Art Director, Clemson University Marketing and Communications

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Job Description:
OVERVIEW: Clemson University Marketing and Communications is seeking an innovative and motivated Art Director to join our Design Services team. In this role, you'll work closely with the Executive Creative Director and other staff designers to bring our brand story to life in Clemson World, the University’s flagship publication and other priority areas supporting the universities strategic goals.

ABOUT YOU: You're an imaginative problem solver with an eye for detail and a knack for thinking outside the box. You have a customer-centric mindset and an innate understanding of the creative process. You possess a keen eye for visual design, a strong foundation in typography, and a mastery of layout design techniques. You're comfortable working within established brand standards while also pushing the envelope with fearlessly creative design solutions.

This full-time position, averaging 37.5 hours/week. Compensation commensurate with education and experience. Includes comprehensive benefits. The Art Director will report to the Executive Creative Director.

Join Marketing and Communications and make a meaningful impact on the Clemson University brand.

Job Requirements:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Serves as lead designer for Clemson World for print, digital, social media, web and other media applications as needed.

  • Work collaboratively with the design, editorial, communications, video, web and photography teams to support the Clemson brand.

  • Develop compelling graphics and visual layouts for a range of projects, including print design, infographics, marketing collateral, direct mail, brand identity design, digital media, social media, and email marketing.

  • You’re able to operate as a visual storyteller and comfortable directing photography and video that aligns with your creative vision.

  • Understand and design for digital and social media platforms, considering their unique challenges and opportunities.

  • Develop compelling long-form layout designs for university student recruitment, implementing editorial layout best practices and techniques that help to meet strategic recruitment goals.

  • Ensure designs meet digital accessibility standards and comply with print production processes and specifications.

  • Utilize project management systems and tools to collaborate with teammates and to deliver projects on time and to specifications.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, Graphic Communications, or related major field of study.

  • At least 4 years of experience in a design, creative, or marketing role.

  • Expertise in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma.

  • Understanding of digital and print production processes, limitations, and specifications.

  • Familiarity with accessibility standards in the digital space.

  • Experience using project management systems and tools in a creative environment.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

  • Experience with animation and motion graphics, Procreate, illustration, email marketing, and 3D rendering is a plus.

Type of Job: Art Director

City: Clemson

State/Country: United States

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: Full Benefits

Company: Clemson University

About Our Company: https://www.clemson.edu

How to Apply: https://jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/EXT/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=108163&PostingSeq=1

Data Visualization Developer, McKinsey & Company

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Job Description:
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be based in our Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, New York, or Washington DC office and you will be part of our tight-knit data visualization team that includes editors, creatives and content-operations experts. You will work with our firm’s editorial team, design team and external agencies to create high-impact data visualizations and interactives across our digital communication channels.

You will report to McKinsey’s head of publishing design & visual storytelling with a close working relationship with McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) - a tight-knit global team, collaborating with researchers, editors, production, and communications leads. Together with the McKinsey global publishing team, we ensure that the visual content and user experiences published by McKinsey are best in class, delivering highest value content in the most engaging way as part of our cohesive brand experience.

MGI is the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Co. The Institute publishes a range of reports and articles. Its mission is to provide leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy decisions. Focus themes include productivity and growth, natural resources, human capital, globalization, and technologies and markets of the future.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
Working with the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), you will conceive, prototype and develop high-quality data visualization for data-rich research reports, articles and social media.

In this role, you will use your creativity and collaboration skills to partner with designers, editors and researchers around the world in developing content that will be published across multiple digital channels and experiences including web, social and animation/video. You will help create content for digital platforms including web (McKinsey.com), social media, and the McKinsey Insights app.

You will work closely with editors to create content that matters to our audience, then taking ownership of and wrangling it into clear, concise stories and visualizations. You are passionate about designing and creating engaging, informative and accurate code-based data visualizations for data-driven stories, while also identifying opportunities to elevate that content by recommending new data visualization methods, tools, and concepts. You have storytelling experience for editorial content — ideally having worked with leading publishers and/or news organizations — and can showcase a portfolio of data visualization experiences built with font-end frameworks such as React and D3. You will collaborate with UX/UI designers, product managers and producers to create interactive experiences that resonate with and engage our audience. You will advance our group's capability to deliver innovative solutions that are pragmatic, scalable, impactful and memorable. You will be responsible for upholding McKinsey's quality standards, ensuring UX and code are compliant with firm engineering guidelines and standards, and with our design system. Balancing multiple projects and ensuring that short- and long-term deadlines are met is our standard way of working.

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, visual design or equivalent; journalism background preferred

  • 5+ years of industry experience ideally having worked with leading digital content developers and/or publishers, including significant data visualization development work

  • Experience creating immersive data-driven stories that balance user needs, business objectives and technological constraints

  • Previous story-telling experience for editorial content

  • Expertise in cross-browser responsive development across all modern platforms (PC, Mac, iPhone, Android and tablets)

  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of a modern React stack (hooks, functional components), CSS (Flexbox, CSS Grid, Sass, CSS Modules), JavaScript (Functional Programming, ES6+) and HTML and jsx component hierarchy

  • Experience building data-driven interactives using D3 Understanding of interactive data visualization tools such as Flourish and Tableau

  • Understanding of data management software such as Python and Excel

  • Understanding of package manager like NPM/Yarn, module bundlers like Webpack

  • Understanding of Git and Github

  • Understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

  • Ability to quickly communicate via low-fidelity sketches and/or wireframes

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a distributed development team, as well as ability to effectively balance diplomacy with tenacity when working to gain alignment on goals

  • Ability to quickly grasp a complex brief and meet it with creative and on-brand ideas

  • Excellent problem solving and ability to implement sound judgment, knowing when to make independent decisions and when to collaborate

  • An entrepreneurial and collaborative attitude, with aptitude for working across tenures and role types and cultures; can successfully navigate and thrive in a complex organization

  • Outstanding drive and process management, with a hands-on, action-oriented style

  • Ability to work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities and managing time

Type of Job: Developer

City: Atlanta / Boston / Chicago / New York City / Washington DC

State/Country: United States

Duration: Full-Time

Benefits: Full Benefits

Company: McKinsey & Company

About Our Company: mckinsey.com

How to Apply: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/datavisualizationdeveloper-79173

Senior Data Visualization Editor, McKinsey & Company

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Job Description:
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be based in our Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, New York, or Washington DC office and you’ll be part of McKinsey Global Publishing — a team of editors, creatives, and content-operations experts — sitting on our data visualization team and reporting to McKinsey’s head of publishing design & visual storytelling. You will have a close working relationship to McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), a tight-knit global team, collaborating with researchers, editors, production, and communications leads. Together with the McKinsey global publishing team, you will ensure that the visual content and user experiences published by McKinsey are best in class, delivering highest value content in the most engaging way as part of our cohesive brand experience.

In your work with McKinsey Global Institute, you will collaborate with researchers, editors, production, and communications leads, as well as the wider MGI community to produce outstanding data visualizations and interactives. You will also work with our firm’s editorial team, design team and external agencies to create high-impact data visualizations across our digital communication channels.

MGI is the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Co. The Institute publishes a range of reports and articles. Its mission is to provide leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy decisions. Focus themes include productivity and growth, natural resources, human capital, globalization, and technologies and markets of the future.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
Working with the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), you will design and create engaging, informative, and accurate data visualizations for data-rich research reports, articles and social media that will be published across multiple platforms.

In this role, you’ll use your creativity and collaboration skills to partner with editors and researchers in developing content. You will leverage your eye for detail and visual storytelling skills to bring data to life and uphold McKinsey brand guidelines. You may also have opportunities to use illustration, animation, and coding skills.

Working closely with editors, you will take ownership and wrestle content into clear and concise data visualization exhibits. You will identify opportunities to elevate that content by recommending new data visualization methods, tools, and concepts.

You will balance multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring near-term and short-term deadlines are met. Lastly, you’ll develop optimized versions of exhibits for mobile and social assets.

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in visual design, communications, or equivalent

  • 5+ years of data visualization experience

  • Experience with digital and print publishing; journalism background preferred

  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills

  • Ability to quickly grasp a complex brief and meet it with creative and on-brand ideas

  • Ability to quickly communicate via sketches, annotated visuals, and low-fidelity designs

  • Solid illustration skills

  • Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite of products

  • Knowledge of state-of-the-art techniques in dataviz, especially as it relates to web/digital interactives

  • Knowledge of professional tools and software including (but not limited to) interactive data viz platforms such as Flourish and Tableau, data management software such as Excel, and multiplatform design software such as Illustrator, Figma, and Ceros

  • Comfort level with dataviz-adjacent code including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus

  • Understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

  • High comfort level working on data-rich business, finance, and economic topics

  • Can successfully navigate and thrive in a complex organization; ability to confidently and effectively engage with senior leaders and subject-matter experts; track record of achieving consensus and moving projects forward

  • Excellent problem solving and ability to implement sound judgment, knowing when to make independent decisions and when to collaborate; ability to assess situations, evaluate options, and make decisions

  • An entrepreneurial and collaborative attitude, with aptitude for working across tenures and role types and cultures; skilled at relationship building and influencing; able to effectively balance diplomacy with tenacity when working to gain alignment on goals

  • Exceptional organizational skills; ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, manage complex processes, and meet both short- and long-term deadlines

  • Outstanding drive and process management, with a hands-on, action-oriented style

Type of Job: Senior Editor, Data Visualization

City: New York; Chicago; Washington, DC; Boston; Atlanta

State/Country: United States

Duration: Full-Time

Benefits: Full Benefits

Company: McKinsey & Company

About Our Company: https://www.mckinsey.com/

How to Apply: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/seniordatavisualizationeditor-79174

Publication Designer, AAAS

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Job Description: Kerning, leading, drop caps, text rags, double-trucks, folios, gutters—if you dream about this stuff, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. The award-winning Science Visuals team is looking for a full-time Publication Designer. Reporting to the Design Managing Editor, this position will be part of the team responsible for every design decision in every pica of the pages of Science magazine. This position plays an integral role in communicating important scientific research and discoveries to readers all over the world. Working closely with editors, journalists, researchers, and colleagues on the Visuals team, the Designer creates engaging and informative ways to display and promote our content across all of our distribution channels. The ideal candidate thrives in a deadline-driven environment and truly enjoys balancing multiple projects at once.

Are you ready to be a Force for Science?

What You’ll Do

  • Design and project manage a variety of sections throughout Science magazine

  • Collaborate with other talented creators on the Visuals team—Photo, Graphics, Multimedia (Video and Podcast), and Web Content Strategy (web production and social media)

  • Design striking covers for our weekly and monthly online sister journals

  • Conceptualize illustrations by adapting stock images and art directing freelance and on-staff illustrators

  • Work within the K4 production system to track deadlines and keep the weekly magazine production on schedule

Job Requirements:
Minimum Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in graphic design

  • A solid grounding in basic science education, intellectual curiosity about science, and comfort with scientific ideas is essential

  • A love for (and experience with) print design. Magazine publishing experience, a plus

  • In-depth knowledge of Adobe CC (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop). K4/InCopy/InDesign workflow and Figma, a plus

  • Familiarity with stock agencies and obtaining permissions/licenses for visual assets

  • A high level of design sophistication with an eye for the detail that makes good design great

  • A keen eye for photography and illustration, and exceptional typography skills

  • Detail-oriented, organized, and a good communicator

  • Motivated to work on projects independently, but also enjoys collaborating with a fun, creative team

  • Deadline-driven

Type of Job: Design

City: Washington DC

State/Country: Washington DC

Duration: Full-time, remote

Company: AAAS

About Our Company: Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. Advancing Science, Serving Society.

How to Apply: Apply directly at https://bit.ly/PubDesigner

Submit a resume and cover letter outlining qualifications and interest in the position by May 25, 2023. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. A Recruiter will contact you with next steps if you are selected for an interview.

Location: DC Metro Area is preferred but open to remote workers in select states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where AAAS has a business presence, you may not be eligible for this position. Please contact our Talent Team at jobs@aaas.org with any questions regarding your eligibility.

The anticipated initial rate of compensation for this position is between $60,000 and $65,000 per year. AAAS currently provides the following benefits for this position: paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, paid holidays, health insurance, flexible spending account, dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, retirement benefits, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance, each subject to the terms of the applicable program. Additional benefits may apply.

Any actual offer of employment, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be made in the sole discretion of AAAS and will be based on a variety of factors, including years of experience, depth of experience, and other relevant factors. AAAS reserves the right to amend or modify its employment benefits and compensation structure at any time.

AAAS is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category. AAAS uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. No visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Freelance Book Designer, Reedsy

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Job Description: We are seeking talented book designers and illustrators to join our fast-growing community of top talent in publishing. Reedsy's vetted group of freelancers have worked on a range of widely acclaimed novels, such as The Hunger Games, Originals (Adam Grant), and His Dark Materials series (Phillip Pullman).

There are hundreds of authors currently looking for designers and illustrators on Reedsy. Reedsy allows you to pick which genres you'd like to work on so you only receive projects in your area of interest. You will work where and when you want, and set your own rates.

Job Requirements:
Our selection requirements are:

  • Full-time professional experience in design.

  • Minimum 3+ years of experience.

  • Demonstrated experience on at least 5 published and well-reviewed books (available on Amazon, Google Play or Apple Books).

A history of high-quality work with a bestselling author or on a bestselling book, or experience with a renowned publishing company will be positively valued.

Type of Job: Design, Illustration

City: Any

State/Country: United States

Duration: Freelance

Company: Reedsy

About Our Company: Reedsy is a community of over 1,000,000 authors and freelance publishing professionals, creating high-quality and beautiful books. We help authors to find and work with the top professionals in the industry: from editors to designers, marketers, and translators.

How to Apply: https://reedsy.com/spd/join-our-community

Assistant Art Director, Inc.

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Job Description:

ABOUT THE ROLE
This is an in-office full-time position for a candidate that is enthusiastic and passionate about design and ready to share that energy within a team. Under the supervision of the Creative Director and Art Director, the Assistant Art Director will assist the creative team in the design of print, digital and collateral layouts for our flagship content platforms, Inc.com and Inc. magazine, brand extensions, and other creative-driven tasks.

This position is represented by the Fast Company and Inc. union the Writers Guild of America-East.

Salary range: $60,000 - $84,000 + bonus eligible. Compensation may vary based on relevant experience, skills, industry, and education.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

  • Assist with design and production of layouts

  • Support creative team in developing assets, creating innovative layouts.

  • Commission original artwork (including illustrations, icons, and animations) within budgets

  • Work on templates and layouts

  • Help the team in the task to evolve a cohesive identity for the Inc. brand

  • Propose and iterate on design concepts for print and digital, as needed

  • Participate in idea-generating team sessions

Job Requirements:
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Excellent listening, communicating and organizational skills

  • At least two years of experience in creating layouts for design-centric, visual print and visual publications

  • Comfortable within the digital space

  • Understanding of complex type hierarchies and systems

  • Proficient on Adobe Photoshop, XD, InDesign. Some knowledge of After Effects or other editing software would be a plus

  • Strong attention to detail

  • Ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment

  • Ability to be flexible and to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

  • A highly creative, forward-thinking, innovative mindset

  • Positive, reliable, and motivated worth ethic

Type of Job: Design, Digital

City: New York

State/Country: New York

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: medical, vision. dental, commuter benefits, 401k, tuition assistance, paid paternity leave

Company: Mansueto Ventures

About Our Company:

ABOUT US
As the publisher of Inc. and Fast Company, Mansueto Ventures is home to two of the most iconic and vibrant brands in the world of business publications. Every day, the content, awards, and events we produce help entrepreneurs and innovators succeed. All provide useful insights, spark essential conversations and provide much needed inspiration.

Inc. is the voice of the American entrepreneur. We inspire, inform, honor and stand up for the most fascinating people in business: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters that represent the most dynamic force in the American economy.

Just as Inc. and Fast Company pride themselves on advocating progressive and innovative business practices, all of us at MV are determined to walk the talk. This starts with the people we hire, and ensuring that our processes give us the greatest opportunity to bring aboard individuals who reflect the breadth of backgrounds, experiences and ideas present in society broadly. We strive to be a transparent, dynamic, and responsible organization that gives all of its employees a meaningful role in helping to shape what we do and how we do it.

At MV, we prioritize diversity. We celebrate difference and try to embed it into every aspect of our workplace. MV is committed to providing equal opportunity employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

How to Apply: https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=100968&clientkey=391EBE62C932313F6770254E23DA9DF2