Designer/Illustrator

Full-time
Job description

As a designer, you ask yourself, “How can I make this better?” You have a masterful knowledge of typography for web and print platforms. Adobe Creative Cloud is your BFF, and memories of making the logo bigger give you migraines. You are a fantastic teammate and an even better employee. Composition is second nature. Your Instagram photos are probably frame worthy. You see impossible design requests as a challenge, not as a wall. You’re bright, passionate, and driven. You can work well with others and work efficiently when accomplishing independent tasks.

The Fun Stuff
  • Collaborate with teammates to create and illustrate print and digital designs that are beautiful, purposeful, and innovative
  • Develop brands and style guides from scratch
  • Design various visual communications products including presentations, brochures, promotional materials, social media posts, banners, websites, etc.
  • Create custom graphics for web and video production
  • Employ critical thinking and visual problem-solving to illustrate complex data relationships
  • Advocate for illustration best practices on internal and external client tasking•Meet with and respond to clients and executives, ensuring their needs are taken care of
The Necessities
  • You have a bachelor’s degree in a creative discipline; experience requirements are flexible depending on the project  
  • Your superpower is vector illustration  
  • You are fluent in the Adobe Creative Suite tools  
  • You have a keen sense of typography, layout, and color with a hunger for innovation   
  • Your design eye is so refined that you can adapt your style to any challenge that is thrown at you  
  • Your ability to design for multiple platforms, including print and web, is second nature  
  • You are a strong communicator with the ability to provide and receive constructive criticism, as well as the ability to articulate design concepts directly to clients  
  • You know how to hit deadlines and get the job done   
The Place to Be

Work location is in Columbia, Maryland and the surrounding area.

The Peppers

Eleven Peppers is a woman-owned small business that provides a full range of creative services to government and commercial clients. We love to solve the Nation’s hardest problems through innovative approaches in design, strategy, and engineering. Our incredibly talented team includes some of the smartest in the industry, but more importantly, we’re also really nice to work with. Top that off with great benefits, competitive pay, and an immersive creative culture with tons of career opportunities. Join us!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws.

Note: Only candidates that are the best fit for the position will be contacted for an interview. A design challenge may also be required.

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