Senior Associate Designer

What You’ll Do:

The Trade Desk is looking for a Senior Associate Designer, Editorial to join our Global Creative Shop. The ideal candidate should have exceptional design skills — thinking critically and conceptually across a diverse range of digital media. In addition, having a knack for visual storytelling as well as an ability to turn around quality work on tight deadlines will be imperative to the role. This is a highly collaborative position calling for cross-functional interaction and alignment. 

• Be a ‘SME (subject matter expert)’ focused on the enhancement and aggregation of The Trade Desk’s and The Current’s digital footprint across web, email, digital advertising, and social media holistically from a creative/brand perspective.
• Work closely with our Creative, Editorial, and Digital Marketing teams to design and develop articles, landing pages, emails and all related graphic assets (Craft, Marketo, Knack, Infogram, Ceros, and Splash).
• Work closely with our Editorial, Social, and Employer Brand teams to design and develop article images, infographics, promotional assets, etc. our initiatives – all while diligently optimizing for current trends and best practices.
• Identify new and innovative creative ideas and technologies to tell dynamic and engaging stories that enhance the customer experience — like robust microsites, apps, interactive event booths, etc. — to help us achieve our goals and raise the bar across our digital verticals and campaigns.
• Present and justify your creative approach with team members and senior management.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize workflow, and meet time-sensitive deadlines.
• You will report to the head of Editorial Creative.

Who You Are:

• 2-3 years of experience as a digital designer at a media company, agency, or in-house creative team.
• Editorial expertise and judgement, with the ability to pair an article concept with a compelling visual execution.
• A knack for visual storytelling through editorial design, data visualization, and web page layouts.
• Strong foundation in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) and Figma.
• Ability to not only work within brand style guidelines, but also be able to expand and augment on those concepts through new ideas.
• Design aficionado with an impressive portfolio that showcases your technical strengths in digital.
• Creative thinker, continual learner, incredibly organized, and detail-oriented.
• Clear communicator with excellent collaboration skills.
• Experience or understanding of motion graphics animation via After Effects.
• Self-starter with a “let's roll up our sleeves and get it done” attitude.

Nice to Have:

• Social graphic experience in creating static or animated visual assets for existing campaigns.
• Web and email design/development experience (building landing pages and emails through a CMS; basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript a plus).
• Experience designing/developing rich media ads (HTML5, DOOH, video, audio).

Please provide a link to your portfolio in your application (will not be considered without a portfolio website).

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