The Jel Sert Marketing Team is looking for a creative, driven, and tech-savvy in-house Jr. Digital Content Designer to support our daily creative needs. In this role, you’ll be working closely with the marketing team to design visually stunning and branded graphics for our digital channels, events, and various content initiatives.

The ideal Jr. Digital Content Designer will be an active social media user with a deep understanding of the modern value of digital, who can bring creative digital-minded ideas and concepts to the team and clients. We are looking for a creative thinker and storyteller who can conceptualize and design new content for our brands to stand out.

Our existing brand guidelines, templates, and campaign examples will serve as the starting point for your designs - with the long-term goal being that you contribute to the creation of new styles and assets over time. In your interview, please be prepared with a portfolio showcasing your work and creative skills, as this will be a major factor in our decision-making process.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Creation of still and moving content – assist with production prep: location scouting, casting, prop styling, etc.
• Support design execution of all owned content projects around brand initiatives, product launches, and cultural conversations
• Work with Sr. Content Designer to design paid and organic content and conversation for social channels, PR needs, and local market amplification.
• Contribute ideas and processes to help raise the bar of content produced.
• Collaborate with internal and external creative teams (e.g., agencies, designers, producers, project managers) to see your vision come to life from concept to completion.
• Collaborate with creative teams both internally and externally to deliver content and creative on-time
• Create brand-centric impact content across various digital channels as well as internal/external meeting needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Associate's degree in graphic design or related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of graphic design experience required.
• Creation of digital assets a plus.
• 3 years B2C digital marketing experience strongly preferred.
• Concept-driven designer with strong working knowledge of social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.
• Must be Savvy in the landscape of digital. You are active on every platform and can clearly explain how they differ from each other.
• Proficient in Mac OS, Adobe CC Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro or Final Cut
• Photography skills strongly preferred.
• Video editing skills required.
• Proficient in HTML and WordPress
• Assist with various marketing tasks such as organizing printed collateral in the office and digital content online

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Candidates will be required to provide a link to an online portfolio, featuring work specific to social media and/or food & beverage industry.
• Excellent communication and administrative skills.
• Able to work on multiple projects at the same time, each with a different deadline.
• Willing to take initiative and to innovate.
• Strong creative, organizational, problem-solving and time-management skills.
• Team Player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate on projects with constructive feedback.
• Optimize and maintain website content with responsive or mobile-friendly images.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection.
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Office environment and travel up to 20%

FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES

Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.

Backup Sr. Content Designer & Digital Assets Specialists

IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS

This job is essential in strengthening our brands’ equities and supporting the future growth of our brands.