Visual Designer

Western Governors University•Salt Lake, UT

1d•$60,300 - $90,500•Hybrid

About The Position

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The Visual Designer is a media creator who leads, manages, or coordinates multiple projects related to creating engaging digital content for instructional media. This individual ensures projects are implemented successfully and are aligned with course, departmental, and university goals. The Visual Designer enjoys taking on creative challenges, learning, and improving their own skills and institutional methods and practices.

Requirements

Proficiency with Adobe products (After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
Graphic design, animation skills, and concepts.
Self-initiative and self-motivation.
Ability to work independently without supervision and as part of a team.
Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects at a time.
Strong listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills.
Bachelor’s degree in animation, graphic design, digital media, or a relevant field. Or an advanced degree without experience.
3 years of experience working in graphic design, animation, multimedia, or a relevant field.
Successful creative project management experience.
Experience with shooting or editing video.
Experience in motion graphics and/or animation.
Audio or voice-over experience.
Experience with instructional design and learning design.
Online course design experience.

Nice To Haves

5-7 years of experience in graphic design, animation, multimedia, or a relevant field.
Experience in After Effects
Experience in higher education.

Responsibilities

Stays current with trends, innovations, and research in instructional media, particularly graphic design, animation, scripting, and storyboard/wireframe.
Produces graphics, videos, motion graphics, animations, documents, and other multimedia assets for online courses.
Identifies and recommends appropriate programs and vendors.
Manages projects in learning experience.
Works with stakeholders in Program Development to improve learning and design of courses.
Performs other related duties as assigned.