Position at Ashoka
**Your primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
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- Partnering with creative team members to develop concepts while balancing strategic development with internal departments and worldwide offices
- Formulating innovative concepts that support Ashoka’s brand, marketing, product and web development, and social media goals
- Managing and designing projects from initial concept through completion
- Establishing directions and design solutions; ensuring implementation of directions from concept through production
- Collaborating with the creative director to develop creative concepts and layouts for print and digital assets while ensuring the work aligns with the overall creative direction
- Collaborating with the account manager to ensure all correspondence, materials, presentations, and proposals seen by prospective and existing clients are error-free and of the highest quality
- Building and maintain relationships with the account team, clients, partner agencies, photographers, production companies, and other vendors
- Adapting to changes in format, media, design, and advertising strategies as priorities shift
- Designing across a variety of project types, including digital/traditional/trans-media advertising and interactive design with an emphasis on branding and identity design
- Partnering effectively with all departments to ensure delivery of on-time, high-quality deliverables that address all relevant client and agency requirements
- Providing mentoring and guidance to junior & intermediate team members
**Experience, skills, and requirements:
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- 4-6 years of proven work experience as a Senior Designer, Graphic Designer, or similar role in an in-house or agency environment
- B.A. in a related field or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of the brand development process
- Proven ability to think conceptually and collaboratively
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build relationships with colleagues across time zones
- Experience using Adobe Suite and major UI & UX applications like Figma
- Understanding of UX/UI design
- Strong portfolio showcasing print, digital, and web pieces
- Keen time management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects with ease
- Proficiency in Canva
- Must have a thorough understanding of and be well-versed in technical and production skills, including Adobe Suite
- Understand and effectively communicate and implement creative concepts, the client’s creative and business philosophy, methodology, and capabilities
- Outstanding aesthetic sensibilities and a solid understanding of storytelling, layout, typography, and design principles
- Maintain and evolve our brand culture
- Has uncompromising attention-to-detail
- Must reside in Washington D.C.