Graphic Designer, Team Sports

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Wilson, the company aims to empower individuals to live like athletes, driven by passion, creativity, integrity, teamwork, ambition, and innovation. They foster a diverse and inclusive culture, believing that being an athlete is a way of life. The company is dedicated to evolving the sports world and seeks enthusiastic, ambitious, team-first individuals to contribute to their mission of creating a better world through sport. The Graphic Designer will join the Team Sports creative team, reporting to the Senior Designer. This role involves providing design and creative solutions for marketing campaigns across various sports like basketball, football, volleyball, and soccer, including partnerships with major leagues and athletes. The designer will work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and creative environment, analyzing briefs, collaborating on creative executions, and developing and presenting design solutions for highly visible campaigns.

Requirements

Associate’s Degree in Graphics or a related area
Minimum of 2 years of in-house or agency graphic design experience
Solid portfolio of previous work
Examples of campaign level strategy work and design build out
Excellent working knowledge of Mac computers and adobe software (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma and associated design software)
Basic working knowledge of photography, and lighting
Knowledge in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Basic understanding of print production
Solid attention to detail with strong organization and project management skills
Strong communication skills to effectively present information, respond to questions and work with the cross-functional teams
Proven ability to work under pressure, prioritize and meet multiple deadlines

Nice To Haves

A Bachelor’s Degree is preferred
Motion and video design abilities
Photography and video knowledge
Experiential design experience with brand retail or event activations

Responsibilities

Partners with Senior Designer, marketing teams, and internal designers to develop campaigns and creative executions from concept to production.
Concepts around high-level campaign strategy and builds visual centers for 360 teams and agencies to execute on.
Designs across mediums including digital, social, D2C, marketing sell-in, activations/events, POP, packaging, and other specialty projects as assigned by the Senior Designer and Project Manager.
Works with internal and external photographers on campaign and product photoshoots including shoots with Wilson Advisory Staff.
Collaborates with copywriters on strategy, details, background, layouts and client direction for various projects.
Responsible for the collection and transfer of files for all types of projects with foreign and domestic venders to sample and produce.
Coordinates with Production Staff to define specifications for quoting and bidding of various projects within defined design perimeters of project to ensure quality and proper execution.
Provides marketing with cost estimates on a project-by-project basis regarding outside costs involved.
Responsible for the ongoing implementation of Macintosh computers as a design and production tool to achieve great creative and cost saving company goals. Learns software updates and enhancements.
Works with the project manager to maintain job status and time manage multi projects at one time.
Other duties as assigned.