Junior Presentation Designer

Job Description

Junior Presentation Designer
Location: Chicago or Detroit area

Job Summary: As a Junior Designer on our team, you will be responsible for supporting our account teams by conceptualizing, designing, and developing graphics, illustrations, and decks for new business and client presentations. You will become extremely knowledgeable of FINN brand standards, clients, and the work we do for them. Success in this role is defined and measured by projects being worked on with a meticulous eye for detail and showing a willingness to grow and develop.

About FINN: Founded in 2011, FINN Partners is one of the fastest-growing, independent PR and integrated marketing communications agencies in the world. With more than 1,400 employees operating out of 33 offices around the world, FINN serves a diverse roster of clients through a powerful combination of hands-on partnership, highly-specialized marketing and communications expertise and a values-driven culture that champions collaboration, innovation and strives to create a more equitable world.

Why work for us? More than an agency, we are a bold collective of communications advocates, stewarding brands, protecting reputations, influencing public policy, and leveraging data and analytics to shape the most important conversations of our day.

Most great achievements in science, medicine, the arts, politics, and business are achieved as a result of a group of dedicated individuals coming together with a collaborative spirit. Without every team member, FINN is nothing more than an idea. Together we are special. By working together we are stronger, and it is only by striving together as one team-working hard, playing nice, creating a best-place-to-work environment, taking risks, making the world a better place, and amazing those around us-we can make FINN Partners a truly unique agency. Come be a part of the journey.

Responsibilities
• Creating high-quality, innovative, and on-brand design solutions that exceed the client/team briefs, and which are delivered within the required deadline
• Creating presentations following our brand guidelines for any FINN team member to use when attending client pitches and meetings
• Working with the Account and Creative teams to interpret the client's brief and ensure that content and design work well together and meet the client's needs
• Producing and supplying final files – print-ready PDFs, packaged artwork, assets, specifications, or other requirements
• Preparing, editing, and amending design assets and photography
• Producing specification documents to ensure the proper implementation of our designs
• Showcase familiarity and understanding of our key clients' branding and design guidelines to help us deliver what the client wants
• Keeping Midwest team headshots current and taking/editing shots for new team members
• Working on existing client projects and thinking strategically about their requirements, taking into consideration their brand, their costs, the objectives of the project, and any compliance or IT constraints
• Great eye for selecting assets (icons, illustrations, photography) to complement design solutions

Qualifications
• A natural understanding of the difference between ''making something look good'' and ''making something work
• Ability to work effectively on multiple projects at any one time and be able to demonstrate evidence of managing web and digital projects to successful completion
• Great attention to detail, self-motivated, and highly organized
• Equally happy working with other designers, writers, and strategists, or motivated to work on your own
• Comfortable working to tight deadlines and under pressure
• A positive attitude and the desire to solve difficult problems
• Driven, ambitious, and keen to grow within the company
• Tenacity and a strong desire to make a difference, always with the customer in mind
• Pixel perfect eye for detail.

Requirements
• Portfolio of design work (examples of proposal work, a plus.)
• 1-3 years working as a Designer
• Advanced knowledge and skills in the Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat, as well as the Microsoft Office & especially, the Google Suite (PPT & Slides). Proficiency with Google Slides is mandatory.
• Site design and social media experience preferred.
• Must have a demonstrated commitment to quality, meticulous attention to detail, and consistency in work product.
• Strong layout and design abilities
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to manage a project within a team environment
• Ability to be self-motivated and organized

About FINN Partners
FINN Partners was launched in 2011 to realize Peter Finn's vision to create a leading communications agency dedicated to shaping a bold new future in which innovation and partnership are strong drivers of the brand. FINN Partners specializes in the full spectrum of communications services, including digital and social media. Practice areas include arts, consumer lifestyle & sports, corporate social responsibility, education, health, manufacturing, technology, travel, and public affairs.

We are entrepreneurial-minded, global, and focused on integrated programs that bring to life the world-changing technologies, products, and services of our client partners.  Our company culture celebrates delighting our clients with innovative and creative campaigns and programs, and we provide opportunities for our employees to conduct career-meaningful work in a creative, fast-paced, collaborative, and fun environment. We work hard and play nice.

Headquartered in New York City, the agency has 1,400+ employees, with offices in 24 cities around the world: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Fort Lauderdale, Frankfurt, Jerusalem, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Nashville, Paris, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Tamuning (Guam), Vancouver (Wash.) and Washington DC

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwwy42-3-140-185-123-42 in your application.