Graphic Designer

Reporting to the Lead Graphic Designer, the Graphic Designer will provide strong creative thinking, solid design skills, will maintain Derrick Corporation brand standards, and ensure the delivery of required creative assets for our marketing team at out corporate headquarters in Buffalo, NY (near Galleria Mall).

This role will work with global members of the Derrick Corporation marketing team as well as our product teams and sales teams to achieve desired business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Execute creative on year-long strategies, short-term campaigns, and ad hoc marketing elements to drive engagement and achieve established success metrics.
• Design and execute marketing and promotional pieces, including webpages, direct response landing pages, digital ads, social graphics, infographics, brochures, event graphics, white papers, case studies, video, collateral materials, field reports, and any internal or external presentations.
• Communicate visual designs, motion designs, and storyboards to team.
• Meaningfully contribute in brainstorms to build creative ideas.
• Provide status updates regularly on projects.
• Have a comprehensive knowledge of creative platforms and an appetite to learn new platforms, technologies, and other trending topics that are related to the creative space.
• Collaborate with team members from creative, social, communications, strategy/planning, product, and analytics to produce smart and powerful work.
• Responsible for managing own workload and timelines>
• Stay abreast of creative trends — be a sponge; absorb ideas from the internet, TV, social, and every other aspect of daily life.
• Strong ability to focus and prioritize workload and resources across a dynamic mix of projects and timelines.

Skills & Expertise:

• BS/BA Degree (Multimedia, Advertising, Marketing or Fine Arts concentration preferred).
• 3-5 years of proven experience in creative, digital design, and content creation in creative agencies, client side or in an in-house agency setting.
• Proficient in current Adobe Creative Suite software, (especially InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator — animation experience a plus but not required).
• Strong working knowledge of digital marketing and the creative process as a whole, with a varied experience that ranges from any of the following competencies: graphic design, interactive design, event/experiential, video/broadcast.
• Good presentation skills and good communication abilities that can be used to sell ideas.
• Experienced with strategic brainstorming and campaign development.
• Solid understanding of digital and printing processes.
• Demonstrated ability to convey technical information into simple yet powerful design(s).
• Great design, typography, and layout skills.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently, with good time management skills.
• Ability to be flexible within the creative process. Ability to take direction yet still maintain intuition and brand aesthetic.
• Takes initiative — doesn’t wait to be told what or how to do something.

Salary Range: $50,000 - $60,000

About Derrick Corporation: For over 70 years, Derrick Corporation has been the global leader in advanced separation and screening technology in the mining and energy industries. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and safe work environment. We believe in being accountable and upholding the values of integrity and responsibility in everything we do. Our dedication to innovation drives us to continually explore new ways to improve for a better tomorrow for our team, our clients, and our communities.

To learn more about Derrick Corporation, please visit our website at: www.Derrick.com