The Program partners with the world’s most competitive and innovative brands to develop highly strategic, technical, and creative digital solutions. Our team is dedicated to creating meaningful connections between lifestyle brands and people, in a collaborative and communicative environment. We are fueled by the desire to grow and perfect our craft, and curating an environment where we can learn from each other is one of the key cornerstones of team member growth.

As an Associate Designer, your role will be to help conceptualize and create engaging consumer journeys, brand assets, toolkits, and decks across multi-tiered brand campaigns. You will be working with design leads, interactive designers, strategists, content creative, and producers, ensuring quality and consistency throughout the entire design process, while gaining a thorough knowledge of partner brand standards and visual centers. You must have a finger on the pulse of brand, technology and usability, style and aesthetic, culture and trends, and a whole host of other interests that inform your ideas and your designs as you become a key contributor to the team throughout the creative process.

Responsibilities

Maintaining clear lines of communication and keeping a positive attitude
Contribute to the creation of UX and consumer journeys; strategy thinking should impact your design
Design with the overall creative ecosystem in mind across digital brand assets, toolkits, and presentation decks for use across a variety of brand campaigns and pitches.
Remain current on design trends and usability best practices. Explore how motion design can bring creative to life with thoughtful executions.
Collaborate and communicate effectively as a member of our design team, partnering with creative, strategy, technology, and project management teams.
Approach work using best practices to deliver quality design.
Provide recommendations and insight, while remaining positive, open and flexible
Take accountability with tight deadlines and deliver quick turnarounds and revisions while maintaining high quality work with creative integrity.
Build, manage, and maintain digital design systems.
Research, validate, and share information to inform your design decisions.

Qualifications:

1.5+ year(s) of relevant design experience.
Strong digital design skills with a demonstrated proficiency across applications like Figma and the Adobe Suite.
Ability to ensure aesthetic quality and details are consistent across all creative. Strive to be pixel perfect, adhering to and working within brand guidelines and/or established design systems.
Strong and budding analytical and strategic thinking; you approach your work thoughtfully
Demonstrate teamwork, interpersonal skills, and a positive, can-do attitude.
Thrive in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment and seize the opportunity to make
Ability to give and receive constructive feedback throughout all design phases.

Details

Ideal candidates are located in Portland, Oregon and happy to join us in the studio a few days per week as needed via a hybrid office position.
The salary band for this role is $42,500-$52,500.
We provide a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays, vacation/personal time, 401k matching, 401k loans, health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, paid paternity and maternity leave, and more.
Relocation package available if applicable.

To Apply

Say hello to us at: careers@theprogram.co. Please send us some information about you, your work, and your thoughts on what you could bring to the team, along with the basics (LinkedIn, resume, work samples, social, etc.) that demonstrate some of your abilities.

*No recruiters, please.

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