Lead Brand Designer
Ketone-IQ
Brand Designer, Marketing & Communications
School of Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $55,000 - $58,500 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
CloudJavaScriptSpark
About the role
- Elevate the University of Cincinnati’s reputation, recruitment, and reach through bold brand activation and compelling digital storytelling
- Create scroll-stopping creative and action-driving content that amplifies UC’s brand across digital platforms
- Craft compelling assets for campaigns, motion graphics, dynamic assets, social media, web, email, environmental branding, and presentations
- Design branded visual systems, templates, and toolkits to bring cohesion and clarity across platforms and teams
- Design and maintain UC's visual identity standards and branded assets (logos, lockups, co-branded graphics, templates, toolkits)
- Design infographics, social graphics, and data-driven visuals that simplify complexity and capture audience attention
- Act as a design consultant and creative advisor, offering recommendations on formats, platforms, and executions
- Manage file organization, archiving, production processes, and prep final art for deployment across digital, print, and environmental platforms
- Support quality control by reviewing, refining, and proofing creative for accuracy, accessibility, and brand alignment
- Stay current with design trends, tools, and digital engagement strategies and bring new ideas to the team
- Liaison or manage selected vendors, contractors, and suppliers for assigned projects and write specifications for needs and bids
- Perform related duties based on departmental need
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Three (3) years of relevant work experience
- Proven proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects
- Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, design systems, brand storytelling, layout, color, and typography
- Experience working with brand guidelines and contributing to their evolution
- Experience developing infographics, social media graphics, and presentation decks
- Familiarity with digital accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG)
- Familiarity and examples of AI prompting for design and concepts
- Familiarity with digital asset management (DAM) and utilizing metadata
- Desirable: UX/UI principles, motion design, basic web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), data-driven design, visual storytelling
- Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, strong attention to detail, organization, and file management best practices
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- If hired, must provide satisfactory proof of employment eligibility via Federal I-9 employment verification
