Jr. Digital Designer
TekWissen LLC
Mettawa, IL
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people's lives.
Position: Jr. Digital Designer
Location: Mettawa, IL, 60045
Duration: 12 months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
As a designer on a 1-year contract, you'll join a culturally diverse group of 90+ strategic and creative explorers at an in-house advertising agency for a biopharmaceutical company with 29,000+ employees.
You'll be part of a close-knit team-senior designers, web developers, motion artists, writers, editors, and account managers-that partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support 30+ leading brands. Together, you'll develop multichannel materials for affiliates in 80+ countries.
You'll love working in the modern, eco-friendly building with bright, open interior spaces. Time for a break? Grab a coffee or snack in the on-site Starbucks, enjoy a full meal in the cafeteria, work up a sweat in the spacious gym, or take a stroll along the nature path on campus.
And you'll find it all in Mettawa, with a free shuttle to and from Metra north train lines + convenient access to I94.
- Design digital materials: websites, landing pages, infographics, banner ads, user interfaces, emails, interactive PDFs, and more
- Create and update content-heavy PowerPoint presentations on Mac on Mac
- Focus on user interface design for interactive modules presented on a tablet.
- Partner with content experts to interpret complex, scientific information and concepts and translate them into easy-to-understand graphs, charts, and infographics
- Familiarity with website design & UI/UX best practices
- Familiarity with Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator to edit, resize, and enhance images and artwork for use within PowerPoint.
- Use Acrobat to apply annotations from editors and clients
- Work side by side with creative managers, writers, video editors, and account managers to complete.
- Communicate with creative and project teams and drive projects to completion in a fast-paced environment
- Willing to take instruction and adapt to established formatting guidelines; ability to add creative value when needed
- Perform photo and vector searches on stock websites and internal databases
- Conceptualize and execute materials that meet brand standards
- Develop creative solutions within the confines of FDA regulations
- Education + experience: Bachelor's degree in design or related discipline; 2+ years of experience working in a creative agency environment
- Technical skills: Proficiency in PowerPoint and digital design applications such as of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Sketch, etc; fluency in Mac environment; maintain awareness of current design trends and new techniques and technology.
- Soft skills: High degree of organizational skill and initiative to drive projects to completion in a fast-paced environment; ability to absorb and respond to constructive feedback from clients and creative management; ability to turn projects around quickly as well as good problem-solving and presentation skills; knowledge of digital mediums and tailoring design toward proper UI/UX
- Portfolio: Portfolio must include a variety of dynamic PowerPoint presentations that showcase slide transitions, animated elements, video, data visualization, and good typography. Present other brand/design work for digital materials: infographics, banner ads, emails, and interactive PDFs
- Working files: Bring working PowerPoint files and other creative digital work to on-site interviews and be prepared to walk us through your creative thinking and problem-solving solutions.
- Working knowledge of and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
- Proficient in design programs such as Figma/XD/Sketch/Adobe Creative Suite
- Proficient in website design, banner ad design, UI/UX best practices
- Ability to comfortably work with charts and interpret complex clinical data
- Proficient in PPT and designing large interactive presentations for iPad
- Ability to work efficiently on multiple projects each week.
About the Company
TekWissen LLC
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.