Digital Artist (Contract)
locations
Remote - United States
time type
Full time
job requisition id
Req_12660
Job Description Summary:
Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.
Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers who bring ideas to life across digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We value both big ideas and thoughtful execution, with a hands-on, highly collaborative approach to product development and design systems.
Digital Artists at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom. As a member of Amplify’s design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify’s art content.
• This is a contract role.
Essential Responsibilities:
Create age-appropriate narrative art that brings the literacy curriculum to life through illustrated characters and storytelling
Collaborate closely with the art director or design lead to gather requirements for art specs, and produce illustrations from sketch to final vector art
Collaborate with interaction developers and UX designers
Follow established visual style guidelines, and be able to work across a variety of styles
Articulate concepts and creative solutions visually and verbally
Iterate on deliverables based on stakeholder and team feedback
Contribute to at least 3 of the following workflows, based on qualifications: asset production in Figma/Adobe suite, animation in AfterEffects, print layout design in InDesign, graphic design in Figma/Illustrator, iconography, photo research, photo retouching in Photoshop
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in graphic arts, design, illustration, communications, or related field
3+ years of experience in illustration
Ability to draw by hand
Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, AfterEffects and InDesign
Experience with creating rapid sketches and thumbnails for review and feedback
Experience with creating rich, high-fidelity vector art illustrations
Ability to follow style guides, and adapt to multiple illustration styles
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Superb visual and conceptual skills to solve problems and create novel solutions
Demonstrated expertise in at least three of the following areas:
Figma
Photo retouching and image creation in Photoshop
Animation or motion graphics in AfterEffects
Typography, graphic design, and print production in InDesign
Icon design in Illustrator and/or Figma
Photo research
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with storyboarding or sequential storytelling
Experience with animation or motion graphics
Experience with visual design in education technology or a related field
Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of education
Experience with working with mobile game assets
Experience with Design Systems
Experience with A11Y in visual content
Compensation:
The hourly rate range for this role is $55 - $57.