GRAPHIC DESIGNER

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Ki Culture is a social impact nonprofit (start-up) based in Amsterdam. Our organization is looking for a Graphic Designer to add to our growing team. Our work culture is collaborative, dynamic and fun, and our team is very dedicated to fulfilling the mission of Ki Culture, of promoting sustainability through culture.

We're seeking a graphic designer to join our team on a volunteer basis with potential for part- or full-time employment. We are primarily interested in designers with experience, but this is also a great opportunity for a graphic design student or recent graduate who is looking to build their portfolio.

A Designer on our team brings design strategy together with technical skills to concept, design, and produce print and digital design projects for assets, branding, marketing, and web. They collaborate with other creative team members to create work that is both aesthetically outstanding and conceptually thoughtful. They are expected to bring creative concepts to the table that meet project specs and are contextually relevant and aware of project/brand guidelines, creative and technical requirements. Simply put they understand the big picture objectives of the work they’re creating and create designs that go beyond the visual to own the conceptual meaning of everything on the artboard.

• Ability to take project requirements, raw ideas, copy and content to create designs that clarify concepts, create emotional resonance, and elevate brands and campaigns and digital work.
• Collaborate and communicate with creative team, accounts, and technical team members - including copywriters and photo/video to produce content in service of designs.
• Always on the lookout for ways to streamline process & reduce friction with team
• Fluent in the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, Keynote, Google Docs
• Technically advanced in color theory, typography, composition and photo retouching
• Be self-sufficient and able to problem solve and manage timelines on your own - speak back to project requirements and find alternate solutions when hitting roadblocks
• Collaborate with the Design, Social Media and Communications teams to bring the designs to life
• Discuss and be eager for feedback on designs
• Present work professionally, in context, bringing design choices together with project requirements to explain work in a dynamic, creative presentation
• Ability to create presentations that conceptualize creative, digital, and marketing work both in service of your own presentations, and the agency’s
• Ability to participate in collaborative meetings and conversations internally and externally
• Data visualisation expertise - ability to translate data sets and other information into infographics and easily digestible charts or graphics for use across publications, presentations and social media

Your responsibilities include the design, execution, internal and external presentation of:

• Ki Culture’s Ki Books
• Creation and layout of online designs including, but not limited to, websites, user interface mockups and landing pages with a strong consideration for user experience for Web, tablets, and mobile devices
• Logo and visual identity design
• Social media content
• Design moodboards
• Brand moodboards
• Photo/Video treatment moodboards
• Presentation design
• Research and asset collection
• Digital and Print Production
• Q/A work against project specs proactively searching for errors like spelling mistakes, omitted or incorrect information, sizing errors, technical file issues, etc.

If this sounds like you, please email info@kiculture.com with the subject line: "Graphic Designer". Please include a brief email about yourself & experience, resume, and link to a portfolio as well as any live examples of past work. We look forward to hearing from you!