Graphic Designer

Are you passionate about great design? Do you get excited thinking about fonts and cascading style sheets? Are you up for the challenge of translating a client’s needs into engaging marketing assets that motivate your audience? If so, we want to talk to you.

Perkins Coie is an AmLaw 50 law firm with 1,000 attorneys in 19 offices. Our clients range from entrepreneurial startups to FORTUNE 50 companies and include many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders.

As a member of the firm’s highly regarded design team, you will have the opportunity to create exciting marketing and communications materials to promote our corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property and other practices across a range of industries. You will support the firm’s business development efforts and develop the firm’s graphic brand and by designing, creating, and producing marketing collateral materials, digital media, advertising, presentations, and other visual components in a way that differentiates Perkins Coie from other law firms.

Primary job duties may include:

• Design innovative digital media graphics, including online advertisements, custom HTML emails and other related multimedia channels such as social media and graphic assets for videos.
• Create front-end design for mobile apps, client-facing applications and the firm’s websites and blogs.
• Develop and maintain a wide variety of traditional branded marketing collateral, including brochures, flyers, presentations, signage, advertising and more.
• Work with design team peers to brainstorm creative concepts for large-scale projects.
• Coordinate with outside print and ad vendors to ensure brand consistency and management of project deadlines.
• Work with internal/external production artists/graphic designers; coordinate project allocation and brand consistency.
• Stay abreast of ongoing changes and trends within the graphic, communication and multimedia world and collaborate with the broader design team to evaluate enhancements to the brand identity.

  Requires:
  

• A minimum of 5 years graphic design experience or equivalent.
• Experience designing and developing HTML email templates, working within proprietary CMS and developing for the web using HTML/CSS. Knowledge of WordPress. The candidate must also understand responsive design and modern UX/UI best practices.
• Full cycle design/production experience from the idea stage through delivery of product.
• Expert ability in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and PowerPoint.
• Ability to produce storyboards, wireframes and design layouts that follow the marketing team’s communication goals.
• Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite and Windows 7 programs.
• Professionalism, creativity and flexibility in dealing with multiple deadlines and rush requests on a daily basis. Attention to detail and high-level organizational skills. Willingness to participate in peer design reviews and be open to receiving constructive feedback. Forward thinking and an ability to communicate new ideas.

  Preferred:
  

• Corporate branding experience.
• Production artist and web design/usability experience.

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