Brand Design Fellow

The Brand Design Fellow will have the opportunity to work with the Brand Design team to create innovative well-designed brand and marketing materials in keeping with the Chronicle Books aesthetic. This role has a focus on digital and online materials but does include some print materials.

Chronicle Books is a highly collaborative team-oriented work environment that requires good interpersonal and communication skills as well as an ability to multitask and take initiative.

The position involves a wide range of responsibilities of which the primary duties are to support the in-house designers and manage multiple projects simultaneously developing creative appropriate design solutions for online promotions for our website and across all social media and trade channels. It requires close collaboration with Brand and Marketing staff to help the group achieve both creative and financial goals.

Responsibilities:

Develop concepts for design and produce the following:

Digital assets including: social media campaigns advertisements that may include animated gifs or other video output email blasts landing pages and a variety of other promotions

Print Assets including: sell sheets postcards childrens activity sheets and print ads

Trade show booth graphics/digital assets working in conjunction with Senior Designer.

Work with Brand Design group to collaborate on company identity and brand graphics as needed

Production & Administrative responsibilities include:

Process existing cover images book pages art author photos and other graphics for digital outreach sales presentations publicity requests and social media posts

Attend weekly Brand meetings and share information and expertise about design and branding trends.

Organize and archive files in a timely and orderly fashion.

Assist the brand photographer on photo shoots

Work collaboratively with other departments:

Work with Marketing Publicity Sales and other departments to design brand marketing materials to meet their goals in keeping with the brand aesthetic.

Qualifications:
All applicants for the Brand Design Fellowship must have a strong interest in branding marketing and book publishing.

Education:
In addition to college and art school graduates we encourage applicants relatively new to graphic design to apply for this opportunity as well. Applicants are not required to have had a formal education in the field but must possess proficient skills with Adobe InDesign Illustrator and Photoshop as well as an interest in marketing design.

Salary:

$21.64 hr

Strong working knowledge of Adobe InDesign Illustrator and Photoshop and Microsoft Word

Communication skills written and verbal in English

Prioritization multitasking and organization skills

Interpersonal collaborative skills

Understanding of typography

Ability to flow text in long form

Additional skills not required but a plus to have: illustration animation photography/videography packaging design knowledge of offset printing techniques