Senior Visual Marketing Designer

Job Posting End Date: July 18

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life's moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments

• Delivers high level of design creativity based on concepts that exceed objectives and reflect usable ideas, which indicate strong originality and appropriate risk-taking
• Acts as thought leader on design with writing team, broader marketing team and business partners to assist in the concepting and production of marketing assets across media and channels
• Successfully works on a full range of advertising, sales promotion, digital marketing, event marketing and other projects ranging in size and complexity
• Designs for digital and print, including wireframes, UI design, flyers and brochures, print and digital ads, presentations, emails, infographics and demos
• Provides guidance to other departmental teams including web, UX, product, sales and communications to ensure that visuals are meeting established brand standards
• Mentors visual design staff members on job parameters and expectations
• Develops, maintains, and enforces brand design templates, design systems, and style guidelines and ensure that these toolkits are accessible to other design staff members
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Create and execute graphic design solutions that communicate our marketing messages clearly and effectively
• Create and package digital files for print or digital production
• Collaborate with staff designers to ensure projects and templates are consistent with current branding guidelines.
• Manage and prioritize a high volume workload with little supervision.
• Partners with Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing, business partners and subject matter experts to support the creation of live action productions from start to finish.
• Leads medium to large live action productions with guidance from area management and senior business leaders.

• College degree in Graphic Design, Communications, or related field
• A minimum of 5 years full-time agency or corporate professional experience preferred
• Strong design sense evidenced by proven portfolio examples
• Ability to leverage in-depth knowledge of production processes including printing, photography, illustration, and reproduction qualities of paper
• Expert proficiency in all design related software, including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, XD (or similar program), and PowerPoint
• Strong time management skills and the ability to work on multiple projects, shifting focus based on priority and timeline
• Experience in directing all aspects of design from concept through completion
• Ability to participate in meetings and kick-offs and advocate for use of visual design best practices
• Capable of interacting effectively with all levels of clients/business partners and interpreting marketing plans and translating them into strong creative concepts
• A strong, in-depth working knowledge of all Unum's operating lines of business and their marketing strategies and customer profiles
• Capable of establishing logical design systems that allow for theme and variation, enabling the brand(s) to stay true to their identities while being flexible in presence and tone