Editorial Content Designer

Editorial Content Designer

Remote w/in 100 miles of Culver City

Placement Type:

Temporary

Salary:

$62.61-69.57 Hourly

W2, weekly pay, benefits, 401k w/ match

The App Store is the world’s largest and most innovative software store. Designed to make discovering apps and games easier than ever, the App Store offers compelling stories, in-depth interviews, helpful tips and collections of must-have apps and games that showcase a unique perspective and help and inspire customers every day. The Product & Design team is looking for an Editorial Content Designer to help produce and manage key visuals for the App Store. This role is for a visual communicator and problem solver who wants to have their hands in several things at once; can deliver designs from concept to implementation.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A fountain of ideas and creative thinking who can react and implement quickly, laterally, independently or collaboratively.
• Exhibits extraordinary user experience and storytelling instincts, complemented by an insatiable curiosity to deliver nothing but the best for the user.
• Strategically-centered, wildly creative, with an acute attention to detail.
• Embraces collaboration with Creatives, Project Managers, Business Owners, and Stake Holders—valuing the virtue of simplifying complex problems through collective efforts.
• A team player ready to pick up any project, be it lengthy and complex or small and executional.

Responsibilities

• Conceptual thinking and creative oversight of original content.
• Art direction and development for design-based deliveries.
• Communicating technical specifications and functional requirements to third party partners.
• Creative partnership with copy editors.
• Design Keynote presentations/decks
• Support Marketing/PR requests for App Store related content.

Key Qualifications

• Experience creating engaging content design visuals (e.g., Digital Content, Web, Social, Journalism etc.).
• Passion and keen awareness of visual design trends associated with the Games/Apps/Entertainment industry.
• Prior experience designing with third-party IP or promotional content.
• Fluency across graphic design, typography, photography, and illustration.
• Experience managing external artists/vendors/agencies; including writing clear and concise creative briefs, visual communication with swipe and drafting storyboards.
• Deep knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Additional visual and motion design software proficiencies are a plus.
• Demonstrates command of visual and communication design principles.
• Comfort working in a fast paced production environment while collaborating with cross functional teams.
• Clear communication, excellent organization skills and strong attention to detail.

Additional Requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating perfection in delivering strategic design ideas across digital, social or static form factors.
• 4+ years relevant design or creative leadership experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Web, Graphic, Information, Communication design or equivalent.