Graphic Designer

Department: Creative Services

Location: Portland, OR

Compensation: $53,000 - $71,000 / year

Description

Alta Planning + Design seeks a Graphic Designer I-II for our Portland office. This role is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta

Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 26 years with over 225 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

Day to Day

As a Graphic Designer, you will be a part of a marketing and creative services team collaborating with fellow talented graphic designers, web developers, marketing strategists, and a variety of project managers, producing materials for both print and digital applications.

The types of projects you may be involved in require a mix of both creative and technical skills, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team of marketers, planners, landscape architects, and engineers. You will also support a variety of internal and external clients in creating a large range of deliverables such as outreach campaign materials (digital and print), map design, motion graphics, UX/UI design, report layout, branding, logo development, and wayfinding signage.

Qualifications

Required Experience
There are 2 levels available for this role and the experience requirements are as follows:

• 2-5 years of experience for Graphic Designer I
• 3-6+ years of experience for Graphic Designer II, with preferred experience specific skillsets.
• Education: Experience in lieu of education.
  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree or associate's degree in graphic design or a related field of study

Creative Responsibilities
Required:

• Responsible for supporting project, proposal, and marketing efforts and activities by contributing to deliverables that have a high visual impact and are relevant to the target audience
• Design and layout of long documents such as reports and master plans using best practices in document setup, establishing styles, setting hierarchy, and linked assets
• Assist with design briefs by gathering information and data through research
• Optimize photography for print and web projects
• Manage and coordinate production of materials with outside vendors
• Ensure accuracy in all graphic-based documents including proofreading and adhering to accessibility standards.

Responsibilities based on preferred skillsets:

• Create visually compelling motion graphics and videos from concept through to execution
• Create wireframes, design mockups, and interactive prototypes for the web, and collaborate closely with our web development team during handoff.

Communication Skills

• Ability to collaborate with staff members across the company and manage internal team expectations.
• Present design concepts to stakeholders and incorporate feedback efficiently

Schedule and Workflow Management

• Use project management tools and team calendars to maintain project timelines and details.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and tasks on multiple simultaneous projects involving cross-functional project teams within budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Experience with project progress tools such as Wrike, Trello, Monday.com or Asana

Software Skills:

• Highly proficient in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products.

PreferredThere are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to:

• Proficient in Adobe Premiere and After Effects
• Experience with Figma
• Experience with SketchUp
• Experience with creating ADA accessible documents (Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word)
• Bonus: Member of professional practice organization (e.g. AIGA, SEGD, WTS)

Portfolio is required

What We Offer

Flexible Schedule
Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

Compensation
The pay range for this job in Portland is $53,000-$71,000 annually. Placement within the range and title (i.e. Graphic Designer I-II) is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Benefits
Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:

• Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans
• Dental/Vision: PPO
• Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation
• 401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3%
• PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start
• Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability
• Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities
  
  

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