Interactive and Design Partner
- Location: Edmonton, AB
- Department: Marketing
About Us: At Rohit, also more formally known as Rohit Group, we have a singular vision: Expand across North America, enriching the communities that we serve. We will achieve this by taking a bold and uncompromising approach. Since our market introduction back in 1986 by the Gupta family, we have expanded across Canada to become a vertically integrated enterprise with over $1B in assets under management. Moreover, we have established ourselves within multiple Canadian markets from east to west, creating value through our real estate subsidiaries, including Rohit Communities, Rohit Homes, Rohit Rental Living, Rohit Commercial, and Rohit Health. Don’t just work a job, make your mark. Rohitians have three traits in common – fit, grit, and talent. We seek candidates who face challenges head-on and are eager to tackle some of the industry’s most exciting projects while bravely embracing work that is challenging, dynamic, and fulfilling, responsibly placing community at the heart of everything that we do. In short, by being bold, we go further. Our Corporate Values
- We encourage boldness Risk-taking and confidence to make decisions are the underpinning of our success.
- We operate with ingenuity: We conduct business with an entrepreneurial spirit. Drive, perseverance and grit is how we roll.
- We never lose our community focus: A community- first approach leads to meaningful change, big and small. We leave our mark through our actions.
- We harness the strength of our people: Empowering employees to reach their full potential because we know we are stronger as a collective sum of our parts.
- Portfolio submission of past creative work required
- Completed certificate or diploma in creative and/or graphic design.
- 5+ years of experience leading graphic design delivery or function for an organization, with full project delivery from concept to execution across multiple stakeholders.
- Experience in brand development and brand style guide management
- Experience working with creatives at external ad agencies across multiple mediums (ex: video, interactive, copywriting, photographers)
- Ability and experience in managing budgets is considered an asset.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Ability to prioritize tasks.
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Creative Cloud or related software.
- Desire for continuing education and personal development.
- Web applications across the corporation are well planned, developed, implemented, and managed.
- Brands across the corporation are well managed and implemented.
- The design, production, and implementation workflows are established and well managed, balancing the mix that creative is produced in-house versus outsourced.
- The quality of creative produced aligns with business requirements, market objectives and brand standards.
- Projects assigned to the portfolio are delivered on time, within scope, according to budget, in alignment with change management needs, and with effective closure/hand-off.
- Web Development
- Supporting front-end web development services, such as wireframe creation, designing user experiences and interfaces, configuring website elements, and applying brand styling/standards (using HTML, JavaScript and CSS).
- Providing input to guide back-end web development, such as supporting the planning of how core logic is structured, networks are configured, APIs are implemented, and databases are built/integrated.
- Facilitating and guiding stakeholders through current state assessments, gap analysis and use case development for websites and mobile applications.
- Supporting roadmap development for website platforms working with divisions and associated stakeholders.
- Securing/managing the inventory of URLs/domain names across divisions and corporate entities.
- Co-managing vendor agreements and relationships specific to website development and support.
- Brand Management
- Building and managing a Rohit Brand repository to house and keep inventory of creative across all brands.
- Managing brand creative standards across all divisions and corporate entities, including how they are applied as well as evolve over time.
- Controlling the upkeep (refinements and additions) to each of the brand style guides.
- Monitoring and reporting on public use and mention of the Rohit brand names, this includes across news media and customer reviews, flagging issues for attention/action as needed.
- Contributing, guiding, and overseeing delivery of brand activation plans across divisions.
- Providing agencies/vendors with brand direction.
- Monitoring and reporting on trends and innovations (across industries) in terms of how brands are being activated, delivered, and building relevance.
- Creative Services
- Co-developing a resource strategy, to establish corporate procedures/guidelines on what to produce in-house versus having outsourced.
- Introducing an end-to-end productivity workflow pipeline to manage design, approval, production, and implementation stages of creative projects.
- Co-approving proofs and creative deliverables produced by agencies/vendors for divisions and corporate entities.
- Providing/supplementing graphic design services across divisions and corporate entities, including managing project schedules, preparing/presenting rough drafts, guiding copy development/refinement, designing collateral, ensuring quality assurance across various media, leading stakeholder review/feedback processes, trafficking creative and collaborating with agencies/vendors as required.
- Collaborating with Marketing Managers and Executives across divisions or at the corporate level to deliver creative presentations.
- Special Projects
- Leading the planning and delivery of special projects, as well as participating in project teams and corporate committees as a subject matter expert.
- Other duties as needed