At Aureon, we allow organizations to focus on what they do best by equipping and supporting them with a full suite of business solutions, encompassing everything from technology to HR to contact center — all under one roof. As a trusted partner, we help organizations focus on your core business, while we take care of the rest.

Aureon has an opening for a Graphic Designer. Duties and responsibilities include:

• Assist with creative concept development
• Translate marketing strategy into compelling design by moving original designs from concept through completion
• Proactively communicate with internal customers and team, including the ability to elicit the necessary information to successfully complete projects that exceed customer expectations
• Understand brand essence and appropriately apply style guidelines across multiple elements
• Possess excellent typography, composition, and layout skills
• Exhibit broad experience in multiple design disciplines and mediums
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills, including the ability to juggle multiple projects with competing priorities
• Manage relationships and expectations across multiple customers
• Adhere to internal best practices, including graphic file organization

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Graphic designers who support the print production must additionally demonstrate the ability to:

• Create a variety of original printed materials, including sales collateral, product sheets, print advertisements, brochures, signage, trade show displays, presentations, and related client and publicly facing materials
• Correctly build art files correctly for reproduction, as well as the ability to proof files in a pre-production setting
• Manage print production processes, including collaboration with a variety of printers and production vendors

Graphic designers who support the digital marketing team must additionally demonstrate the ability to:

• Design for a variety of digital outputs, including HTML emails, campaign landing pages, and websites
• Create original graphics for use digital media, as well as competency in digital image manipulation and layout.
• Create and maintain website content, including wireframe development, layout changes, page design and content updates
• Execute designs that adhere to best practices in user experience
• Demonstrate strong collaboration skills with technical team members, including website developers, etc.

EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND EXPERIENCE:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree, and
• Three to five years of design experience, or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred

• Degree in Design, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Industrial Design, or related area preferred
• Significant experience with business to business marketing or advertising strongly preferred
• Interactive and video design experience preferred
• General knowledge of information technology, telecommunications, and/or human resources industries and terminology is helpful

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Excellent creativity with an understanding of design principles and an eye for modern design aesthetics
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work under general supervision and work independently on projects
• Utilize work experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective relationships with customers, employees, superiors and business contacts in a professional, timely and courteous manner
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, often changing assignments on short notice
• Ability to adhere to strict confidentiality standards
• Ability to present information to various groups in a variety of formats

TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND SOFTWARE:

Required

• Must proficiently operate Windows PC and exhibit a working knowledge of cross platform (PC vs. Mac) applications and compatibility
• Must demonstrate knowledge of personal computer applications within Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, including proficient use of Microsoft Outlook
• All graphic designers must proficiently operate the Adobe Creative Suite of software, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bridge, and Acrobat Pro
• Graphic designers who support the digital marketing team must also demonstrate proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite web-enabling tools, including Dreamweaver, After Effects, and Media Encoder; additionally, they must demonstrate competency with basic HTML/CSS

Preferred

• Experience with creative project management systems (i.e. traffic systems) helpful
• Experience with CMS systems strongly recommended