Associate Digital Content Designer

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Position location: Deerfield, IL - Hybrid Schedule- Tuesday - Thursday in office/Mondays and Fridays remote

Job Description

Within our in-house Creative Team, the Associate Digital Content Designer plays a key role in creating a wide variety of digital assets across the Fortune Brands Innovations portfolio of 20+ brands. This role supports the development of compelling, on-brand content that spans email campaigns, ecommerce graphics, website assets, and other digital touchpoints that drive engagement and deliver on business objectives.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to help define new ways of bringing our brands to life digitally while adhering to best practices based on test and learn data. You’ll work closely with stakeholders and cross-functional partners to design digital experiences that balance business goals with user needs. This role is a great fit for a motivated designer who’s eager to learn, grow, and make an impact across a diverse brand portfolio.

Day-to-day, you’ll identify project scope, maintain timelines, develop content, participate in creative reviews, and provide status updates. You’ll follow established processes and systems while also contributing ideas that can help improve how our team operates. The ideal candidate will deliver engaging digital experiences while supporting the team’s continued growth and success.

Responsibilities:

• The designer will be exposed to multiple content creation projects and key initiatives within a collaborative in-house creative group. 
• Create compelling, original, consumer-focused digital content that connects key product touch points for clear and compelling brand message dissemination that drives education, engagement, and conversion.
• Translate graphical standards and key initiatives into effective digital creative solutions that are optimized for each channel, audience, and CTA.
• Partner with Product, Channel, Sales, Ecommerce, and Marketing team members to translate marketing needs into unique, brand-driven content.
• Work directly with other designers to provide design support, including versioning or adapting designs, implementing design direction, and working with customers, suppliers, and vendors.  
• Deliver high quality creative content while maintaining consistently high standards throughout the production process. Balance multiple projects with tight deadlines to ensure work is delivered on time. 
• Facilitate reviews both internally and externally while providing consistent updates and meeting varied deadlines.  
• Offer thought leadership to solve business needs through intelligent design solutions. Reach design solutions quickly and efficiently, sometimes with multiple voices and stakeholders. 
• Combine art and technology using a variety of design elements to communicate brand and product details through images and the layout of materials.
• Organize complex and disparate source materials into simpler, integrated, impactful visual designs. 
• Maintain organization of files utilizing Digital Asset Management Systems and an established network filing system.   
• Potential to partner with customers and vendors, including marketing automation, cloud-based systems, and digital marketing experience platforms.
• Facilitate creative content and graphics development with internal and external creative teams and agencies. This includes product photography, CGI, videos, digital content, and others as requested. 
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in digital, web, or graphic design is required.
• Minimum of 2-4 years of design experience required, in-house or agency preferred.
• Must be proficient in MAC operating systems and an expert in Adobe Illustrator, In-Design, Photoshop, and Acrobat—working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite–Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. 
• Experience working in Figma is preferred.
• Knowledge of various web/digital technologies (HTML, CSS), content management systems, and production methods is required.
• Understand the purpose of digital content and how to design assets that will drive engagement.
• Strong design aesthetic and color sense. 
• Strong portfolio showing design skills and process.
• Ability to translate concept ideas to presentable mock-ups.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, rapidly changing environment with tight timelines and multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated; able to work efficiently and independently with limited supervision. Will seek out information and take direction directly from project requestors and stakeholders. Must often project manage one's workload.  
• Outstanding presentation and communication skills with the ability to justify design decisions and direction. Comfortable giving and receiving feedback.
• Ability to work in project management system, as well as experience in a Digital Asset Management system.

A creative portfolio showcasing graphic design experience required for consideration. 

Additional Information

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $45,000 USD - $77,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

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