Company Name: 417 Magazine

Company Website: https://www.417mag.com/

Company Description: Since publishing its first magazine in 1998, 417 Magazine has been 417-land’s biggest cheerleader—telling its stories, celebrating its successes and highlighting all of the things that make southwest Missouri a great place to live, work and play. Our local love is strong, and we work hard to keep our more than 325,362 monthly audience members in-the-know with the latest info and relevant content backed by years of credibility.

Job Title and Description: Brand Designer. Are you a dynamic designer with a knack for marketing that thrives on building upon and enhancing a company’s brand? Be the design champion of our brand—it’s unlike any other in our community. Own the design aesthetic of the 417 Brand and all of its assets through dynamic design, high impact marketing efforts and videography.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design and/or marketing and communications
• 1–2 years work experience (impressive internship experience counts
• Excellent design skills, visual creativity, strong understanding of typography
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite design software
• Prior experience with HubSpot and/or any ESP is ideal
• Good judgement of design that would appeal to the 417 audience
• Proactive and not reactive. Must think proactively at all times about new branding and design concepts.
• Relationship driven with strong communication skills. Solid working relationship with (and the respect of) the sales, marketing, ad design and editorial teams, as well as clients.
• Creative thinking, ability to offer input in meetings and confidence to share ideas
• Unparalleled customer service
• Collaborative and organizational skills
• Confidence in written and verbal communication
• Intrinsically motivated to work independently yet still be a team player
• Comfortable with following direction and receiving feedback as required
• Manage a workload of multiple projects and competing deadlines
• Oh—and last but not least, have a passion for excellence

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create new branding and design concepts that fit the demographic and accurately and strongly represent the 417 brand.
• Design all collateral for 417 events, contests, promotions, sweepstakes and the 417 brand while maintaining brand quality and consistency.
• Visual storytelling through multimedia assets and videography for various projects including maximizing website content and events
• Copywriting for 417 campaigns including but not limited to advertisement copy including creative headlines and calls to action, social media content plans and website copy.
• Support development of social media strategies (paid and organic) across all projects and the 417 brand as a whole.
• Maximize the essence of live events through photography direction and video creation to create compelling recaps to tell the story of the event to sponsors, participants and event attendees.
• Create and coordinate fulfillment of collateral for direct mailings, social media, event invitations, postcards, envelopes, billboards, business cards, name tags and more.
• Support paid and non-paid circulation acquisition, retention, growth and re-engagement strategies for both the print and digital audiences.

Job Location: Springfield, MO

Hours: full time

Application Instructions: Apply at https://www.417mag.com/apply/marketing-and-design-coordinator/