Entry Level Graphic Designer

If you're a recent grad or just entering the industry and excel at creating high-quality, thoughtful, and compelling design across a wide variety of disciplines, please read on. Our team members are wizards at branding and know how to create appropriately in many styles for a wide variety of international, national and local clients. Qualified candidates must have a working knowledge of all appropriate software programs to create and produce marketing materials for print, web, and digital applications. A working knowledge and ability to create motion graphics is a bonus.

Our creative team members are strong conceptual and strategic thinkers that work hand-in-hand with our client-facing group and interacts seamlessly with cross-functional teams including project and production managers, writers, strategists, and others. You must be a self-starter, excel with constructive criticism and also understand the value of collaboration through all projects, large and small. Our designers are responsible for producing what they create, meaning you must know, or learn how to appropriatly produce your creations for traditional printing, as well as complying to standards for digital and web applications.

Headquartered in Toledo, Communica is a 35+ year-old advertising, marketing and branding firm fusing its deep roots in brand building and design to create sustained growth, with an expert understanding of the buyer’s journey across digital and offline landscapes to drive sales. By bringing together the best thinking and execution across both, Communica delivers highly strategic, creative solutions that help businesses grow. With offices in Toledo, Columbus, Detroit and Charlotte, the company serves a broad range of national and international clients across industries and has been named one of North America’s top business-to-business agencies 10 times.

A sampling of what you'll do:

Design with brands across a variety of industries
Create new, and work within, brand standards
Create literature, printed and on-line
Design web and digital experiences
Work within client input and/or data driven input
Create and build thoughtful, creative presentations of design work
Commit to understanding each of our client's industries and products
Work at, or better, the level of creative product Communica is known to provide

Requirements:

Have a minimum of 2 years of higher education in an accredited creative/design program
Have a portfolio of strong visual executions across a wide variety of mediums
Knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop is a must, other Creative Cloud design applications, or others softwares are a bonus
Are a strong conceptual thinker
Have strong organization and communication skills
Detail oriented
Able to multitask and work effectively under pressure (meet deadlines)
Ability to collaborate in a cross-functional environment
In office work (our Toledo location) required

If this sounds like you, we will like to hear from you.