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Content Designer,
Amplify
Brooklyn, NY, United States
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Content Designer, MS ELA
Amplify builds innovative and compelling digital educational products that empower teachers and students across the country. We have a long history as the leading innovator in K-12 education - and have been described as the best tech company in education and the best education company in tech. While others try to shrink the learning experience into the technology, we use technology to expand what is possible in real classrooms with real students and teachers.
Amplify works with educators across the country - and about 2 million students. Although we’re a technology company, we don’t believe that our work is over the moment a teacher has a new software license. Instead, it’s just beginning - we work side-by-side with educators and school leaders, fitting our products into the lived reality of classrooms and schools.
Amplify builds innovative and compelling digital educational products that empower teachers and students across the country. We have a long history as the leading innovator in K-12 education - and have been described as the best tech company in education and the best education company in tech. While others try to shrink the learning experience into the technology, we use technology to expand what is possible in real classrooms with real students and teachers.
Amplify works with educators across the country - and about 2 million students. Although we're a technology company, we don't believe that our work is over the moment a teacher has a new software license. Instead, it's just beginning - we work side-by-side with educators and school leaders, fitting our products into the lived reality of classrooms and schools.
Amplify’s creative team:
Amplify’s creative team is a group of artists, storytellers, and designers. We sketch, we push pixels, we also love paper, we live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on assignments for digital, print, environmental, interactive and video projects. Our creative team has a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems. The creative team ensures ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.
The opportunity:
Amplify’s creative team is looking for a versatile Graphic Designer that exhibits superb problem solving, design, and production skills to tackle day-to-day assignments.
You will be responsible for the accuracy, quality, and development of final creative files for print and digital deliverables. You must be able to effectively manage multiple active projects to meet tight deadlines and be able to implement revisions quickly and accurately. You will be based in our Brooklyn office.
Responsibilities:
• Design for teacher, student, and administrator experiences, printed materials, curriculum content, and occasional marketing materials
• Efficiently execute a high volume of projects from start to finish in a fast-paced environment
• Be forward-thinking in your approach that raises concerns and proposes solutions when taking on assignments
• Work in line with brand and product style guides across different formats while preserving creative continuity
• Accurately make revisions from annotated PDFs and other software; raise concerns when needed
• Review own work for quality control against content team’s requests
• Receive and implement art direction through layout revisions
• Keep current with production and design trends
• Work within and expand upon a dynamic and defined visual/brand system
Qualifications:
• BFA/BS degree required, preferably an art/design degree with a focus in marketing, graphic design, visual, fine or commercial arts, or related field
• The ability to work efficiently and independently in a high volume, fast-paced environment; “do-it-all” attitude with ability to take on both large and small tasks
• An expert knowledge of print production and digital processes
• An expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Microsoft Office
• Focus on typography and creative problem-solving
• Experience in photographic selection, cropping and minor retouching is essential
• Maintain and follow consistent server organization and file naming conventions of existing structure and process
• A strong track record both as an individual contributor and as a key member of a team
• Excellent communication skills
• Manage your own project schedules and job ownership to meet deadlines
Preferred Qualifications:
• Solid experience in production and graphic design
• Knowledge of the products in the Education Technology industry
• Experience in Sketch, Zeplin, and InVision a plus
• Prior in-house creative services, studio, non-profit, museum, educational experience preferred
• Experience with UI component libraries/ style guides
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.