Graphic Designer | Vault Communications

Job Description

About the job : Graphic Designer

Vault Communications, the Philadelphia area’s #2 Top Workplace (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and three-time consecutive winner of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in 2022, 2023 and 2024, seeks a self-driven, entrepreneurial-minded and talented Graphic Designer to join our agency. .

The Graphic Designer will work closely with the Senior Vice President of Creative Strategy and our dynamic, talented creative team to maintain and grow Vault’s creative department as a center of excellence within the agency. The Graphic Designer is an important member of the agency design team, expected to evaluate creative briefs and communicate with the creative team to ensure full understanding of the expectations of the work. The Graphic Designer will have an autonomous environment, managing his/her own deadlines and budgets while keeping creative leadership informed of progress. He/she will seek and thoughtfully apply direction from account teams, fellow creative colleagues and the Vice President of Creative Strategy. The Graphic Designer should strive to be a source of knowledge on design trends and best practices, while collaborating with staff to develop and execute strategic solutions in design and visual communications.

Our ideal candidate has: Graphic Designer

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or acceptable related field
• 5+ years of experience in graphic design
• Excellent design skills, i.e. expertise in principles of design, typography, color theory, and production
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, particularly useful in explaining compositions, justifying design decisions and talking through client or internal feedback professionally and eloquently
• Above-average analytical, multi-tasking and organizational skills, including attention to detail in reading creative briefs and accurate application of provided copy into design drafts
• Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, etc.)
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment with competing deadlines
• Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills, and the ability to make strategic, sound recommendations to clients, peers and management
• Boundless creavitity
• Resourcefulness and chutzpah
• A desire to grow, learn, and eventually, lead
• Firm commitment to agency core values of Heart, Hunger, Curiosity and Excellence, demonstrated and adhered to in daily work

• After completing an orientation/onboarding period in our office, candidates may elect a fully remote schedule or a hybrid schedule at our headquarters in suburban Philadelphia. In addition, we offer a full suite of industry-leading benefits including: competitive compensation and profit sharing, flex scheduling, year-round “summer Fridays,” 100% paid medical/dental/vision benefits, generous PTO and paid holidays, cell phone stipend and exceptional employee programming/traditions. More benefits information can be found here: https://www.vaultcommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Vault_Benefits.pdf