Graphic Designer
Company Overview:
Levels Protein stands at the forefront of sports nutrition, committed to offering the market's premiere whey protein. Embracing the mantra, "Nothing Fake. Ever," we ensure our products are as straightforward and genuine as our approach. Unique in our field, we are the only brand that signals our commitment to purity and quality with the distinct emblem of a cow on our packaging. This symbolizes our dedication to providing the best, most natural ingredients, distinguishing us in a crowded market. Our culture of innovation, sustainability, and creativity is the bedrock upon which our success is built, inviting like-minded professionals to join us in making a significant impact.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a talented Graphic Designer who is excited to bring this vision to life with us and build a brand that is both fresh and substantive. This role will be a central member of our creative team, working across a variety of visual assets and content ranging from paid, digital, email, sms, and social posts, to brand presentations, digital experiences, and physical products.
Responsibilities:
- Working within the Creative Team, and partnering cross-functionally, on projects big and small — establishing trust along the way
- Immersing yourself in the existing brand style guide and creating expanded medium specific creative guidelines and a broader visual toolkit, ensuring consistent application of the brand internally and externally
- Creating visual concepts and creative solutions for a variety of brand marketing scenarios in collaboration with PR, Social Media, Brand, and Retail teams
- Understanding and implementing a cohesive look and feel across all channels
- Brand storytelling and social media content
- Performance marketing: DR ads (interactive/static/animated), emails, etc.
- Motion assets including light video editing, gifs, and animations
- Website landing pages, content, and assets
- Print collateral such as product packaging and labels
- Presentations and assets to support the business needs
- Design for offline/experiential brand activations
- Leading design projects from end-to-end — from early-stage brainstorming and concept development through to go-live execution
- Translating key consumer insights into compelling visuals for paid and owned channels in an iterative but thoughtful manner
- Driving the planning, execution, and post-production of in-house photoshoots
- Briefing and collaborating with internal and external creative agencies/partners to develop campaigns, video assets, packaging, etc.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of Graphic Design experience, preferably in DTC, eCommerce, consumer packaged goods (CPG), supplements, food/beverage, beauty, or OTC pharmaceutical industry
- A current portfolio of self-created work showcasing strong technical design skills with an emphasis on strong layout design and typographic skills for creative marketing campaigns and assets
- Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator); After Effects for light motion graphics, strongly preferred
- Some illustration and/or animation skills
- Some experience with Art Direction for photography/video (Lightroom, Premiere Pro)
- Understanding of image manipulation and photo editing
- Packaging design skills strongly preferred