Freelance Production Designer at Kettle in Sunnyvale, CA

Kettle is a team of passionate creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. 

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.

This role requires the team to be onsite 5 days per week in Sunnyvale, Playa Vista, or Austin.

Candidates should have:

• Advanced knowledge of Figma/Sketch and Adobe Photoshop; bonus if you have experience in building responsive websites or working with HTML syntax
• Proactive communication skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects with large and variable teams simultaneously
• The ability to follow design systems and adapt to varying requirements technical specifications
• A portfolio of strong digital design, with examples of banners, emails, and landing pages at various viewport sizes

We’d like to know that you can:

• Clean up design files and convert designs into templates at various viewport sizes based off of an original design
• Produce a large volume of banners, emails, and landing pages at a consistent pace, with minimal direction and oversight
• Ensure every pixel is in the correct place, all assets are linked, layers and groups are organized, and files are named correctly
• Confidently update existing designs not requiring creative input (glyphs, icons, copy, image swaps)
• Create spec documentation so other teams understand design intent 
• 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 & voice

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.