Overview:
Union Home Mortgage is seeking a seasoned, creative, conceptual-thinking Associate Creative Director of Design who will help lead the brand strategy and art direction of Union Home Mortgage marketing and advertising while evolving the brand to new, exciting, inspirational heights. Reporting to the Creative Director, you’ll work with copywriters, videographers, designers, and other members of our marketing team to help create engaging designs through a variety of channels including traditional, digital, social, and more.
At UHM, we understand diversity comes in many different forms. It’s our commitment to improve inclusion in the workplace through programs and policies that establish a positive and inclusive environment where every Partner, regardless of their background, can grow and excel. We value diversity, educate on equity, and create inclusive partner opportunities to ensure that you know #UBelongAtUHM!
Responsibilities:
- From social and digital to traditional and brand guidelines, conceptualize and bring to life concepts and deliverables across every medium to help drive action, engagement, and conversions.
- Work collaboratively with marketing team leads, graphic designers and others to generate consistent, on-brand, on-strategy concepts for internal and external projects.
- Lead, brainstorm, and direct internal projects and assignments with our marketing team while assisting other internal and external designers and marketing partners.
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Ensure brand consistency and guidelines are maintained across all channels (UHM brand, etc.) with the possibility of evolving the brand guidelines in the future.
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Maintain up-to-date knowledge of design, marketing, and accessibility best practices to facilitate continual testing and optimization of creative deliverables.
- Tap into current creative cultural trends as well as broader inspirations, and innovations.
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Use data, research, and user feedback to evaluate content’s impact and optimize user experiences.
Education & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design, fine arts, digital design. or related field.
- 5 to 8+ years’ experience as a senior graphic designer or art director; previous ACD experience, advertising, mortgage, and/or financial services industry experience a plus.
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A strong online portfolio that showcases your creative diversity and ability to come up with original ideas and strong conceptual campaigns that answer to a creative brief—and showcases an understanding of typography, colors, layout, and photo manipulation.
- Experience owning a project from initial brainstorm to final execution and optimization.
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Desire, comfortability, and experience giving feedback on the creative work of others.
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Self-motivated and able to juggle multiple projects under tight deadlines.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present to external and internal partners.
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Proven ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Ability to stay up to date on the latest design trends and techniques.
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to translate creative concepts to internal business partners.
- Must be able to work four days in the office with one day of your choice as WFH.
Union Home Mortgage Corp. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.