Digital Artist, Math Suite (Contract)

Amplify

1d•Remote

About The Position

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. We have become a leader in K–12 literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent high-quality instructional system. A pioneer in education since 2000, Amplify has developed deep relationships in states and districts by partnering with educators to drive implementation quality and improved outcomes. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents. For more information, visit Amplify.com. Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, 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. 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.

Requirements

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
At least 3 areas of expertise in the following must apply: Expertise with working in Figma
Expertise with photo retouching and image creation in Photoshop
Expertise with animation or motion graphics in AfterEffects
Expertise with typography, graphic design, print layout design and print production in InDesign
Ability to design icons in Illustrator and/or Figma
Ability to do photo research

Nice To Haves

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 A11Y in visual content

Responsibilities

Create age appropriate narrative and curriculum art that brings the math lessons to life through illustrated characters and storytelling, in adherence to existing style guidelines.
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