Digital Media Designer

Digital Media Designer501 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, USA Req #179

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Company Overview

At Savvas Learning Company, the work we do is not just our job. It is our mission — a deep commitment to making a difference in the lives of students and teachers everywhere. We do this by delivering award-winning, next-generation learning solutions that engage learners and empower educators.

Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today’s classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student.

Our comprehensive solutions for core curriculum and supplemental and intervention programs — supported by an array of professional development services — allow teachers to use data to inform classroom practices and tailor instructions to an individual’s abilities and learning styles.

Partnering with school districts and educators, we are committed to delivering the best possible learning experiences that improve every student’s chance of success.

Position Overview

The Designer, Digital Media will combine their creativity and technical skills to create and produce videos, motion graphics, and animations for a wide range of digital mediums, including corporate videos, coded responsive emails, websites, interactive digital display ads, social media videos, and more. The position is responsible for concepting, designing, storyboarding, and producing effective, on-brand, and on-strategy creative for use by corporate communications, product marketing, and web teams across the organization. The position will also require expertise with InDesign as many print collateral files are leveraged to create digital assets. The individual will work closely with Creative Managers, Marketing Managers, Digital Marketing, and corporate leadership to develop innovative, engaging, and industry-leading digital assets. The Designer, Digital Media will work with artists and illustrators in the conceptualization phase, produce mock-ups, improve the quality of existing graphics, and run user testing on websites and devices.

Primary Responsibilities

• Produce digital media assets for videos, websites, product graphics, web logos, social media videos and graphics, email campaigns, and email templates.
• Translate product positioning, existing research, and offline/online Marketing strategies into effective designs.
• Edit raw video footage and stock footage by adding effects/elements/voiceover to enhance motion graphics.
• Create storyboards (as needed) to bring brand content to life and adhering to documented brand standards.
• Work with Creative Services Directors, Creative Managers, Communications Director, and the Digital Marketing team to translate and create marketing requirements into compelling, appropriate campaigns and designs.
• Translate wireframes into simple, easy-to-use user interfaces.
• Ensure consistency of brand and creative across digital customer touch points.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting demands and timelines.
• Have a collaborative mindset and enjoy working with technical writers, subject matter experts, designers, developers, and alike to achieve the deliverable goals.

Scope and Impact

Supervisory responsibilities None

Other duties Support the Marketing, Communications & Research team with special projects as the need arises.

Requirements

• BS or MA degree in video production, motion graphics, animation, educational technology, instructional design, or similar required.
• 5–7 years of professional multimedia design experience: video editing, animation designer, motion graphics, and storyboarding, preferably at a digital agency or in-house Web team for a product-driven business.
• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite products (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Animate, Premiere Elements, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Visual design skills (Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Experience with 2D and 3D animation and working with voice-over talent to provide inflection points, with the ability to time recorded voice-overs to video and motion content.
• Strong portfolio of design work, showing solution to business problems through effective design.
• Experience in web marketing/web design with a strong knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, and Illustrator; knowledge of web content management system a plus.

Additional Information
Please include a link to your portfolio on your resume.
More about Savvas Learning Company

Savvas fuels the growing demand for effective education and high-quality information in the global knowledge economy, and shares a common goal: to help people get on in their lives through education.

Savvas Learning Company provides access to a benefits experience created to offer our employees choice, flexibility, and the opportunity to save money for the future. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, tax-advantaged accounts, pharmacy, life insurance, disability insurance, matching 401(k), and paid time off. Our benefits are part of a total package that is carefully designed to support the total well-being of our employees.

Savvas is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities, are encouraged to apply.

Please visit www.savvas.com for more information about us, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube.

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