Description
About Us
Nerd Corps Entertainment, established in 2002, is a DHX Media company, boasting a diverse portfolio of award-winning original properties such as Slugterra, League of Super Evil, Storm Hawks and Rated A for Awesome. With six shows in production, there is always a genre or character to keep you interested and challenged. But we’re more than just an animation studio. Our 400 creatives build stories, worlds, and experiences for kids that cut across platforms from television to online, games, toys, mobile—wherever kids are spending time. We handle all stages of our process in-house, from the IP creation and development to post-production, finance, sales and distribution, licensing and consumer products, and interactive development, making us a rarity in the industry. Our studio near Vancouver’s trendy Commercial Drive is a vibrant mixture of rookies and veterans, where those fresh out of college can continue learning from mid-career and senior artists, and where every level of experience can make the most of their talent on some of the best kids shows and games in the world.
Leo, Gemini, Emmy…been there, won that.
Come work for an award-winning studio and make cartoons, not war.
Department: Marketing
Location: Vancouver
About the Position
Nerd Corps has just joined the DHX Media family, and we’re looking for one great senior graphic designer to join our team and support our growing roster of original kids’ properties! Come work on the marketing materials for some of the best, coolest, most fun kids’ shows on TV today, from comedies to action-adventures to preschool. As the marketing team’s senior graphic designer, you will help guide the way each property is presented to kids, consumers and the industry by creating original concepts for the main marketing image, posters, and other collateral. Your work will be seen by kids all over the world, and it will mean the world to many of them!
Responsibilities
- Work with the director of marketing and multiple teams both internally and externally to develop and produce promotional material for multiple kids’ properties and studio marketing needs, including ads, printed collateral, swag, websites, promotional artwork and mobile apps
- Responsible for developing logos, design elements, guidelines, key artwork and contributing to campaign creative
- Develop promotional artwork and assets for outside partners to use in various media including print, web and mobile
- Provide quality control on artwork assets received from production teams
- Provide creative leadership, guidance and mentorship to our junior graphic designer to produce the highest quality work that exceeds expectations
- Accept feedback on designs and execute on changes quickly
- Complete work assigned within the scheduled timeframe
- Maintain show style and established brand guidelines in designs, and execute work according to creative briefs
Qualifications
- 4+ years in graphic design
- Diploma or degree in Graphic Design, Commercial Arts or related
- Must have 2D design and print production experience
- Proficiency in Mac environment
- Proficiency in Adobe CS4, including Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Demonstrated ability to develop targeted materials for multiple audiences (girls, boys, gender-neutral, and ages preschool to tweens/early teens
- Must possess excellent communication, interpersonal, and multi-tasking skills
- Excellent creative problem-solving skills and strategic thinking skills
- Self-management and reviewing one’s own schedule is required, as is notifying department head of any tasks that may be missing or improperly specified
- Thrive in a high pressure, deadline oriented environment
- Enjoy working in team atmosphere and have a proactive approach to work
- Experience in children’s film, television or interactive industry an asset but not required
THANK YOU to all those who express interest in being a part of the Nerd Corps team. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we receive, we may be unable to reply to all applicants. If we feel that you may be a good match for one of our current openings you will be contacted.