Digital Artist job at Amplify Education in US National

Digital Artist (Contract)

locations

Remote - United States

time type

Full time

job requisition id

Req_12660

Job Description Summary:

Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.

Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers who bring ideas to life across digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We value both big ideas and thoughtful execution, with a hands-on, highly collaborative approach to product development and design systems.

Digital Artists at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom. As a member of Amplify’s design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify’s art content.
• This is a contract role.

Essential Responsibilities:

Create age-appropriate narrative art that brings the literacy curriculum to life through illustrated characters and storytelling

Collaborate closely with the art director or design lead to gather requirements for art specs, and produce illustrations from sketch to final vector art

Collaborate with interaction developers and UX designers

Follow established visual style guidelines, and be able to work across a variety of styles

Articulate concepts and creative solutions visually and verbally

Iterate on deliverables based on stakeholder and team feedback

Contribute to at least 3 of the following workflows, based on qualifications: asset production in Figma/Adobe suite, animation in AfterEffects, print layout design in InDesign, graphic design in Figma/Illustrator, iconography, photo research, photo retouching in Photoshop

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in graphic arts, design, illustration, communications, or related field

3+ years of experience in illustration

Ability to draw by hand

Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, AfterEffects and InDesign

Experience with creating rapid sketches and thumbnails for review and feedback

Experience with creating rich, high-fidelity vector art illustrations

Ability to follow style guides, and adapt to multiple illustration styles

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Superb visual and conceptual skills to solve problems and create novel solutions

Demonstrated expertise in at least three of the following areas:

Figma

Photo retouching and image creation in Photoshop

Animation or motion graphics in AfterEffects

Typography, graphic design, and print production in InDesign

Icon design in Illustrator and/or Figma

Photo research

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with storyboarding or sequential storytelling

Experience with animation or motion graphics

Experience with visual design in education technology or a related field

Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of education

Experience with working with mobile game assets

Experience with Design Systems

Experience with A11Y in visual content

Compensation:

The hourly rate range for this role is $55 - $57.