Job description
At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors.
If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.
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To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here.
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Guild is hiring a Brand Designer to activate and evolve Guild’s visual presence internally and externally, collaborating across our efforts to establish an iconic, purposeful brand through the implementation of outstanding creative work.
As a Brand Designer, you will:
- Work alongside a team of designers and collaborate across all creative outputs in service of Guild’s brand while contributing to a positive and inclusive culture.
- Participate in and prepare for design and animation walkthroughs, critiques, and reviews.
- Leverage design thinking activities cross-functionally to absorb knowledge and needed information from stakeholders and build overall business acumen.
- Produce and execute high-quality and production-ready deliverables for print, digital, and animation including brand assets, campaign work, social media, events, ebooks, and emails.
- Support and uphold team processes and systems and contribute to improving workflows.
- Collaborate on the direction and evolution of Guild’s brand and visual identity, upholding and helping to expand and scale design systems and processes.
- Operate with some direction and guidance, ensuring all work adheres to brand guidelines and meets quality standards.
- Demonstrate excellent attention to detail and time management to successfully meet deadlines and produce work aligned to expectations.
- Leverage critical thinking and creative problem solving to drive impactful visual solutions.
- Advocate for creative choices and effectively communicate rationale and process.
You are a strong fit for this role if you have:
Required Competencies
- 3-5+ years of experience in high-functioning creative teams, ideally both in-house and agency-side, working on / managing multiple stakeholders.
- Advanced in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects; advanced in Figma.
- Skilled in creating motion graphics and animations for web, social, and video.
- Understands how to bring marketing campaigns to life through interactive or animated content.
- Familiar with designing for web experiences, including responsible layouts and lightweight animation best practices.
- Ability to design for digital marketing channels (email, web, social, ads, etc.) as well as print (direct mailers, etc.); comfortable creating polished, on-brand assets that drive engagement.
- Ability to turn briefs or goals into thoughtful, effective design solutions; willing to explore different directions and iterate based on feedback.
- Comfortable managing projects from concept to final delivery.
Preferred Competencies
- Late-stage startup experience preferred.
- Something else? Wonderful, we’re curious to learn more about you!
We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $75,800-$106,100, and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.
At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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