Why Work at Mercer Advisors?
For nearly 40 years, Mercer Advisors has worked with families to help them amplify and simplify their financial lives. How? By integrating expertise in financial planning, investment management, tax, estate, insurance, and more, all managed by a single team. Today we proudly serve over 31,200 families in more than 90 cities across the U.S. We are an independent, national fiduciary committed to always working in our clients’ best interests.Mercer Advisors offers a distinct work environment that we believe stands out in the financial industry.
Our overall employee base and client-facing team are composed of 50% women, reflecting our commitment to diversity. We attract top talent from across the country, with no formal headquarters and flexible working arrangements, allowing us to assemble the best team possible.Join us and be a part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful impact on the financial lives of families across the country.
Job Summary:
The Graphic Designer is a key contributor to the creative team within marketing. This role is responsible for conceptualizing, developing and designing, and updating corporate marketing materials for customers, prospects and internal employees. As a graphic designer, you will help contribute to the creative vision, designing a diverse range of materials while helping to ensure brand guidelines are followed. An ideal candidate will be collaborative, possess strong communication skills and enjoy working on multiple projects simultaneously.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and create visually appealing layouts for articles, blogs, whitepapers, and sales sheets, and more
- Create and update sales and client presentations as appropriate
- Create digital assets for our organic social media channels and other uses where needed
- Manage design projects from request for creative to finished deliverable
- Adapt design elements to carry out the continuity of the brand(s) throughout all collateral based on supporting strategy and brand guidelines
- Produce work that aligns with brand consistency and current style guide
- Works effectively and efficiently to ensure that end results meet or exceed our brand and quality standards
- Generate original creative concepts and ideas that align with project requirements and brand standards
- Have a keen eye for composition and effectively arrange visual elements, typography, and imagery to create balanced and visually appealing designs
- Able to use established templates to create creative pieces
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in art, graphic design, or related field
- 5+ year of experience with graphic design
- Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. Additional experience with photography and videography is a bonus.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Strong graphic design skills with a thorough understanding of design principles, including branding, layout, typography, and color theory.
- Willing to learn new technologies, e.g. Accent Technology, a digital content management platform
- Thrives in a collaborative team environment for feedback and brainstorming.
- Strong work ethic and sense of accountability.
- Must be able to manage multiple projects and prioritize deliverables
- Experience working in a fast paced, highly regulated, ever-changing industry
- Superior attention to detail, with excellent verbal and written communication and proofreading skills
- Must supply design samples/portfolio
Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday, 8:00AM – 5:00PM. Or as determined by business needs for the company.
Working Conditions:
Professional office environment, daytime hours, working inside, standing, and sitting, will be assigned to a work station.
Benefits:
Mercer Advisors offers a competitive and robust benefit package to our employees. Our benefit programs are focused on meeting all of our employees and their eligible dependents health and welfare needs. We offer the following:
- Company Paid Basic Life & AD&D Insurance
- Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Supplemental Life & AD&D; Short-Term Disability; Accident; Critical Illness; and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Three medical plans offerings including two High Deductible Health Plans and a Traditional Co-Pay medical plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions on a per pay period basis if enrolled in either HDHP medical plan
- Two comprehensive Dental Plans
- Vision Insurance Plan
- Dependent Care Savings Account for child and dependent care
- 14 Company Paid Holidays with a full week off at Thanksgiving
- Generous paid time off program for vacation and sick days
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Family Medical Leave
- Paid Parental Leave (6 weeks)
- Maternity benefits utilizing company paid STD, any supplemental STD, plus Parental Leave (6 weeks) to provide time for recovery, baby bonding, and enjoying your family time
- Adoption Assistance Reimbursement Program
- Company Paid Concierge Services for you and your loved ones for the spectrum of caring needs for your aging parents, young children, life’s challenges and more
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with both Traditional and Roth plans with per pay period match
- Pet Insurance
We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting.
Mercer Advisors provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without regard to age, color, disability, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or any other characteristic protected by law in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Mercer Advisors provides equal employment opportunity in all aspects of employment and employee relations, including recruitment, hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, demotion, termination, layoff, compensation, benefits, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
