Graphic Design Specialist

AGORA Financial provides independent economic commentary through print and online publications, print and e-books, films and international conferences.

As a Graphic Design Specialist for Agora Financial - a leading independent publisher and direct response marketer - you'll focus your designing skills on creating digital messages that compel people to act.

• Conceptualize and create graphic assets for all aspects of a digital promotional package: ads, landing pages, and e-commerce sites. • Create your assets in a strategic and efficient way to test different design/persuasion concepts with a quick turnaround time. • Take ownership over the management of your assets and make them readily accessible for team members. • Proactively meet the graphic needs of promotional packages and aid team members with their projects. • Manage graphic assets in a way that allows team members to locate and use files in an efficient manner.

The ideal candidate will be interested in learning persuasion and user experience principles that stir readers' emotions and immerse them in a narrative. They'll also be driven to design quickly and learn to a/b testing principles to compare two or three iterations of their work based on reader behavior. If you're passionate about storytelling and curious to learn more about a/b testing, web analytics, and goal-driven design, then this position will allow you to hone your graphic design skills on a daily basis. You will excel at the responsibilities listed below if you're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where you're managing multiple projects with different deadlines and are driven to take ownership over these projects and their optimization. • You thrive in a team environment where you're confident asking questions and contributing ideas to meet the goals of a project. • You're excited to test which of your designs are more persuasive and enhance a user's experience. • Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop workspaces are your bread and butter. • You're comfortable in both programs in order to create designs quickly and re-iterate efficiently. • You're eager to start projects and able to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. • You're excited to actively learn how to move your audience by following your gut and challenging design and persuasion principles. • Plus: you're actively interested in using HTML and CSS to implement your web designs.