Title: Graphic Designer, Brand Studio
Division: Marketing - Studio
Location: Taichung, Taiwan
Job Overview:
Our global creative brand studio team is seeking a Graphic Designer to join our dynamic team. This graphic designer will primarily be focused on offline (print) collateral across our diverse portfolio of brands including DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, STANLEY, BLACK+DECKER, CUBCADET, TROYBILT, Hustler and others. This individual should have a highly trained eye for detail with an ability to execute creative across a range of deliverables using the Adobe Suite including Point of Purchase, signage, large format even graphics, brochures and catalogs. The ideal candidate is a driven self-starter, comfortable with taking charge of their project work from briefing through delivery while collaborating with project managers, art directors, and brand marketers to execute on-brand collateral.
The Ideal Candidate will be able to:
- Execute high quality designs using the adobe suite with a proven track record of design capabilities
- Step out design executions using briefing and intake forms along with working knowledge of Brand design standards and assets
- Work with Photoshop layers, color schemes, color correction, fonts, and clipping paths for image manipulation as well as renderings of creative for spec ideas
- Work with InDesign for page layout, master pages, character and paragraph styles, data merges
- Expertly organize files and follow process standards with an obsession with clean and well-organized design files throughout the development lifecycle.
- Design with a resourceful, problem-solving approach that isn’t afraid to suggest process optimizations, time saving techniques, or new concept proposals.
- Communicate with effective English skills in both speaking and writing, with the ability to understand and communicate context clearly and effectively.
- Work under pressure and track details and changes across multiple projects
- Interact with various stakeholders in the studio and marketing team along the project lifecycle, track changes and work through revisions as required
- Demonstrate knowledge of pre-press and print production, ability to communicate with print vendors for quality control and problem solving as needed
- Assist with creative file management and standards maintenance, experience with Adobe Libraries
- Stay connected with software capabilities and best practices
- Experience with PowerPoint design and master slides a plus
- Experience with Adobe Libraries and Box.com Enterprise a plus
Education and Technical Requirements
- A 4-year degree in graphic design or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of work experience with an in-house creative team or advertising agency.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.
- Excellent English in conversation and in writing.
- A portfolio featuring relevant work experience and examples (required).
- Workfront experience for managing and tracking tasks (a plus).
- Familiarity with AI automation techniques to implement into workflow (a highly desirable plus).
We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
Top Skills
What We Do
For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843.
You repair your home and car with the tools we provide. Your car and your phone are secured with our fasteners. The things you value most can be protected by our security systems. And the roads you drive on, the bridges you cross, the energy you consume, all of these most likely came to you via one of our infrastructure systems.
We join forces to bring together the best of the best to create practical, meaningful products and services that make life easier—empowering people to do better, safer, more significant work. Innovation and excellence have powered our success, but we know there’s more we can do for the world and those who make it. Across our businesses, we’re investing in breakthrough innovation and digital excellence, striving for outperformance and increasing our focus on social responsibility.
We define success as: delivering value to our customers, colleagues and communities. Our commitment to quality, safety and sustainability helps us on our path to becoming the type of uniquely human-centered global industrial company that keeps every stakeholder in mind, while helping to make the world better.
