Call for Freelance Designers
Provoc a strategic marketing and communications firm specializing in outcomedriven design is building our bench of freelance designers for a range of communication projects with nonprofits foundations and other clients working for equity and social justice.
This is not a full time job posting or immediate opportunity designers would be engaged on a byproject contract basis as future opportunities arise.
To submit:
Designers with experience in any of the core services and/or specializations below are encouraged to share your portfolio and/or resume rates specific areas of experience/expertise and questions via this form.
We are looking to build a team full of people with different perspectives experiences and backgrounds and strongly encourage submissions from people of color 2SLGBTQIA people women nonbinary people people with disabilities and/or people from any other systemically underrepresented group. Provoc is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit.
Learn more about Provoc and see case studies of our work.
Our core services
Branding and visual identity including:
- Logo design
- Color typography iconography graphic/image styles and other brand elements
- Brand style guides
- Print and digital collateral and templates (letterhead reports presentations emails etc.
- We are especially interested in designers with logo experience.
Websites and user interface design including:
- Design reskins and full redesigns for websites ranging from microsite to enterprise level
- Interaction and interactive design (UX and UI design with confident knowledge of accessibility standards especially WCAG 2.2
- Wireframing prototype testing and usability testing
- Flexible approach to website or product design especially Agile design methodology
- Experimental web technologies (such as WebGL and other javascript rich media)
- We are especially interested in designers with some web development and coding skills as well such as prototyping and tools like Webflow or Framer and demonstrated experience implementing high accessibility standards.
Campaign identity and collateral including:
- Campaign identity/treatment development
- Social media graphics and templates (static and dynamic)
- Digital advertisements
- Video treatments (intros outros lower third basic animation)
- Emails
- Landing webpages
- Print collateral (pamphlets postcards event signage etc.
- We are especially interested in designers with experience in campaign or social strategy at large.
Reports and toolkits including:
- Print and digital publications (from lean Google Docs to fully original customdesigned documents to interactive online reports)
- Infographics and data visualization
- We are especially interested in designers with experience conceptualizing and designing custom graphics and illustrations.
Additional skills were seeking
Specializations
- Creative direction
- Animation
- Illustration
- Motion graphics and video
- 3D graphic implementation
Primary design tools used
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- Canva
- Google documents (Docs Sheets Slides)
How we collaborate
At Provoc we partner strategically with our clients and colleagues to produce accessible strategic modern design work. A fully remote company our team works through Slack Basecamp and Zoom to collaborate live and asynchronously with each other and clients. Most of the company is U.S.based with our primary designers based in Europe (generally working until 12:30 p.m. ET). Depending on the scope of the project contract designers may be either clientfacing or internalfacing only.
Ideal Provoc design collaborators:
- Understand and consider equity in the design process such as accessible and inclusive design standards cultural competency and humility in reaching different audiences addressing bias and stereotypes in image selection and more.
- Bridge design and strategy including translating strategy or messages developed by others into a design language or product articulating the strategic choices behind design recommendations with a client engaging clients through a design direction and process and consulting throughout multiple phases of a project on design considerations or implications.
- Bridge vocabulary gaps with colleagues and clients with patience and a goal of reaching shared understanding.
- Are comfortable producing many ideas quickly while remaining objective and open to new ideas.
- Are able to workshop ideas and design updates live with clients.
- Selfstart take initiative and are accountable to timelines and commitments.
- Stay on top of current design trends and developments.
- Accurately estimate the hours required to complete specific tasks or deliverables.
- Have availability that primarily falls between 8am8 pm ET Monday to Thursday to collaborate with U.S.based clients and colleagues.
Required Experience:
Manager