[Hiring] Art Director - Cartographer @Amplify

Role Description

Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.

Art Directors at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom. As a member of Amplify’s design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify’s curriculum.

• This is a contract role.

Essential Responsibilities

• Design for teacher, student, and administrator experiences, curriculum content, and occasional marketing materials.
• Design both print and digital materials.
• Lead the concepting and design development of small and large-scale projects.
• Conceive, plan, and produce educational materials in a wide range of mediums.
• Collaborate closely with other members of the design, content, product, and operations teams.
• Effectively articulate concepts and creative solutions verbally and participate in design critiques by sharing and receiving constructive feedback.
• Work within and expand upon dynamic visual and brand systems.
• Direct a team of artists and production designers and manage reviews and feedback cycles with stakeholders.
• Efficiently manage at high volume from start to finish in a fast-paced environment.
• Roll up your sleeves and contribute as a designer when necessary.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in design, art direction, and production.
• 1-2 years’ experience managing others, formally or project-based.
• Bachelor’s degree in design or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in both print and digital design.
• Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and listening).
• Advanced layout, typography, iconography, color theory and composition skills.
• Comfortable with collaborative discussion, listening closely and providing honest, thoughtful feedback to colleagues.
• Expertise with Adobe CC, Sketch, InVision, and Zeplin.
• Comfortable with short development cycles and flexible with shifting priorities.
• Capable of working on simultaneous projects to meet tight deadlines.
• Comfortable working across different design mediums.
• Fluent in concept development starting with hand drawing of ideas.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with visual design in education technology or a related field.
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of literacy education.
• Experience in UX design.

Compensation

• The hourly rate for this role is $100.