Graphic Designer

6-month Contract potential to convert

Primarily remote with occasional meeting in Minneapolis

An ideal candidate for this position should be at home working across a range of tooling,

including design prototyping tools, email-service provider interfaces, visual QA testing services

and they should have experience working with HTML and CSS inside of newsletter frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the core newsletter team to understand individual newsletter.
• strategies, insights and measures of success that will inform the build process.
• Help design, build and iterate on new and existing newsletters within a broader design.
• system using Figma, a new design and prototyping tool being adopted internally this.
• spring
• Review designs.
• Help audit our current newsletter design system to identify opportunities and gaps
• Commission and art direct new visual assets as part of an existing design system.
• Leverage our existing newsletter build tools (Emma) to create new templates and send.
• tests of works-in-progress
• Work closely with newsletter producers in the newsroom to coach them on using Emma.
• to produce new daily newsletters
• Test new newsletters with Litmus to make sure designs work across a range of email.
• clients

Qualifications

• Must have newsletter / email design experience.
• Experience with Figma, sketch or XD
• HTML and CSS
• Ideally some testing experience to ensure newsletters are displaying correctly.