Digital Artist (Contract) Job at Amplify in New York

Job Description Summary

A digital artist contract role at Amplify. Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, and we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.

Role Overview

Digital Artists at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom. As a member of Amplify's design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify's Art Content.

This is a contract role.

Responsibilities

• Create age appropriate narrative art that brings the literacy curriculum to life through illustrated characters and storytelling
• Collaborate closely with the art director or design lead to gather requirements for art specs, and produce illustrations from sketch to final vector art
• Collaborate with interaction developers, user experience designers
• Follow established visual style guidelines, and be able to work across a variety of styles
• Articulate concepts and creative solutions visually and verbally
• Develop and refine deliverables by obtaining feedback from stakeholders and designers
• Contribute to at least 3 of the following workflows, based on qualifications : asset production in Figma / Adobe suite, animation in AfterEffects, print layout design in InDesign, graphic design in Figma / Illustrator, iconography, photo research, photo retouching in Photoshop

Required Qualifications

Additional Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Compensation

The hourly rate range for this role is $40 - $45.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email hiringaccommodations@amplify.com.

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