Digital Artist (Contract)

Amplify; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading educational technology company is seeking a Digital Artist to create engaging narratives that support literacy learning. The role involves collaborating with designers and developers in a contract position, requiring strong illustration skills and expertise in Adobe Creative Suite. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in graphic arts and at least three years of illustration experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in illustration.
• Ability to draw by hand.
• Ability to follow style guides and adapt to multiple illustration styles.

Responsibilities

• Create age appropriate narrative art for literacy curriculum.
• Collaborate closely with art director to produce illustrations.
• Contribute to asset production and graphic design workflows.

Skills

Illustration

Adobe Creative Suite

Communication skills

Visual design

Education

Bachelor's degree in graphic arts or related field

Tools

Figma

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

AfterEffects

InDesign

Job description

Job Description Summary

A digital artist contract role at Amplify. Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, and we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.

Role Overview

Digital Artists at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom. As a member of Amplify's design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify's Art Content.

This is a contract role.

Responsibilities

• Create age appropriate narrative art that brings the literacy curriculum to life through illustrated characters and storytelling
• Collaborate closely with the art director or design lead to gather requirements for art specs, and produce illustrations from sketch to final vector art
• Collaborate with interaction developers, user experience designers
• Follow established visual style guidelines, and be able to work across a variety of styles
• Articulate concepts and creative solutions visually and verbally
• Develop and refine deliverables by obtaining feedback from stakeholders and designers
• Contribute to at least 3 of the following workflows, based on qualifications: asset production in Figma/Adobe suite, animation in AfterEffects, print layout design in InDesign, graphic design in Figma/Illustrator, iconography, photo research, photo retouching in Photoshop

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in graphic arts, design, illustration, communications, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in illustration
• Ability to draw by hand
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, AfterEffects and InDesign
• Experience with creating rapid sketches and thumbnails for review and feedback
• Experience with creating rich, high-fidelity vector art illustrations
• Ability to follow style guides, and adapt to multiple illustration styles
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Superb visual and conceptual skills to solve problems and create novel solutions

Additional Qualifications

• At least 3 of the following: working in Figma, photo retouching and image creation in Photoshop, animation or motion graphics in AfterEffects, typography/graphic design/print layout design/print production in InDesign, designing icons in Illustrator and/or Figma, photo research

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with storyboarding or sequential storytelling
• Experience with animation or motion graphics
• Experience with visual design in education technology or a related field
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of education
• Experience with working with mobile game assets
• Experience with Design Systems
• Experience with accessibility (A11Y) in visual content

Compensation

The hourly rate range for this role is $40 - $45.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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