create marketing requirements into compelling, appropriate campaigns and design
• Manage and produce digital design work, including banner sizing and versioning
• Translate wireframes into simple, easy-to-use User Interfaces
• Ensure consistency of brand and creative across digital customer touchpoints
• Provide design support to other business lines to create product graphics, logos, identity design, or other similar offline graphics.
• Support Business Development and Sales departments through the preparation of proposals and decks at times of high demand.
• Manage utilization and archive of all project collateral
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in digital design, graphic design, graphic communications, or related field.
• Minimum of three years of successful professional design experience, preferably in-house marketing and/or web team
• Strong portfolio of design work, showing solutions to business problems through effective design.
• Able to present concepts and lead internal teams to the correct solution.
• Experience in web marketing/web design with a strong knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, FTP, web design, and development principles
• Deep knowledge of Web design processes
• Experience designing e-commerce websites or advertising
• Familiarity with producing explainer videos and video editing is a huge plus
• Strong work ethic and personal accountability
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong time management
• Good interpersonal skills
• Highly proficient with Adobe Creative Suite products

WHAT YOU COULD BE A PART OF
Electrum is on a mission to empower communities through transparency and choice to enable a better quality of life for all people. 
Homeowners are often left in the dark when trying to decide how to go solar - that's where Electrum comes in. We've automated the process of going solar and driving down costs and increasing adoption rates. Our online solar and renewable energy marketplace provides homeowners with expert advice and custom bids from a national network of vetted installers. We have a bidding platform with innumerable Solar Companies competing for our client's business. This results in great deals for consumers, and even more, a great experience! Sustainable energy is more important than ever and we're the leading force in the revolution.  
Behind our marketplace is a team of incredible people.
People that are committed to building the future of clean energy solutions while maintaining our core values of trust, transparency, and choice. Those core values extend beyond how we treat our customers and vendors; it is how we treat each other. We follow through with our promises, are fair in our approach, and strive to live up to our reputation as an advocate in the solar industry. 
We believe that at the intersection of our team and our mission, we provide the best customer experience in the industry.
We’re the trusted marketplace for some of the largest and most progressive utility companies in the country, and for consumer brands like LG. Our footing in the industry is strong, and we’re looking for talented people to help facilitate the next phase of our growth.  Working in a fast-growing company does not come without its challenges, but if you enjoy solving problems, impacting positive change, and innovating in an emerging market, then Electrum will provide you with a platform to do all of those things. 
As a fully distributed company with employees all over the United States, we empower our team members to be self-starters, giving them stewardship over their work and their environment, while providing continuous support.
Our teams are built on respect, trust, integrity, and a culture of accountability.  We care about our team and every person joining us, and because of that we also recognize that not everyone works well in a remote environment. We take several things into consideration during our hiring process. Learn about those Pre-Employment Remote Employee Considerations here.
At Electrum, we believe that the diversity of thoughts and backgrounds will cover our blind spots, will make us more innovative, and consequently will give us an advantage.
There are no glass ceilings at our company. Facilitating the upward mobility of our staff is an important KPI that we track for our managers. The Electrum team comes from all walks of life and we hire people from a variety of backgrounds, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because we celebrate the distinct contributions that diversity cultivates. This is why Electrum is a proud equal opportunity employer (EOE) and is committed to building an inclusive culture that empowers every individual regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, creative self-expression, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or political views.
As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission of empowering communities and enabling a better quality of life by understanding that while we are smart alone, together we are genius. 
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