Graphic Designer Application

About Narratent Digital Marketing

Welcome to Narratent, a digital marketing agency headquartered in Chicago. We’ve created digital assets for websites, social media, search engines, and email for dozens of clients. We are best known for our work with NBC Sports, Universal Music Group, Black Entertainment Television, Pronghorn, WayMaker, Ten To One Rum, Tequila With Friends, and RUSH.

Storytelling and content marketing is Narratent’s signature move. This camp is about telling stories that would otherwise go untold and unheard. We named our agency by combining the words “narrative” and “content” together.

Our vision is to be the culture’s biggest and most relatable marketing agency, educate everyday people about the internet, and build an empire of companies that adds equity to society.

Building websites for small businesses is where we started. Now we’re looking for a Graphic Designer to bring their talent, expertise, and secret sauce to the agency team.

The person hired for this role will initially work on a short-term project basis for 30 to 90 days. The successful candidate will then be converted to full-time based on performance, cultural fit, and need.

About The Role

Narratent is hiring a full-time Graphic Designer to support our Senior Graphic Designer with ideating and designing digital assets for social media, email marketing, and web. This role will initially work on a short-term project basis for 30 to 90 days. The successful candidate will then be converted to full-time based on performance, cultural fit, and need.

Characteristics

  • Ingenuity: You have a unique background and personality that will come out in your ideas and approach to the work.

  • Tenacity: You are prepared to eliminate the box, tell it like it is, add real value, and raise the bar week after week with natural assertiveness and proactiveness.

  • Vision: You understand that yesterday’s “wow” quickly becomes today’s ordinary.

  • Entrepreneurial: You demonstrate the instincts of a builder who is ready to win.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Senior Graphic Designer and Content Strategist to identify goals, understand customers or audiences, and apply creative design execution to create digital assets

  • Design and develop visual assets, from static to motion and interactive, for social media, web, email, and other digital properties

  • Curate and edit raw images with text, logo placement, shading, and touch ups

  • Proficient on a Mac platform in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Adobe suit software

  • Design no-code website templates with a focus on creative and user experience

  • Manage and edit design templates for repeat social media posts

  • Learn and understand audience behavior, especially Black and multicultural audiences

  • Attend weekly internal team meetings and external client meetings as needed

  • Support client campaigns and projects with vertical expertise in design and UX

  • Commit to setting timelines and achieving consistent milestones

  • Communicate wins, losses, progress, and challenges

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

- Proficiency consuming and creating social media content

- 2+ years of marketing or advertising agency experience

- Strong professional and organizational practices

How to Apply

Please email your resume and a link or attachment to a portfolio to support@narratent.com

To apply please send your resume and cover letter to narratent@gmail.com