Status: Contract-to-hire
Job Title: Graphic Designer
Location: Hybrid in Scottsdale, AZ, or Minnetonka, MN
Salary: $68,000
About the company:
We are a pioneering brand in the food and beverage industry, revolutionizing the way families enjoy fresh meals at home. As the largest operator and franchisor of our unique culinary concept in the nation, we blend the convenience of quick service with the quality of a home cooked meal. Our stores do not have freezers or ovens. Instead, we focus entirely on preparing fresh ingredients daily so our customers can bake and serve our products piping hot in their own kitchens.
Our success is built on a foundation of freshness, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to the guest experience. By eliminating the cooking process from our retail locations, our team members can focus completely on food quality and exceptional customer service. This highly efficient operational model provides a phenomenal foundation for our franchise owners and corporate teams alike. We are passionate about bringing people together over great food and empowering our local communities.
Graphic Designer:
Our client is seeking an experienced Graphic Designer to create polished, engaging work across both print and digital channels. The ideal candidate is a highly creative, self-sufficient designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can move confidently between multiple projects and industries, and brings strong design fundamentals and production expertise to both original concepts and repurposed creative.
This role is a hybrid model in Minnetonka, Minnesota, or Scottsdale, Arizona.
Graphic Designer Responsibilities:
- Design and produce high-quality print and digital creative, including marketing collateral, direct mail, promotional materials, digital assets, displays, advertising, and other customer-facing communications.
- Develop original creative concepts as well as adapt, refresh, and repurpose existing artwork for new formats, audiences, campaigns, and business needs.
- Manage multiple concurrent design requests, often involving smaller, quick-turn projects, while consistently meeting deadlines and maintaining a high standard of quality.
- Translate creative briefs and stakeholder requests into visually compelling solutions that demonstrate strong layout, typography, composition, illustration, and overall design principles.
- Maintain brand consistency while exercising sound creative judgment and working independently with minimal oversight.
- Create sophisticated layouts and production-ready artwork using Adobe Creative Suite, with a strong emphasis on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat.
- Prepare files for both digital distribution and commercial print production, ensuring accuracy, proper specifications, and readiness for external vendors and production partners.
- Collaborate with marketing teams, project stakeholders, fellow creatives, and external partners to incorporate feedback and efficiently move projects through completion.
- Track assignments, priorities, revisions, and deadlines through project management systems such as Wrike while managing a high volume of requests.
- Maintain organized creative files, templates, reusable assets, and project archives to support efficient and consistent creative execution.
Graphic Designer Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional graphic design experience in an agency, design firm, in-house creative team, or similarly fast-paced environment.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional command of core design principles, including layout, typography, composition, visual hierarchy, branding, and polished creative execution across print and digital work.
- Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat, with strong experience in print layouts, vector graphics, illustration, and image manipulation.
- Proven ability to work independently, take ownership of assignments, and produce high-quality creative with minimal direction or oversight.
- Demonstrated ability to work quickly and effectively while balancing multiple projects, shifting priorities, revisions, and short turnaround times.
- Experience developing both original creative and adapting existing artwork for different formats, channels, campaigns, and audiences.
- Agency or multi-client experience is highly valued, particularly experience designing across multiple industries, brands, or types of creative work.
- Strong print-production knowledge, including experience preparing press-ready artwork and working with commercial printing and production specifications.
- Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the flexibility to respond constructively to feedback and changing business needs.
- Experience with animation, motion graphics, or video-based creative is a significant plus; familiarity with Wrike or similar project management platforms is also beneficial.
