ASSOCIATE GRAPHIC DESIGNER SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS
Updated: Aug 4, 2024 - The Associate Graphic Designer brings expertise in post-production and motion design, complemented by profound proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects and Premiere. This role encompasses a solid foundation in film, photography, and editing, enhanced by a self-driven approach to project management. Demonstrating adaptability amidst evolving creative demands, the position requires a deep understanding of video codecs and compression, ensuring an organized, detail-oriented execution of design initiatives.
Summary of Associate Graphic Designer Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume
1. BA in Graphic Design with 3 years of Experience
- Maintains initiative, self-motivation and willingness to learn.
- Retains the concepts learned from training and coaching.
- Accepts responsibility and accounts for his/her actions.
- Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve problems.
- Consistently exhibits enthusiasm and provides positive responses to suggestions and guidance.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Perseverance and commitment to the business at hand and to the organizational goals.
- Effectiveness of both written and verbal skills.
- Communicates and/or understands instructions, sells ideas, obtains acceptance and action.
- Accurately informs supervisors and subordinates of important developments.
2. BA in Visual Communications with 2 years of Experience
- Ability to think in such a way as to produce a new concept or idea.
- Committed to consistently providing the highest level of service to all customers.
- Sets customer expectations properly and manages them closely.
- Processing of all project control documents relating to contract, change orders, etc.
- Provides clear explanation and sound conclusions.
- Uses care in providing completeness of project, maintains neatness and legibility.
- Builds strong relationships with external parties by obtaining confidence, respect and cooperation.
- Responds innovatively and constructively to the needs of external parties.
- Recognizes additional opportunities and relationships.
- Establishes due dates for projects and assignments.
3. BS in Digital Media with 4 years of Experience
- Advises others immediately whenever milestones or deadlines are in jeopardy and poses a solution.
- Level of trust, truthfulness, and sharing of information and demonstrates ethical behavior.
- Exhibits both practical and technical knowledge of the position and knowledge of applicable support tools and resources.
- Ability to formulate a sound decision using the available information.
- Enables success in both employees and peers, mentoring, coaching, clear and decisive administration.
- Communicates and interprets ideas/marketing tools with staff.
- Works in conjunction with staff to develop marketing campaigns to attain specific leasing goals.
- Treats everyone with respect for their originality, both personally and professionally.
- Respect for others unique qualities and expertise.
- Conduct and manner in which employee represents the organization in every internal and external business activity.
4. BS in Advertising Design with 2 years of Experience
- Undertakes planning and the integration of people and resources.
- Manages and measures multiple activities.
- Manages risks and plans for contingencies.
- Attention to detail, assurance of accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness.
- Checks information, picks up inconsistencies and mistakes.
- Collaboration and cooperation with other employees, supervisors, and outside contacts.
- Open and accessible to every other person involved in any business transaction.
- Effectively utilizes available time for the completion of necessary job tasks.
- Assists in the planning and execution of in store/online campaign tie-ins
- Participates in professional development opportunities.
5. BS in Marketing with 3 years of Experience
- Experience in post-production and/or motion design studio. Agency and/or gaming experience is welcome.
- Deep experience in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere
- Film, photography, and editing experience
- Ability to self-motivate and keep the project moving, especially when working solo
- Adapt as creative assignments change and evolve, while maintaining quality
- Understanding of codecs, raw video files, exporting, transcoding and compression
- Organized, dependable, knowledgeable and detail oriented
- Experience gaming products and overall marketing experience
- Holds self and others accountable for meeting targets.
- Confirms that agreed upon actions have been taken.
6. BS in Multimedia Arts with 5 years of Experience
- Experience in textile graphic design
- Proficient in MAC in Adobe Creative Suite, Particularly Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, some travel
- Knowledge of print types ( pigment, reactive, sublimation, etc) and correct application to textiles.
- Must understand and create pattern repeats and separations in both Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Artistic and creative, strong presentation, verbal, visual, and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
- Works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation.
- Displays excellent communication skills with coworkers
- Ability to communicate effectively and remain calm and courteous under pressure
7. BA in Fine Arts with 5 years of Experience
- Ability to develop original video/motion graphic content and strategies for digital platforms.
- Some experience creating motion graphic animations with Adobe After Effects.
- Understanding of how to work across Adobe Creative Suite software formats (mainly Illustrator and Photoshop) to create content that can brought into After Effects and enhanced.
- Be familiar with the usage and saving of video for different types of video formats. I.e. .MP4, .WMV, .MOV
- Displays ability to multitask and is comfortable working within shifting deadlines and projects.
- Displays great customer service skills and online consumer communication.
- Possess a combination of strategic Marketing and Design skills and assists both the Creative Brand Director and Design Team in a variety of digital and graphic design areas.
- Embraces challenges and new methods of thinking outside the box.
- Previous experience in Marketing, Photography and/or Video Editing
- Continually strives for accuracy and pays attention to details.