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Ad & Marketing Graphic Designer

We’re Patch.com, a start-up that’s radically reinventing community journalism. We launched in February, currently operate 12 community news and information sites, and are quickly expanding to many more towns! Less than a year in operation, we’ve already won acclaim in the industry and coverage in The New York Times, Forbes, Newsweek, Bloomberg, NPR's "Talk of the Nation", "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer", and numerous industry blogs and Web sites. In June we were acquired by AOL Ventures.


Working in our open and vibrant SoHo office, your responsibilities will include:
• Design crisp, attractive ad banner creative to specifications from advertisers and ad sales reps in the field.
• Produce print and online marking materials and sales collateral. You’ll play an active role in brainstorming with business leads on how to lay out marketing information in the manner best suited to the communication medium and business application at hand
• Provide your perspective to help improve our constantly evolving ad operations processes.

You must be:
• Great at organizing information concisely and attractively in limited spaces (think 300x100-px image)
• Patient in working to satisfy sometimes vague and frequently changing ad requirements from advertisers
• Able to take direction and work independently, creatively, and quickly
• Comfortable with rapid-fire communication over email
• Good at multi-tasking and working with several people at once
• Disciplined and attentive to detail
• Have an eye for ad design and an ability to think like a local business and also like a site user

Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, fine arts, or related field

Professional experience:
• 1-4 years, preferably in a mix of online and print media. Advertising background desirable.

Skills:
• Complete knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience designing for the Web
• Strong typography skills