Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Designer, you will create and execute a wide range of concepts and creative solutions. You will execute digital creative projects from concept to completion - following the global brand direction and digital style guides. You will be focused on creating excellent, compelling, and effective executions that deliver against specific creative briefs. You will collaborate with the rest of the creative team - including art directors, copywriters, designers, project managers, and producers - as well as all strategic stakeholders. You are responsible for adhering to templates and best practices as well as driving the creative work of assistant designers.

Key Responsibilities:

Design & Execution

• Able to manage and direct projects independently.
• Make final deliverables for briefed projects in Photoshop, Figma, Powerpoint, or Celtra.
• Own and maintain presentations across all briefed projects.
• Provide moodboard imagery for concepts and visual direction.
• Responsible for post-production tasks (creation of supers, image and gif selection/cropping and delivery when applicable).

• Assist in writing or creating any editing/retouching/post feedback to partners.
• Ensure files names and metadata are correct.
• Double-check own work and self-edit before sending to Art Director/Sr. Designer for approval.

Creative Direction

• Participates in brief kickoffs.
• Read brief carefully and ask critical questions.
• Participate in brainstorms and concepting exercises.
• Research trends and find imagery to support concepts or visual directions.
• Present to stakeholders when requested.
• Assist in creative partner selection.
• Assist production details including location, casting, props, styling, treatment of shoot.

Art-Direction/On-Set

• Assist in creation of shot list
• Assist in creation of storyboard
• Monitor shot list, lighting, and framing on-set. Raise concerns.
• Mockup selects to ensure framing/shot usability.
• Be solution oriented.

Key Relationships:

• The Studio A PDX Creative team at large
• Sr. Designer or Sr. Manager, Art Direction (Manager)
• Project management and production teams
• Stakeholders and project briefers (Digital Content, Retail Marketing, Membership, SEO Editiorial, Planning)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Extensive knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Comprehensive knowledge of Figma and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of Celtra or a willingness to learn.

Soft Skills :

• Strong communication & negotiation skills.
• Comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely.
• Ability to maintain consistency across designs while following campaign and brand direction.
• A collaborative mindset.

Requisite Education and Experience:

• A degree with focus on design, visual art, and/or related areas.
• 3+ years of experience as a digital designer.
• Experience developing successful concepts and working in collaborative multi-functional teams.
• Experience in design industry and ability to predict future trends.

About Studio A

Studio A PDX launched in October 2021, and resides within the adidas America Portland HQ. We're an internal digital creative studio. We make (or adapt) just about every campaign you see on adidas.com, the app, the blog, and much of the email across North America. We’re busy!

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best. We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.
• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support , short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone year.
• We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The working location of this position is Portland, OR
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.