WROC/RochesterFirst is hiring a Graphic Artist to join our award-winning team. With the credibility and strength of our 75-year trusted brand, WROC/RochesterFirst is Rochester, NY’s universal local source for news, weather, and information across all platforms.
Rochester, NY, ranked as the nation’s second most affordable housing market, offers an exceptional quality of life—with outstanding dining, lively entertainment, scenic parks and golf courses, and a friendly, welcoming community.
WROC-8 (CBS) in Rochester is seeking a Graphic Artist who will help conceptualize and create graphics for our News, Sales, and Creative Services departments. Candidates must have a background in graphic design, a good sense of graphic layout, accuracy, consistency, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. This role will be responsible for the execution of creative visual graphics from concept boards to final animation. An ideal candidate will have proven experience managing multiple projects and the ability to work collaboratively and independently while producing best in class creative in a fast-paced television broadcast, digital and streaming environment.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Design/create graphics for daily newscasts, programming specials, commercial and promotional spots, and digital graphics for web and social media
Design and build graphics including full screen monitor graphics, set graphics, information graphics, special opens, and custom-designed elements web banners and digital ads.
Create and produce animated graphic opens and elements for local programming including newscasts, sports, political, website and promotions.
Maintain and advance the graphic look of the station, while creating, managing and organizing all graphic needs and related files for multiple projects.
Work cross-functionally with internal departments and throughout Nexstar Media to fulfill the station's graphic needs as needed.
Contribute to special projects such as digital ads, print work, signage, animation and set design as assigned.
Policing and enforcing brand consistency across all projects you helped design.
Assist the Creative team with shooting and editing of promotional and commercial related projects
Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills & Requirements:
Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud including After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator and Ross Xpression graphics system
Operation of Ross Xpression and integration of ENPS newsroom solutions software is recommended
Able to shoot on production video cameras and/or DSLR
Clear communicator with ability to communicate seamlessly with newscast director and flexibility to work in rapidly changing situations
Strong design, illustration and typographic skills
Ability to work on various projects simultaneously and to deliver finished projects on deadline
Must be able to work independently
Highly effective communications and organizational skills
Send your demo reel today!
Compensation $17.50 - 18.27/hour commensurate with applicant’s experience and skill level.
WROC/RochesterFirst, Nexstar Media Inc. offers excellent benefits including paid vacations, holidays, sick leave, and personal days, health insurance plans, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, 401K Retirement Plan, paid parental leave, dental, vision, Teladoc, behavioral health services, prescription drug coverage, life insurance plans, paid short term disability, and many more benefit options. Compensation package will be based on experience.
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across its television and digital platforms, including more than 310,000 hours of programming produced annually by its business units. Nexstar owns America’s largest local television broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 220 million people. Nexstar’s national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, our national news network providing “News for All America,” popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network. The Company’s portfolio of digital assets, including its local TV station websites, The Hill and NewsNationNow.com, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property. For more information, please visit nexstar.tv.
EEO Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
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Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions. In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers. From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
