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Junior Designer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA at Crooked Media
Title: Junior Designer
Company: Crooked Media
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Crooked believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. We are a media network that showcases stories, voices, and opportunities for activism that inform, entertain, and inspire action, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world.
Job Summary:A junior designer at Crooked Media supports the senior design staff. You’ll work on a wide range of projects – from social content to animations to merchandise design. You will also need to provide hands on production support – sourcing images, outlining and color correcting photos (the nitty gritty tasks that make a design team function). The news cycle moves quickly so a Crooked designer needs to be flexible and organized.
Crooked has adopted a hybrid work model for our entire staff. We believe that the best work is done in a hybrid capacity as it combines the flexibility of working from home with in-person collaboration. We are ideally looking for Los Angeles-based candidates, or candidates willing to relocate within the first 3 months of accepting an offer.How You’ll Spend Your Time:
Create visuals across a range of mediums: Design for social media, merchandise, websites, email/newsletters, live shows, and other brand touchpoints.
Design production tasks: Source and outline images, resize assets for social media, and handle photo editing and color corrections.
Newsletter support: Creating daily newsletter graphics and newsletter ads.
Daily design tasks: Social media graphics, creating podcast episode art from templates, creating support material for campaigns, help with pod art refreshes.
Some project management – everyone at Crooked manages a portion of their own project management. You’ll spend some time moving your projects along in Asana, managing feedback that comes in and making sure you’re hitting your own deadlines
Misc support: Everything from participating in brainstorms and contributing creative ideas, to creating signage for the office.
What You’ll Bring To The Table
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2+ years of professional design experience
A working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects specifically)
Working knowledge of Canva
Familiarity with project management software (Asana, Notion, etc)
Working knowledge of Keynote, Google Drive – Docs, Sheets, Slides
The ability to shift quickly between projects
Good organizational skills and an awareness of deadlines
A willingness to accept and respond to feedback
An interest in politics
Experience in or familiarity with industries such as media, entertainment, political campaigns, or marketing
This job description provides a summary of how you’ll spend your time but is nowhere near exhaustive, so other duties may be assigned over time.
Pay and Perks:
At Crooked, we believe in paying employees competitive market salaries. And we also believe in providing holistic and rich benefits to all full time staff, including:
Paid healthcare, with most individual plans paid fully by the company
401k match
Generous vacation and paid leave including, sick, bereavement, pregnancy loss, and disability leaves
20 weeks of paid parental leave
Commuter reimbursement or paid parking
A monthly communications stipend
Professional development opportunities
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