Are you an experienced graphic designer looking for a remote, freelance position? Do you believe collaborating not just with fellow creatives but with clients and their communities is critical to success? We want to hear from you! We are looking for a Freelance Graphic Designer to join our growing team. Graphic Designers at Bellweather work on all design tasks, from visual conceptualization to final delivery of production-ready files. This position is remote and must be able to accommodate East Coast hours. We offer pay based on experience: under 2 years junior; 2-5 years mid level; 5+ senior. This position is a 6-month contract (minimum 20 hours per week) with options to extend or full-time hire. About the role

Responsibilities

Visual conceptualization and design

• Have a strong eye for aesthetics and excellent design skills
• Collaborate with the Strategy and Creative teams to develop insights-driven design that resonates powerfully across all media channels
• Facilitate and encourage creative collaboration between team members, clients, contractors/freelancers, and external partners
• Ability to manage multiple design tasks/projects simultaneously

Collaboration and communication

• Collaborate with design team members to push visual concepts and complete design tasks

Work closely with project management team members to keep design tasks on schedule and flag any concerns

• Communicate with team members when tasks are ready for review or completed
• Understand client needs and communicate them to other team members who may not understand clients’ perceptions or goals
• Senior-level designers are expected to possess effective presentation skills and professionalism for client-facing meetings, manage tasks of junior designers, and provide leadership and learning opportunities

Proactive and detail-oriented

• Help identify copy mistakes, ensure required logo(s) or legal language is correct, collaborate with photo or video editors to ensure high quality image or video output in final delivery
• Responsible for ensuring production-ready files and providing design source files to production vendors or clients

About you The ideal candidate

• An excellent designer and collaborator
• Driven to create design that responds to research and audience insights
• Excited to share experiences and insights with a highly collaborative, fully-remote team
• An expert with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma (After Effects not required but appreciated)
• Comfortable creating templates for Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
• Organized: properly labels and manages files and folders for all creative assets on various cloud platforms

How to via email to [email protected] Include the following in your email:

• Your resume
• A link to your portfolio
• A brief cover letter (in the email body) that answers to the following questions:
• What has your experience been with remote work?
• How does it work well for you and not work as well?
• Share a bit of your story and what excites you about Bellweather.

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