Emsisoft is currently seeking new employees to expand its marketing team.
Job description:
Develop and maintain the company brand for our website. Design layouts for our websites. Implement illustrations for our blog. Work out the visual design of marketing materials.
This is a part time remote position and you will be working from home, 10-20h/week.
Key areas of responsibility:
*** Visual Identity**
Being in an underdog role in the cybersecurity industry, it's very important for us to establish a clear design language that makes the company easily recognizable. The existing design guidelines should be used as a base and further refined on the long run. The role of the designer is to make sure the corporate design is well implemented in all areas of the company from websites to marketing materials. The designer also acts as brand guardian to immediately stop any violations of the design guidelines, internally and externally (partners, resellers, affiliates).
*** Website**
As a dotcom company the website is one of the main assets of the marketing team. It should do its job, in particular sell the software and provide easy access to information for new and existing customers. Individual website areas as well as the overall layout will need to be refreshed in regular intervals of about two years. The designer's job is to create drafts and final designs that will be implemented by the webmaster.
*** Marketing Materials**
Everyday design-craft for various uses, in particular illustrations for our blog posts, online ads, promotional banners, wallpapers, flyers, brochures, data sheets, screenshots, etc. Work includes coordination with translators to deliver work pieces in multiple languages.
Requirements:
The graphics designer role is suitable to someone with extensive experience in web- and graphics-design. The person should be keen on staying up-to-date with the latest design developments and trends.
Being used to multi-dimensional thinking, ie. how responsive websites are displayed on different devices and screen resolutions, is a big advantage.
A strong sense for marketing, how messages are best illustrated and supported by graphics, is a core requirement. Including the ability to quickly switch roles to impersonate our customers.
Key skills:
- Team player.
- Ready to implement ideas independently.
- Self motivated.
- Strong team communication skills.
- Experience with deadlines.
- Expert with common graphics utilities: Photoshop/Illustrator, wireframing tools.
- Excellent written English communication skills.
What we can offer:
We are offering long term and secure full time employment as an independent contractor, working in an interesting field as part of a growing multi-cultural company. You will have flexible work hours providing the short daily meetings are covered. Your job will be completely location independent, assuming you have access to a reasonably fast and stable internet connection.
Interested?
Great! Please send an application including the following information:
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A short resume covering your previous 5 years of employment along with short descriptions of the main tasks you were responsible for.
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Please don't hesitate to include references to your previous work.
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Your salary expectations.
We are looking forward to your applications!
ABOUT EMSISOFT
We are committed to providing home users and businesses with the best malware protection possible.
We are one of the smallest companies amongst the international competitors of the antivirus industry and mainly set ourselves apart from others through our premium products and first-class customer support.
Our company's organization has been entirely virtual since its foundation in 2003. Our 40 employees are located all over the world, but work together as if they were in the same building. Every year, more than one million users download our products.
