Digital Designer, Marketing

NYCEDC is the City’s primary engine for economic development, charged with leveraging the City’s assets to drive growth, create jobs, and improve quality of life. We are an organization dedicated to New York City and its people. We use our expertise to develop, advise, manage, and invest to strengthen businesses and help neighborhoods thrive. We make the City stronger.

NYCEDC is seeking a Digital Designer to work full time in the Marketing Department to provide design leadership for the company’s digital assets, which include NYCEDC.com, micro-sites, e-marketing materials, and the company-wide intranet.

* Work with Creative Director, head of department and marketing teams to establish objectives, strategies and initiatives for digital communications to support the company’s and the City’s needs and goals * Conceptualize and develop original digital designs * Provide user interface enhancements to existing digital assets * Provide production design, including crafting style sheets and design specifications * Work will include, but not be limited to, creation of emails/email templates, advertising campaigns, web graphics and digital data visualizations, and update content management systems * Provide support for social media channel research/strategy, design, and development * Proactively identify interactive best practices that NYCEDC can replicate and/or iterate upon * Consult with, advise and build relationships with internal business units and the digital community at large, to enhance NYCEDC’s leadership in the digital space. * Other duties as assigned

* 6-8 years of experience in digital/web design * Experience writing and editing for online and understanding of online industry standards * Strong interest in multimedia and strategic online content development * Ability to work closely with project managers to create compelling content solutions that support business and marketing goals * Ability to establish content standards & guidelines and provide direction when necessary to ensure consistency in style, tone and quality * Ability to manage multiple projects at one time and meet all deadlines * New York City residence is required within 180 days of hire * Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML/CSS, Dreamweaver, Quark/InDesign * Strong conceptual understanding of technical web requirements * Strong project management skills and expert understanding of web design/development process * Experience with content management systems, e-marketing content delivery tools, and mobile technology