Contract Graphic Designer
March 5, 2025 –May 5, 2025
Reports to Marketing Manager
Pay: $3,500/month
Please submit a resume and a brief cover letter with a link to your portfolio.
We are looking for a graphic designer to create engaging on-brand graphics using SeriesFest’s brand guidelines. The ideal candidate will have strong, agile creative skills and a portfolio of work which demonstrates their process and experience.
GENERAL
- Full time Contract Position
- Hybrid: Downtown Denver, CO
- A degree or equivalent work experience in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts or related field
- Festival or event experience is preferred.
SKILLS
- A keen eye for aesthetics, detail, and clarity
- An affinity for solving design problems in a fast-paced festival/event environment
- The flexibility to employ best practices while leaving room for creative solutions
- The agility to design varied, impactful materials (most often using our brand kits)
- Proactivity in communication and action
- Ability to balance autonomous and collaborative work environments
- Experience with commercial printing requirements and practices (prepress), as well as digital formats (including social media, web banner ads, email, digital billboards, presentations, video assets, etc)
- Experience with InDesign’s “Data Merge”
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines as they are assigned throughout the contract.
- Experience with animation/motion graphics is a plus.
TECHNOLOGY
- Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and G-Suite are required
- Experience with Airtable is preferred
DUTIES & TASKS
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Providing graphic design support, testing graphics across media (digital and print), and ensuring output aligns with SeriesFest’s brand standards.
- Conceptualizing, designing, testing, proofing, and facilitating production for marketing materials using our media and brand toolkit (not limited to festival badges, signs/posters, programs, flyers, digital and print ads, merchandise, step and repeats, invitations, email graphics, social media graphics, presentations, and web graphics)
- Proofing copy for impact, spelling, and grammar (final quality control)
- Preparing files for commercial printing (prepress) and checking printer proofs.
- Organizing and responding to feedback from all communication channels, ensuring final output aligns with SeriesFest’s expectations.
- Participating in weekly design reviews and revisions, as well as all-hands department and company meetings.
- Setup/install and breakdown of marketing materials and associated fixtures.
- All SeriesFest staffers are expected to support and engage each guest, staff member, and department. We are all here to ensure the success of our festival and the year round organization.
AAP/EEO Statement: SeriesFest 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.
