Senior Graphic Designer

The Senior Graphic Designer will sit within MLS Creative Services. The Creative department is an in-house team – part of the Brand & Integrated Marketing Department – that services all internal constituents of the League, including Clubs and Soccer United Marketing, the commercial and operational branch of MLS representing soccer-related properties. The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for conceptualization and design of solutions from ideation to completion. Candidate should have strong communication and management skills and understanding of layout, typography and color theory. Position requires working with both internal and external clients, and there is frequent interaction with other functional departments (e.g. Marketing, Communications, Events, Community Relations). 

• Developing concepts around brand touchpoints (e.g. campaigns, big events)
• Creative lead on a Big Event: bring to life entire platform, including: marks, color schemes and secondary elements, to usage guidelines and applications.
• Provide support across Creative Services general workflow: production, file preparation and other pre-production requirements.
• Design and production of digital assets (e.g.
  
  
  
  tune-in banners, ads) and print graphics, as well as environmental signage.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3–5+ years of experience in Graphic Design and production

Design Skills

• Exposure and experience in art direction
• Knowledge and understanding of design concepts and techniques, as well as brand worlds and systems.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Ability to bring concepts to life from a brief.
• Experience in defining a style and briefing other designers.
• Ability to supervise print work with illustrators and photographers.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Requirements

• Team player.
• Superior organization and attention to detail, with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Strong interpersonal skills: effective communicator, both written and verbal with other departments and stakeholders.
• Schedule flexibility.
• High level of commitment to quality work product and organizational ethics, integrity and compliance.
• Good problem solving and decision making skills
• Ability to manage meetings and presentations.
• Experience in Sports, pop-culture, entertainment environment a plus.
• Knowledge of Spanish Language advantageous
• Knowledge of design in sports (range of applications, technical requirements).
• Knowledge of the sport of Soccer a plus.