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Company details

Type of job: Remote
Country: United States
City: San Francisco
Company: Active Ingredients

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Description of the offer

Freelance Senior Designer for CPG Food & Beverage

Active Ingredients, a CPG brand strategy & food marketing agency based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is seeking a freelance Senior Designer to join our team. This is a remote position, 20 – 25 hours/​week; possibility for a future full-time role. US applicants only. To apply, send your resume and why you are a good match for this role to email.

SUMMARY OF POSITION

• In this role, you will lead design initiatives for well-known brands across the CPG Food & Beverage space. Some current and past clients include Marin French Cheese Co., Charlotte’s Web, Chicken of the Sea, Miyoko’s, and Amy’s Kitchen.
• You will work on a range of projects, which may include cross-channel digital marketing campaigns, email and social media content, digital ads, websites & landing pages, presentations and photo and videoshoots.
• For some projects, you will create new & unique visual directions; for others, you will safeguard existing styles.
• You will lead digital projects from start to finish, collaborating with strategists and copywriters as well as developers, photographers, and of course, the project managers for those clients.
• As a lead designer, you will be responsible for design projects of all sizes — large and small — bringing a high level of design thinking to all.

 

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years experience in digital marketing-focused design: digital campaigns, paid & organic social media, website, email marketing
• Strong portfolio of creative work and concepts

 

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, UI/UX Design, or similar discipline preferred

 

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• VISUAL DESIGN: Outstanding graphic design, creative concepting & typography skills required. Ability to establish unique visual directions for campaigns, email and social media AND ability to extend existing design systems. High level command of color, composition & hierarchy. Expertise in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator.
• MOTION GRAPHICS + VIDEO EDITING: Experience with basic motion graphics & video editing in After Effects, Premiere or similar animation and editing software.
• SOCIAL MEDIA: Understand the landscape of design & content on social media, including formats, trends, and content types for primarily Instagram, TikTok & Facebook.
• WEB DESIGN/UI: Intermediate knowledge of design for web. Understanding of web best practices, responsive design, accessibility considerations, asset output. UI/UX strategy and basic HTML and CSS knowledge is a plus.
• CPG & FOOD MARKETING EXPERIENCE: Experience with design and marketing for consumer packaged goods and food & beverage brands.
• Solid understanding of digital and interactive communications, including social media marketing, content strategy and multi-channel campaign execution.
• High level of understanding of technical hand-off of creative assets.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and written communication skills.

 

BONUS SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Personal interest or knowledge around food, recipes, trending ingredients, etc.
• Photography or videography skills (specifically for social media).

 

About Active Ingredients Founded in 2004, Active Ingredients is a full-service digital marketing agency based in Sausalito, California — but our team is distributed, working remotely across the United States. We are a close knit, collaborative team of designers, content creators, technologists, and storytellers that helps brands build strong customer relationships. Our proven track record of creating high impact, results-driven digital campaigns, social media & websites speaks for itself.

We’re experts in our disciplines, but we’re also surfers, musicians, food bloggers, environmentalists, bakers, runners, kale-eaters and dog people. (And cat people.) We do what we do because we love digital, we love making a positive impact on the world, and because we want good brands to be successful.

Our service expertise includes:

• Food & beverage marketing
• Brand strategy
• Positioning & voice
• Campaigns & content strategy
• Social Media Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Website UX, design & development
• Technical development and integration: CMS, CRM, and custom applications
• Analytics & testing

This role is only open to applicants in the United States.

Hourly rate: $75-$100/hour based on experience

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