Editorial Content Designer

The App Store is the world's largest and most innovative software store. Designed to make discovering apps and games easier than ever, the App Store offers compelling stories, in-depth interviews, helpful tips and collections of must-have apps and games that showcase a unique perspective and help and inspire customers every day. The Product & Design team is looking for an Editorial Content Designer to help produce and manage key visuals for the App Store. This role is for a visual communicator and problem solver who wants to have their hands in several things at once; can deliver designs from concept to implementation.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A fountain of ideas and creative thinking who can react and implement quickly, laterally, independently or collaboratively.
• Exhibits extraordinary user experience and storytelling instincts, complemented by an insatiable curiosity to deliver nothing but the best for the user.
• Strategically-centered, wildly creative, with an acute attention to detail.
• Embraces collaboration with Creatives, Project Managers, Business Owners, and Stake Holders-valuing the virtue of simplifying complex problems through collective efforts.
• A team player ready to pick up any project, be it lengthy and complex or small and executional.

Responsibilities

• Conceptual thinking and creative oversight of original content.
• Art direction and development for design-based deliveries.
• Communicating technical specifications and functional requirements to third party partners.
• Creative partnership with copy editors.
• Design Keynote presentations/decks
• Support Marketing/PR requests for App Store related content.

Key Qualifications

• Experience creating engaging content design visuals (e.g., Digital Content, Web, Social, Journalism etc.).
• Passion and keen awareness of visual design trends associated with the Games/Apps/Entertainment industry.
• Prior experience designing with third-party IP or promotional content.
• Fluency across graphic design, typography, photography, and illustration.
• Experience managing external artists/vendors/agencies; including writing clear and concise creative briefs, visual communication with swipe and drafting storyboards.
• Deep knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Additional visual and motion design software proficiencies are a plus.
• Demonstrates command of visual and communication design principles.
• Comfort working in a fast paced production environment while collaborating with cross functional teams.
• Clear communication, excellent organization skills and strong attention to detail.

Additional Requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating perfection in delivering strategic design ideas across digital, social or static form factors.
• 4+ years relevant design or creative leadership experience required.
• Bachelor's degree in Web, Graphic, Information, Communication design or equivalent.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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