Digital Designer & Photographer – Charlotte Hornets

Position Overview 

The Digital Designer & Photographer is answerable for capturing and creating compelling visible content material that elevates the Charlotte Hornets throughout social and digital platforms. This position blends high-level graphic design with content material seize, pictures, and visible storytelling to supply participating, platform-specific inventive that tells the story of the Charlotte Hornets, builds relationships with audiences, helps advertising and marketing initiatives, and retains the Hornets on the forefront of social media by well timed, related, and visually compelling content material. Working within the fast-paced surroundings {of professional} sports activities, this place will collaborate throughout departments and journey with the staff as wanted to seize content material. 

Hornets Values 

• We function with ​the best degree of integrity, pushed by ethical requirements that information us in every little thing we do.
• We talk with full candor; brazenly, truthfully, and respectfully with readability.
• We work within the spirit of one staff, dedicated to at least one imaginative and prescient, shared values, and an inclusive tradition that ensures each particular person feels valued and revered.
• We maintain ourselves accountable, and accountable to boost excessive ranges of expectations of ourselves and our staff.
• We compete on the highest ranges and try to be the most effective at every little thing we do
• We act with resilience and thrive within the face of challenges bringing others together with us.

Essential Responsibilities

• Design high-impact, platform-specific graphics for all Hornets social media platforms
• Concept and develop inventive belongings for recreation days, participant options, partnerships, and different overarching organizational initiatives
• Capture content material and create real-time graphics throughout most dwelling video games and roughly half of away video games (both on-site or remotely from Charlotte)
• Identify alternatives to evolve the Hornets’ visible identification by introducing new inventive approaches, rising design traits, and platform-native storytelling strategies.
• Capture high-quality basketball and way of life pictures, together with behind-the-scenes content material at video games, practices, participant appearances, neighborhood occasions, and choose highway journeys.
• Assist with non-basketball pictures together with Community Impact occasions, grassroots advertising and marketing occasions, and extra.
• Edit, set up, and distribute picture galleries in a well timed method to key stakeholders.
• Work with Asset Manager to ascertain and cling to tagging and naming conventions for pictures and graphics.
• Optimize content material for platform-specific codecs and greatest practices.
• Collaborate straight with Social Media, Creative, Marketing, Communications, Community Impact, and Partnership groups to execute digital campaigns.
• React shortly to breaking information and stay occasions with well timed inventive.
• Monitor rising traits throughout social media, design, pictures, and digital storytelling, making use of insights to evolve the staff’s inventive method.
• Help keep model consistency throughout all digital platforms.
• Travel with the staff as assigned to help content material seize.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills, Experience, and Abilities

To carry out the job efficiently, it is best to display the next competencies to carry out the important features of this job.

• Bachelor’s diploma in Graphic Design, Digital Media, Visual Communications, or associated subject.
• 2+ years {of professional} graphic design expertise with a powerful digital and social media portfolio.
• Advanced understanding of format, hierarchy, and coloration principle.
• Demonstrated pictures and picture enhancing expertise.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud together with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Lightroom.
• Strong understanding of social platform specs, traits, and greatest practices.
• Ability to create participating content material in a fast-paced, deadline-driven surroundings.
• Excellent visible storytelling, group, communication, and collaboration abilities.
• Knowledge of sports activities, basketball, and digital fan engagement most popular.
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and journey as required through the season.

Additional Information

This is a full time profit eligible place. HSE is devoted to creating and upholding a welcoming surroundings that celebrates variety.

HSE supplies invaluable advantages and aggressive day off insurance policies that will help you and your loved ones lead wholesome, balanced lives.

We are an equal alternative employer and worth variety at our firm. We don’t discriminate on the premise of race, faith, coloration, nationwide origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital standing, veteran standing, or incapacity standing. All requests for medical or non secular lodging to carry out the said job duties might be thought-about.

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