Position Title: Graphic Designer II
Work Location: Mettawa, Illinois, USA 60045
Assignment Duration: 12 Month
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - Onsite on Tue, Wed, Thurs. Daily Work Schedule Expectations 9am - 5pm CST.
 
Position Summary:
As a Designer, you’ll join a culturally diverse group of 90+ strategic and creative explorers at an in-house advertising agency for a biopharmaceutical company with 29,000+ employees.
You’ll be part of a close-knit team—senior designers, web developers, motion artists, writers, editors, and account managers—that partner with cross-functional stakeholders to support 30+ leading brands. Together, you’ll develop multichannel materials for affiliates in 80+ countries.
 
Background & Context:
This is a brand new role created due to increased workload on the team. Role focuses on medical and educational content rather than purely commercial creative work.
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Design digital materials: websites, landing pages, infographics, banner ads, user interfaces, emails, interactive PDFs, and more
• Create and update content-heavy PowerPoint presentations on Mac
• Focus on user interface design for interactive modules presented on a tablet.
• Partner with content experts to interpret complex, scientific information and concepts and translate them into easy-to-understand graphs, charts, and infographics
• Familiarity with website design & UI/UX best practices
• Familiarity with Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator to edit, resize, and enhance images and artwork for use within PowerPoint.
• Use Acrobat to apply annotations from editors and clients
• Work side by side with creative managers, writers, video editors, and account managers to complete.
• Communicate with creative and project teams and drive projects to completion in a fast-paced environment
• Willing to take instruction and adapt to established formatting guidelines; ability to add creative value when needed
• Perform photo and vector searches on stock websites and internal databases
• Conceptualize and execute materials that meet brand standards
• Develop creative solutions within the confines of FDA regulations

 
Qualifications & Experience:

• Education + experience: Bachelor’s degree in design or related discipline; 2+ years of experience working in a creative agency environment
• Technical skills: Proficiency in PowerPoint and digital design applications such as of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Sketch, etc; fluency in Mac environment; maintain awareness of current design trends and new techniques and technology.
• Soft skills: High degree of organizational skill and initiative to drive projects to completion in a fast-paced environment; ability to absorb and respond to constructive feedback from clients and creative management; ability to turn projects around quickly as well as good problem-solving and presentation skills; knowledge of digital mediums and tailoring design toward proper UI/UX
• Portfolio: Portfolio must include a variety of dynamic PowerPoint presentations that showcase slide transitions, animated elements, video, data visualization, and good typography. Present other brand/design work for digital materials: infographics, banner ads, emails, and interactive PDFs
• Working files: Bring working PowerPoint files and other creative digital work to on-site interviews and be prepared to walk us through your creative thinking and problem-solving solutions.
• Proficient in design programs such as Figma/XD/Sketch/Adobe Creative Suite
• Proficient in website design, banner ad design, UI/UX best practices
• Ability to comfortably work with charts and interpret complex clinical data
• Proficient in PPT and designing large interactive presentations for iPad
• Ability to work efficiently on multiple projects each week.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 30.00/daily.