Freelance Interactive Graphic Designer

The Freelance Interactive Graphic Designer will work with the Audience Development team and the Analytics and Conversion team developing creative to tell our client’s story.  Creative projects will The Interactive Graphic Designer reports directly to the Vice President of Audience Development. We’re looking for highly driven, intelligent, scrappy, online-savvy people to join our team.

Responsibilities

Responsible for design and production in planning, creation and tracking the status of all multimedia design and production assignments.

  • Designs, develops interactive projects including websites, interactive materials, display ads and other creative
  • Collaborates with lead digital strategists, multimedia writers and conversion analysts on creative development of interactive assignments
  • Works to generate multimedia ideas for storytelling across all TSM client platforms; understands the functionality of technology and platforms in service of story
  • Uses data visualization, animation and gaming as experimental digital tools
  • Adheres and enforces interactive and website standards
  • Responsible for creative solutions to interactive issues
  • Has understanding of code and can troubleshoot when necessary
  • Develops strength in user interface design, usability principles and the user experience
  • Learns to turn around high-quality multimedia packages and elements quickly, efficiently and without error
  • Works to aid production of pages and sections for TSM client sites
  • Designs within the TSM and client brand guidelines
  • Has a broad understanding of platform creative needs in support of TSM strategies
  • Stays abreast of industry, technology, web and mobile design advances
  • Functions as a producer for TSM sites when necessary

Experience Required

  • Should have educational background in a related field, such as advertising, graphic design, publishing or equivalent work experience.
  • Must have in-depth experience with HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, JavaScript, Flash, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and other Adobe Creative Suite applications. HTML5 and CSS3 coding experience is a plus, as is experience editing in Final Cut Pro.
  • Must be creative, comfortable learning and using new technologies, able to work on multiple projects at one time, possess strong client interaction skills, and work well within a collaborative team environment.
  • Must have a strong willingness to assist colleagues in design, production, problem-solving and testing.
  • Must possess excellent customer service combining assertiveness with excellent people skills.
  • Conversant in social media and blogging a plus
  • Experience with online content management systems a plus

About Three Ships Media:

Three Ships Media is a performance marketing agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The mission of the company is to help clients rethink the way they sell. Three Ships Media invests more than 15% of annual revenue into kaizen, process improvement, and research and development – including its internal think tank, the Emerging Media Research Council. While Three Ships Media serves Fortune 500 clients and leading national associations, it focuses on partnering with mid-sized growth companies looking to significantly increase revenue from online channels. Internally, Three Ships Media has specialists in strategy and analytics, marketing mix modeling, conversion, marketing IT, custom content creation, graphic design, video, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, and media buying.

Three Ships Media Values:

Learning

- Curiosity and bold thinking unleash new possibilities for growth
- Ideas have more power than positions or titles

Entrepreneurship

- Success is often the product of testing and failure, which requires scrappiness and hustle
- Individual initiative, vision, and commitment are the spark that builds great things
- We turn imagination and creativity into action through disciplined execution

Integrity

- A win-win ethos of value creation requires candor, directness, and individual respect
- We believe in accountability for results and incentives that reward success

Play

- We celebrate success; we maintain perspective (and a sense of humor) through setbacks
- Our aim is to build something of lasting value and we should have some fun along the way

Interested in coming aboard? Apply Now!

Three Ships Media is an equal opportunity employer.