Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe a run can change a day, a life, the world. Everyone who works here is a key part of our obsession to make the best running gear on the planet. We want our business — which also happens to be our passion — to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable being themselves. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together, and drives our success. We live this culture daily through our brand values: Runner First, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There is no “I” in Run, and Keep Moving. This means we always solve for the runner, do what we say we will, give it our all, are generous with our humanity, and find a way to keep moving every day, because joy is kinetic.
Are you ready to help create something extraordinary?
Your Job:
The Brooks Global Creative team imagines/designs/curates/manifests creative concepts, campaigns, and assets that define and express the Brooks brand. Print, retail, packaging, web, digital, events—even porta potties—are our canvas and runners are our inspiration. Our growing team seeks a Digital Production Designer to develop marketing creative to support seasonal product launches, events, and retail.
As a Production Designer, you’ll bring your creative talent, passion, keen eye, and creative thinking to every project that comes your way. Your design range will stretch across digital and global brand assets, in-store POP, events, presentations, and catalogues,. As part of the go-to-market design team, collaboration and flexibility are as important as your design chops and communication prowess.
Your Responsibilities:
- Assist in the design development of seasonal product launches, by translating creative assets into all channels, including print, events, shop-in-shops, brooksrunning.com, email marketing, social media content, as well as dynamic retail creative.
- Create executions of web- and print-ready assets in multiple dimensions and formats, using guidelines from approved creative concepts.
- Improve efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of the creative design team by maintaining and streamlining templates while informing of best practices.
- Handle design changes, such as resizing or text modifications and layout changes under tight timelines in a highly iterative and collaborative environment.
- Create static and animated offsite banner ads to support marketing initiatives.
- Ensure consistency of design and follow brand guidelines.
- Prepare files for client reviews and hand off production-ready files to the development team.
- Continually develop your design, presentation, and strategic skills; push your thinking beyond current projects with an understanding of how design solutions made today can affect future applications.
- Create designs for internal presentations and materials for internal meetings or events.
- Build and foster relationships with other team members at Brooks to gain and maintain a current and deep understanding of what drives the brand, business, and products.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or equivilant experience
- 3+ years experience as a Production Designer on an in-house creative team, agency, or similar environment
- Print and digital design experience a must
- Creative portfolio demonstrating best in class layout, typography, and conceptual skills
- Must have strong layout skills. Animation tools a plus
- Must have a working understanding of both the print and digital design spaces.
- Fluent in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Figma, InVision, Powerpoint and After Effects.
- Well versed in design and workflow best practices
- Acutely detail-oriented
- Proven project/time management skills
- Able to work both independently within a team environment, and collaboratively with diverse teams to achieve exceptional results
- Must possess a great attitude, sense of humor, and drive to improve the Brooks brand
Compensation:
The pay range for this position, based out of the Brooks Seattle HQ, is $64,170 - $96,255 per year. Base pay offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Other:
Brooks is proud to offer a robust benefits package to our employees and their families!
Benefits- including medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance, HSA and employer contribution, FSA, family & fertility assistance, 401K Savings Plan and match, employee assistance program, and transportation assistance.
Paid Time Off- Brooks offers generous time off including three to five weeks of paid time off, eleven paid holidays, paid sick and parental leave.
Bonus- in addition to base pay, Brooks employees may also be offered an annual bonus based on company performance.
Perks- including product discounts, employee recognition, fitness discounts, volunteer and donation benefits.
Location- You will spend 3 to 4 days per week in our Seattle offices, depending on your role, as we believe our organization flourishes when connections, collaboration, creativity, problem-solving, and celebrations happen in person.
At Brooks, we celebrate diversity & equity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment, and encourage people of all backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills to apply. Brooks is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, two-spirit identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), honorable discharge or military status, protected citizen status, actual or perceived victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, HIV or Hepatitis C infection, political ideology, use of a trained guide dog by a person with a disability, or on any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, or any other non-merit based factors.
