Graphic Designer

BuildWitt is on a mission:

BuildWitt exists to better the Dirt World (those who build and maintain society's essential infrastructure) by helping companies attract, train, and retain great people.

We do this through our ecosystem of offerings, which includes:

• BuildWitt Creative: a full-service branding, marketing, web, and media agency that helps Dirt World companies grow their business with customized creative deliverables.
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• BuildWitt Training: a custom-built software product with more than 1,000+ industry-specific training videos to help level up the next generation of Dirt World professionals.
• BuildWitt Connect: a platform that empowers leaders with the personalized expertise, resources, and peer network needed to build strong, financially secure businesses.
• Dirt Word Summit: an annual 1,200+ person event, hosted by BuildWitt, which brings our industry leaders together to network and share ideas.

As a team, we’re a close-knit, high-performing group that holds ourselves to a high standard and lives by our values. We take our mission and work seriously but man, do we know how to have fun. Our culture is rooted in being real people with a common goal—supporting one another and embracing personal/professional growth without competition.

Job Overview:

As a Graphic Designer, you'll be responsible for designing impactful visual identities and creative campaigns to elevate our clients' brands and attract their target audience. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with the creative team to ideate, develop, and execute creative solutions that allow BuildWitt and our clients to solve the Dirt World's biggest problems. 

That process starts with you and 2-3 other team members leading and facilitating in-person brand or employer-brand workshops with clients and key stakeholders. Traveling overnight to locations across the U.S., you will dive deep into understanding our client companies’ cultures and the specific challenges they face. With insights gained during the workshop, and collaboration with the creative team, you'll be responsible for developing a variety of creative assets and presenting these to the client throughout the process. 

Under the guidance of our Creative Director, you'll collaborate closely with our team of art directors, copywriters, web designers, photographers, videographers, and project managers to produce deliverables that serve our clients’ goals. Creative deliverables you're responsible for include, but aren't limited to: 

• Visual Brand Identity
  • Mood Boards
  • Logos
  • Type Systems
  • Color Palettes 
  • Ancillary Graphics
• Brand Guidelines
• Creative Campaigns (Visual Execution)
  • Employer Branding / Recruiting
  • Concept Mockups
  • Final Deliverables 
• Digital Graphics
  • Icons
  • Illustrations
  • Social Media
  • Paid Ads
• Print Deliverables
  • Stationery 
  • Brochures
  • RFPs (Request For Proposal)
  • Event Banners
  • OOH

Above all, you'll bring exceptional design skills to every aspect of your work, turning complex ideas into powerful visuals that connect with target audiences. Your attention to detail is unmatched, and you communicate effectively to manage client interactions while working collaboratively to keep projects moving toward the highest-quality end results.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Visual brand development + execution
• Ensure visual brand consistency across creative deliverables
• Facilitate brand and employer-brand workshops across the country
• Develop and own visual brand standards across our creative team 
• Present, explain, and defend creative work to clients
• Ensure highest quality in final deliverables
• Educate yourself on the Dirt World in order to connect with clients and understand the target audiences

Hard Skills:

• Significant experience designing brand systems for clients of all sizes
• Expert-level proficiency with the Adobe design suite—Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
• Familiarity with Figma, Google Productivity Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, monday.com (or similar PM software), Slack
• Excellent visual eye and understanding of design best practices, color theory, and typography
• Strong ideation and concepting skills
• Experience and professional maturity to marry best practices with client’s wants and needs
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, responding to internal messages/slack and emails quickly
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects at once
• Ability to reprioritize quickly among tight deadlines and frequently shifting priorities

Soft Skills:

• You have fun at work. You're excited to build trust and relationships with the people on and adjacent to your team
• You understand and appreciate that being a part of an early-stage company means hard work and wearing multiple hats when needed
• You're capable of offering, accepting, and acting upon feedback and criticism with empathy
• You take a strong sense of personal accountability and responsibility for advancing our clients’ brands and solving their problems
• You're highly disciplined and self-motivated, capable of managing multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines without sacrificing quality
• You have strong communication and presentation skills, able to defend design decisions and collaborate effectively across internal teams and external stakeholders
• Ability to be highly effective in a remote company environment where internal meetings are frequent but necessary
• A genuine passion for design, with a continuous desire to stay ahead of the latest trends and technologies

Benefits:

• Dirty boots—see really cool massive earth-work, demolition, mining, and construction projects across the country
• Remote work and flexible hours
• Competitive base salary 
• Multiple healthcare options
• Affordable dental and vision plans
• Open PTO
• 401K Match, with vesting the quarter following hire date

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each key responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are proud to offer equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, disability, or veteran status.