Franklin Street is currently seeking a Graphic Designer to join our team in Austin, TX.
The ideal candidate must possess a bachelor's degree in graphic design and at least 4 years of design experience using the entire Adobe Creative Suite in a PC environment. Proficiency in PowerPoint, Canva, Photoshop, and Constant Contact is required for this position. Ideally, the candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and have a team player mentality with the ability to collaborate with other designers on the same project.
Position Overview:
The Graphic Designer will produce creative collateral for all business lines, ensuring alignment with the company's brand from concept to final product and utilizing creative programs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a high level of creative development and production skills. This position will work in a fast-paced B2B Marketing environment within a Marketing team setting on a vast variety of design projects ranging from printed marketing collaterals to digital assets including video.
- Work under the direction of the Senior Marketing Manager to develop creative assets for innovative marketing initiatives for all business lines.
- Manage creative work to ensure work is delivered on time, on budget, and to a high-quality standard, all within brand.
- Design the development of creative assets including digital (web & social), print(brochures, sell sheets), trade show support, photography, and video.
- Design and manage the development of all business line creative assets including digital (web & social), print (brochures, sell sheets), photography, and video. Including, but not limited to creative deliverables behind innovative marketing initiatives such as podcasts and video series.
- Design customized marketing materials for client deliverables, pitch presentations, and custom offering memorandums. Including, but not limited to print and interactive collateral such as proposals, offering memorandums, graphics/covers, flyers, maps, aerials, logos, floor plans, pictures, presentation graphic/charts, end bound books and high-end listings with property- specific color palette, property-specific graphic elements/themes
- Create templated designs for marketing materials to be used by business lines such as collateral, digital assets, signage, email, video templates and various other materials.
- Creates storyboards for various videos and, at times, direct photo/video shoots.
- Collaborate with Corporate Designer to design & coordinate exhibit booths and dynamic collateral for events and trade shows.
- Manage creative requirements, expectations, and deadlines for all projects
- Manage and prioritize incoming requests from Commercial Real Estate Business Lines and Brokers
- Work with Senior Marketing Manager, Commercial Real Estate Business Lines, Brokers and Analysts to creatively translate complex data sets and concepts into an easily understandable end-product
- Provide design advice and guidance to deal team; taking verbal and written input and apply to graphic illustrations.
- Successfully transfer Analyst-provided content and data from Microsoft Excel and other software to Adobe InDesign and PowerPoint Templates.
- Acts as a source of knowledge and ideas for all things creative, providing value-added insights on how to represent Franklin Street to the public across all marketing channels. Consistently delivering fresh ideas and designs to support strategic campaigns across social media, digital advertising, print advertising and email platforms.
- Consistently seeks opportunities for personal and professional skill development to assist in providing services to grow the brand.
- Communicates clearly and efficiently to ensures deadlines are met for all projects.
- Oversee printing and distribution of books, presentation boards, and other printed materials
- Pre-press projects and organizes files for print production, has a solid understanding of the printing process, finishing techniques, paper quality trends/knowledge and can review proofs.
- Interact professionally with clients and vendors to complete marketing-related tasks (scheduling property photography, printing materials, requesting approvals, etc)
- Manage and work closely with outside vendors and printing companies to ensure company standards are met.
- Apply professional graphic design principles and develop new ideas to support business development.
- Work additional hours as necessary to properly service our business and clients.
- Take initiative to determine when others need help and assist as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design or similar.
- Minimum of 4 years design experience using the entire Adobe Creative Suite in a PC environment including but not limited to InDesign and Illustrator.
- Proficient in PowerPoint, Canva, Photo Shop, and Constant Contact.
- Team player mentality with the ability to collaborate with other designers on the same project.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to design within branding standards.
- Attention to detail a must.
- Ability to use tact and diplomacy when interacting with others.
- Well-developed verbal, listening, written and creative design skills.
- Excellent time management, planning and problem solving
- HTML coding in design skills a plus.
- Commercial Real Estate experience a plus.
- Adobe After Effects & Premier Pro experience a plus.
About Franklin Street:
Franklin Street is a family of full-service real estate companies focused on delivering value-added solutions to meet clients' evolving needs. Through a collaborative philosophy of leveraging the resources, expertise, and experience of each of its divisions—Real Estate, Capital, Insurance, Property Management, and Project Management—Franklin Street offers unmatched value and optimal solutions for clients nationwide.
Make your next career move with Franklin Street. With seven lines of business and nine offices across, that perfect opportunity you've been looking for is here. We believe in hiring a mix of experienced and new talent to join our team of professionals. Whatever your expertise, wherever you are on your career path, Franklin Street is your destination for success.
Learn more about Franklin Street and our award-winning culture at www.FranklinSt.com.
Franklin Street offers competitive salaries, medical – including additional discounts, dental, and vision benefits, disability, and life insurance, 401(K), paid time off, and holiday pay. We also love working together to help the community through our company-sponsored philanthropy events.
Must be able to successfully pass pre-employment (post-offer) drug screen and background check.
Franklin Street and Lighthouse HR Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Religion, Color, National Origin, Citizenship, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Ancestry, Veteran Status, Genetic Information, or any other classification protected by law.