Overview
Designer Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Title: Designer
Company: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Job Description
This role supports the Publishing Services Magazine Design team by providing creative solutions that support originating departments objectives. They understand the needs of originating departments and work cooperatively with them to provide creative and design services in close collaboration with the art director, senior design staff, and originators.
Responsibilities
- Solve design problems & project problems on small – x-large projects.
- Develop concepts that represent a product, a message, a story, or an experience that solve business and communication objectives, accounting for the design complexities and the associated production requirements.
- Strong ability to work independently and collaboratively with colleagues and other creative disciplines to execute business and design objectives
- Support senior design staff on more complex projects
- Work under minimum supervision on the major aspects of a project’s development and progress before work is submitted to internal stakeholders.
- Provide bids, work duration estimations, and art direction to outside illustrators for small-x-large projects.
- Work within multilevel approval structures to successfully interpret business needs, research and stakeholder requirements to produce products and experiences that tell compelling stories.
- Maintain the appropriate quality and creative standards within schedule and cost limitations in-house and with vendors.
- Delivery of product under tight deadlines and project constraints
This Role Is NOT Responsible For The Following
- Content editing, writing, project management, or people management (hiring decisions, formal performance appraisal, time approval, etc.)
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Four years of experience, demonstrated through a professional portfolio. Please provide link.
- Required proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite. Mainly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Experience in Adobe Premier, AfterEffects, and Figma a plus.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Critical visual thinking and problem-solving skills
- Team players who collaborate on projects.
- Strong time management skills with demonstrated ability to deliver under tight deadlines and project constraints
- Prior experience creating content for children or working in an editorial publishing environment a plus.
- Strong drawing skills and creativity a plus.
About Us
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
