Job description
Great Minds, a rapidly growing challenger brand in the PK-12 instructional materials space, seeks an experienced Graphic Designer.
Company Profile
Great Minds, a mission driven Public Benefit Corporation, brings teachers and scholars together to craft exemplary instructional materials that inspire joy in teaching and learning. Our English curriculum, Wit & Wisdom ®, Eureka Math ™ and PhD Science ™, all support teachers as they take students beyond rote learning to provide a deeper, more complete understanding of the humanities, mathematics, and the sciences.
Our Market Position
Great Minds' Eureka Math is the most widely used curriculum in the history of American education. It enjoys an unrivaled 40+ net promoter score. Eureka and its sister products, Wit & Wisdom English and PhD Science, embrace much higher expectations for all students and all teachers. In a market dominated by scripted, procedural materials that drive expectations down, Great Minds produces curricula that celebrate knowledge, respect the craft of teaching, and acknowledge the true capabilities of students.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Creative Director; the Graphic Designer oversees the design and development of digital and print materials for the Great Minds brand as well as guiding designer teams across humanities, mathematics and science curricula teams. This role is accountable for designing the look and feel of all the brands, creating a clear and beautiful user experience, and ensuring consistency across the Great Minds brand. The graphic designer will also work with an art director and copywriter in developing advertising and marketing concepts for use in video, print, social media, digital, and collateral. Success in this role necessitates understanding the Great Minds brand and what differentiates our work from the market.
Specific Responsibilities:

• A strong design aesthetic and conceptual skills.
• Help establish the look and feel for Great Minds enterprise brand and how it interacts with our various curriculum brands.
• Establish new brand guidelines for each of the Great Minds curriculum products.
• Create advertising campaigns: work with a writer on concepting and executing various forms of marketing campaigns including online ads, video content, print and collateral pieces.
• Work with production designers, photographers, videographers, and writers remotely.
• Help guided/oversee other internal graphic designers

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree required (Fine Arts, Advertising, Marketing, or related fields, MFA preferred)
• 5 + years of experience as an art director; strong design and/or copywriting abilities required
• 5+ years' experience in design, implementing branding, and creative processes applied to environments, print, and digital media
• Ability to problem solve design element issues with the production team, printers and product delivery vendors and re-implement solutions across the design team
• Proven ability to drive brand and creative strategies through an organization
• Contribute top-level design work of one's own, in addition to serving as a leader and inspiration

Details:

• Full-time.
• Excellent benefits package.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.
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Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization's commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.