Graphic Designer
Pacific Western Bank
- Santa Ana, CA
- $78,225-117,362 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Conceptualize and create visually appealing designs for a wide range of digital and print assets, including websites, social media graphics, infographics, banners, brochures, and more.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand project requirements, target audience, and key messaging, ensuring design deliverables effectively communicate the desired message.
- Stay updated with industry trends, design techniques, and emerging technologies, implementing innovative ideas to enhance design quality and user experience.
- Maintain brand consistency and adhere to design guidelines, ensuring all visual assets align with our brand's tone, style, and values.
- Develop illustrations, icons, and other custom graphics that elevate the overall visual impact of our brand.
- Optimize and have knowledge of designs for different platforms, considering factors like responsiveness, load time, and user interface/user experience (UI/UX) best practices.
- Collaborate with external agencies and vendors as needed, managing the production process and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality design assets.
- Conduct regular quality checks to ensure all designs meet our standards and specifications.
- Actively participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute fresh ideas and creative solutions to meet project objectives.
- Adapt quickly to changing priorities and project requirements in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Manages processes within the team to ensure smooth work and project flow for marketing’s needs.
- Supports the VP, Creative Director on all assigned strategic branding, marketing and corporate communications initiatives.
- Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; works ethically and with integrity; upholds organizational values; accepts responsibility for own actions.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and adherence to EEO policy; shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; educates others on the value of diversity; promotes working environment free of harassment of any type; builds a diverse workforce and supports affirmative action.
- Follows policies and procedures; completes tasks correctly and on time; supports the company’s goals and values.
- Performs other duties and projects as assigned.
- Proven success in creating creative designs and campaigns.
- Ability to provide creative and art direction when appropriate.
- Intermediate skills in computer terminal and personal computer operation; Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Intermediate math skills; calculate common fractions and decimals; locate routine mathematical errors; compute rate, ratio and percent, including the drafting and interpretation of bar graphs.
- Effective organizational and time management skills.
- Exceptional oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Outstanding attention to detail and excellent organization skills.
- Ability to remain flexible and persevere while handling several projects with varying deadlines.
- Ability to think independently, be resourceful, and create and develop ideas that lead to positive outcomes.
- Ability to function well in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Ability to use discretion and maintain high levels of confidentiality.
- Ability to adapt deliverables and plans as priorities shift.
- Ability to be a self-starter, take initiative, handle multiple projects simultaneously and ensure deadlines are met.
- Ability to make decisions that have moderate impact on the immediate work unit and cross functional departments.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work schedules on a short-term and long-term basis.
- Ability to provide consultation and expert advice to management.
- Ability to make informal and formal presentations, inside and outside the organization; speaking before assigned team or other groups as needed.
- Ability to work with little to no supervision while performing duties.
- Demonstrates knowledge of, adherence to, monitoring and responsibility for compliance with state and federal regulations and laws as they pertain to this position including but not limited to the following: Regulation Z (Truth in Lending Act), Regulation B (Equal Credit Opportunity Act), Fair Housing Act (FHA), Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in conjunction with the USA PATRIOT Act, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Customer Information Program (CIP), Right to Financial Privacy Act (RFPA, state and federal) and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience in graphic design.
- 2+ years of experience working in a marketing team.
- 2+yrs experience with Creative Suite, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Dreamweaver.
- 2+ yrs experience with Google Web Tools, including Analytics, Tag Manager, Webmaster Tools and Data Studio.
- Experience in the Banking industry preferred.