Junior Creative Designer

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$78K/yr – $100K/yrIntern/New Grad1+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the day to day visual design process from concept to final output across print and digital assets, while keeping brand guidelines front and center.

  • Own design execution from mood boards through comps, revisions, and production ready assets.
  • Own asset prep and optimization for web, social, and interactive PDFs.
  • Own template creation, stock sourcing, photography, and storyboarding support to strengthen core messages.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with senior designers to conceptualize, design and produce print and digital designs that align with brand guidelines
  • Obtain approval of concept through mood boards and comps
  • Perform multiple design edits based on brand guidelines, art direction and client feedback
  • Create template-based materials
  • Source stock photography
  • Perform retouching, color correction, and collect for output
  • Create interactive PDF forms
  • Create storyboards for video and animation projects
  • Optimize image and video assets for digital and social platforms
  • Accurately apply design strategies to support and strengthen key messages

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in discipline-related field with 1–3 years of experience or demonstrated ability to meet the job requirements through a comparable number of years of applicable work experience
  • Strong design portfolio
  • Proven expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud - InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Acrobat. As well as creating assets in Microsoft Office – Outlook (OTF), PowerPoint etc.
  • Thorough knowledge of visual design principles, including graphic design, layout, typography, color and corporate identity
  • Experience in designing for advertising, collateral development, events, websites, presentations, recruiting, social media, templates, and environmental design
  • Experience in designing impactful creative for social media channels, primarily for X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram
  • High verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate and present creative ideas and concepts convincingly
  • Strong project management, organizational and time-management skills
  • Understanding of print and digital production and workflow
  • Self-starter with the ability to work independently, yet still take creative direction
  • Ability to thrive in high-paced, team-oriented work environment under tight deadlines

Preferred

  • Photography, Webflow, and Email Design experience a plus

Benefits

  • Mizuho offers a competitive total rewards package.
  • We are an EEO/AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran.
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Mizuho

This is not your typical financial institution. It’s our people who make us a cut above. Here, every person is respected because of their differences, not in spite of them. We pride ourselves on a culture of purpose, passion and compassion.At Mizuho, we provide the stability of an international industry leader with the career trajectory of a growing business. Our steady, strategic growth gives our people at all levels rewarding degrees of responsibility and a richer work experience than a boutique firm or an established giant could offer alone. Working for Mizuho opens doors not just to a rewarding career with excellent prospects, but to lasting friendships with colleagues from diverse cultures. It’s the local expertise of our employees that makes our global network so powerful. By collaborating with colleagues and clients who have your same ambition, you can amplify your sphere of influence and base of knowledge as part of one of the largest—and growing—banks in the world. We’re all global citizens, and that’s why our company feels compelled to make an impact through more than just drawing up deals. We prove that it’s possible to do well and do good. We do right by our clients, our community and each other.

Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN
15K employees