Associate Design Director

September 7

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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Care. No Matter What.

reproductive health • health care provider • sex education • advocacy

501 - 1000

Description

• Support federation’s brand integrity, guidelines, and innovation through designed solutions and campaign work. • Establish visual direction from conception to execution across multiple channels. • Work closely with creative directors, designers, and additional members of the Brand Department to support ever-demanding initiatives. • Build, articulate, and implement design guidelines and visual standards for campaigns and initiatives. • Design on-brand materials across a range of digital and print mediums. • Provide clear design direction to in-house designers and external freelancers/agencies. • Review and provide objective, insightful, and solution-oriented feedback on creative deliverables. • Build and uphold creative and organizational processes in collaboration with the team. • Lead designers in ensuring on-time delivery of creative requests from internal teams. • Embrace a consensus-driven, solution-oriented style; collaborate amongst diverse communities. • Facilitate teaching of brand value to designers and non-designers. • Inspire top performance in others; navigate and lead during moments of ambiguity. • Operate in fast-paced environment; juggle large volume of work effectively.

Requirements

• BFA, MFA, or similar accreditation in Graphic Design and/or Visual Communications preferred. • Minimum of seven years of graphic design experience in-house or at a branding, design, advertising, or communications agency. • Two years of design direction experience preferred and/or experience mentoring designers. • Experience building brand guidelines within a larger brand system. • Extensive portfolio demonstrating design excellence and strong prowess in typography, composition, and color. • Ability to design for an expansive breadth of deliverables including social media, merchandise, experiential, web, presentations, print, brand assets (logo marks, icons, and graphic standards), video, and more. • Experience and passion in designing for and to accessibility standards. • High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Slack, and Google Products. • Illustration skills are a plus. • Proven track record of ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects in a highly matrixed environment. • Experience working effectively and efficiently with remote teams. • Extremely organized, process-oriented, and proactive; committed to asset organization and processes. • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and juggling multiple projects simultaneously. • Ability to proactively develop solutions to problems and challenges; know when to ask for help and support. • Strong oral and written communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong, effective partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders to work effectively across differences, soliciting feedback and input from significant stakeholder groups. • Flexibility and ability to adapt to quickly changing priorities and ambiguous situations. • Solid equity lens, including an understanding of how oppression impacts people’s ability to access their sexual and reproductive health and rights. • Commitment to PPFA’s mission and diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly surrounding race equity. • Commitment to Planned Parenthood’s mission of promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health.