Freelance Production Designer

<p>Kettle is a team of passionate creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.&nbsp;</p> <p>We are looking for freelance Production Designers to join our largest account for a global creative tech organization. In this role, you’ll create pixel-perfect digital design files in partnership with our Visual Designers and Art Directors, and the wider creative and production teams. Our Production Design team is a highly skilled, fast, and flexible group dedicated to design excellence.</p> <p>This role requires the team to be onsite 5 days per week in Sunnyvale, Playa Vista, or Austin.</p> <p><strong>Candidates should have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Advanced knowledge of Figma/Sketch and Adobe Photoshop; bonus if you have experience in building responsive websites or working with HTML syntax</li> <li>Proactive communication skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects with large and variable teams simultaneously</li> <li>The ability to follow design systems and adapt to varying requirements technical specifications</li> <li>A portfolio of strong digital design, with examples of banners, emails, and landing pages at various viewport sizes</li> </ul> <p><strong>We’d like to know that you can:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Clean up design files and convert designs into templates at various viewport sizes based off of an original design</li> <li>Produce a large volume of banners, emails, and landing pages at a consistent pace, with minimal direction and oversight</li> <li>Ensure every pixel is in the correct place, all assets are linked, layers and groups are organized, and files are named correctly</li> <li>Confidently update existing designs not requiring creative input (glyphs, icons, copy, image swaps)</li> <li>Create spec documentation so other teams understand design intent&nbsp;</li> <li>Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, clear innovative UX, beautiful art direction and on-point tone &amp; voice</li> </ul> <p><em>The compensation range for this role is $7,500 - 10,500 monthly. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.</em></p>