Digital Designer

• Motion graphics
• Illustration
• UX/UI design
• Social media-focused video and photography
• Branding

Job Description

• Campaign art direction
• Static and animated social media ad design
• Display ad design
• Custom illustration using tools like Procreate
• General motion graphics
• Photography and image editing
• Videography for social media

25% Account Executive Duties, handling client relations for projects you work on such as smaller website projects (like SquareSpace and Wix accounts) or branding.

5% Always optimizing, to improve the department.

• Work closely with members of our team to craft engaging materials for digital campaigns, using tools like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, AfterEffects, and Google Web Designer.
• Deliver consistently branded materials that support Online Optimism and our clients’ goals.
• Create engaging motion graphics using Adobe AfterEffects.
• Help maintain our design assets.
• Collaborate with the other members of the Design team, giving and accepting feedback, to improve the department’s overall performance.

• Work directly with clients, acting in an account executive role for 1–2 branding or interactive projects. These projects may include:
• Developing brand identities, including logos, iconography, and brand standards for small to medium-sized clients.
• Creating comprehensive website wireframes using Adobe XD, that can be reviewed by our clients and used for development.
• Developing websites for small to medium-sized clients using Squarespace or visual builders.

• Suggest ideas, explore new tools, and take initiative to increase Online Optimism’s design and development work.

• $40,000 as a base annual salary, which is $769.23 paid weekly.
• Technology stipend of $960 / year (also paid weekly.)
• SIMPLE IRA plan with 3% matching. If you put in 3%, this is an additional $1,200 / year.

Insurance and Wellness

• Health insurance for you and any dependents at three different levels so you can choose what’s perfect for you. Online Optimism covers 50% (between $1,859.16 / year in our lowest plan of 1 person to $8,182.44 for a family plan)
• Dental insurance for you and any dependents – we cover 50%, so it can be worth anywhere from $208.32 / year (one person, no dependents) to $626.52 at the highest plan.
• Vision Insurance: We cover 100% (we look at a lot of screens, y’all) which is $75.12 at the lowest (one person, no dependents) to $221.64 at the highest (family plan). Our plan (at most stores) covers new glasses & frames up to $200 / year.
• Short term disability for 16 weeks
• Life Insurance ($10,000 policy)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program) through ComPsych. While this offers a few benefits, the most common one is its allowance of up to three therapy sessions per life event.
• All of your insurance begins on the 1st of the month following your first day of employment.

Raises & Additional Compensation

• All employees receive raises at least annually, and our high-performers have earned raises two to three times a year in the past.
• All employees receive holiday bonuses.

PTO & Holidays

• While financial compensation and insurance is important, we believe that your time spent outside of work is often just as important to maintaining a health balance. This position will receive:
• 15 days of PTO annually. In 2022, you’ll receive 7 days due to your late start in the year, rolled out gradually. In 2023 and each year following, you receive the 15 days on January 1st.
• Financial compensation for any unused PTO at the end of the year, valued at 1/500th your annual salary.
• Summer Fridays, which are Friday half days throughout June to August. You’ll receive 1 Summer Friday in 2022, and 4 each of the following years.
• Half day for your birthday (available anytime your birthday week).
• Unlimited sick time for physical or mental wellbeing. This includes unlimited time for things including bereavement, mental health days, miscarriages, or any reason our Optimists believe they won’t be working at 100%.
• If for some reason a medical procedure isn’t available near you, we will also fly you to our DC offices and pay for a night’s hotel stay, no questions asked – you can read more about our out-of-state medical leave policy here, rolled out in June, 2022.
• 14 holidays per year, including: New Year’s Day, Mardi Gras (+ the previous Monday and Friday)*, Good Friday*, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, *Christmas Eve, *Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve.

An Optimistic Work Environment

• We work hard to create a supportive, optimistic environment. This includes:
• Our office hours are 9-5, Monday – Friday. You will be able to have flexible work hours including 8-4, and 10 – 6.
• We have an in-place policy that we don’t require employees to check their email while outside the office. We believe strongly in maintaining a work/life balance.
• Our “You Do You” remote work rule means that you get to choose whether you come into our beautiful offices, or work from home each day. Please keep in mind that the Creative Designer will have 1-5 days / month that we do expect them to come in to produce content in our creative studio (unless you happen to have a giant creative studio full of equipment at home, and don’t mind Optimists dropping off their barketers to participate in photoshoots)
• We also like to think we have a pretty great office culture. We have the usual fun stuff, and then go far above and beyond what you might be expecting:
• Casual dress code
• Endless office snacks, and free Friday lunches for those in an office.
• Top of the line computers to work on.
• We offer free web hosting to any Optimist.
• We have a 200% employee donation match program called Donate, Elevate.
• We provide quarterly volunteer opportunities, and allow staff paid time out of their day for opportunities of their own.
• Gifts for everyone on a new client account, or website launch.
• We cover the cost of any networking groups or events related to your career or skills that you want to work on.
• We enjoy an annual retreat in one of our three cities. For 2022, we’ll be spending December 7th – 9th in Washington, DC. And yes, of course, there are the famed OOies at the retreat, where those worthy receive a trophy worthy of their accomplishments.
• After your first 12 months of employment, you’re eligible for paid maternity or parental (adoptive) leave every twelve months, rolling. Paid is 100% your base salary. It is sixteen weeks paid maternity leave, and eight weeks of paid leave for adoptions/paternity.
• In your third year of employment, we’ll send you to a conference related to your field of study within the U.S., all expenses paid.
• After 5 years of employment at Online Optimism, we extend your PTO from 15 days to 20.
• We have no non-compete. You should only be at Online Optimism if you believe it’s the best opportunity for your career at this time.
• Lastly, we’re very confident that everyone who receives one of our offers is going to be a great fit at Online Optimism. If, however, you don’t think it is after 60 days, no problem, we’ll offer you a buyout package. This means that we’ll offboard you over the next week (with insurance til the end of the current month), pay you a $2,000 severance package (after receiving our equipment back,) and wish you the best in your career somewhere else.