Job Description

Description

Since 2007, RUN Studios has created world-class creative content for prominent and emerging brands, bringing together talented artists, savvy producers, authentic storytelling, and business intelligence to tell compelling brand stories that evoke inspiration and engagement. With deep roots in video production and motion design, RUN Studios creates media across all channels, and serves as a strategic resourcing partner to build robust, agile, and inspired creative teams.

RUN Studios and its client partner, a large online retailer headquartered in Seattle, are seeking talented Visual Designers to join for an approximate 5-month project on a full-time and part-time basis.

RUN is seeking talented, creative, experienced Visual Designers to help our client bring new offerings—products, services, brands, and categories. You have experience working in an iterative and collaborative process and professionally accept feedback and improve on it. In addition to strong design skills, you have strong organizational skills, web expertise, typographic skills, and acute attention to detail. 

You should be comfortable engaging entry-level through executive stakeholders and working with many different types of creative professionals and creative outputs. Because the work is so varied, fast-paced, and high pressure, the person in this role should possess excellent communication and collaboration skills. You will partner closely with a variety of peers and stakeholders such as customer research, brand strategy, content strategy, go-to-market, and site merchandising to achieve key strategic goals.
 

As a Visual Designer, You Will

• Create merchandising and marketing campaigns that elevate our client’s brand across multiple online and offline channels 
• Understand and respond to performance data (metric tests, usability studies), to steer the direction of your creative
• Understand user experience best practices for web and mobile interactions
• Use current and future marketing channels to inform and delight our customers
• Present and defend visual design solutions to leadership and business partners
• Collaborate with our client’s Design Community at large to ensure consistent brand use across multiple marketing channels
• Grow team knowledge of best design practices and trends in web and graphic design
• Work with various categories to refresh/improve our client’s product presence in their categories

As an Applicant, You Bring

• 4+ years of professional experience working as a designer in an advertising or creative agency
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating online marketing, retail merchandising, visual branding, and user-centered design solutions
• Experience managing multiple projects with varying deadlines
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch/Adobe XD, and other image-optimizing applications to create online user experiences
• Familiarity with content management systems
• Pixel-perfect attention to design detail
• Work in an iterative environment, across teams and synthesize feedback from multiple stakeholders
• Passion around creating innovative, elegant, customer-focused collaterals and how to implement them to create dynamic marketing solutions
• Ability to work within, and collaborate on, design systems
• Understanding of information architecture, usability, accessibility, UI and UX design
• Ability to work independently to troubleshoot technical and process-related issues
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to gracefully defend your design decisions to leadership

Additional Position Details

• Supervisory Responsibilities
  • None
• Physical Demands
  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Work Environment
  • Hybrid role, may require some time spent within Seattle office
• Travel
  • No travel anticipated

Interested? Show us your stuff! Please be sure to include a link to your online portfolio.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

At RUN Studios we recognize our ultimate success depends on our talented and dedicated workforce. We understand, value, and are grateful for the invaluable contributions made by each employee. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive program of evolving competitive benefits specifically designed to support the needs of our employees and their dependents.

Compensation

Pay Range: $60.00 – $90.00 (Hourly)

The successful candidate’s starting pay within this range will be based on various factors such as individual qualifications and work location.

Benefits:

Benefits and perks may vary depending on location and nature of the work, but eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, other telehealth and wellness benefits, a minimum of seven paid holidays per year, accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year, a 401k plan with company match, discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance, and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.

As an equal opportunity employer, RUN Studios is committed to pay equity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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