Graphic Designer

I'm an online entrepreneur based in New Zealand. My primary business is a small marketing agency serving clients across a range of industries, but with a high percentage of sports related organisations. I also operate a small custom sports apparel brand, sports medals supply company, and various other side projects.

I am currently looking for a fulltime (40 hours per week) graphic designer to support me as I run these businesses.

I'm looking for someone who has at least basic skills in the majority of what I specify in the following job description; but mostly, I'm looking for someone that is excited to learn and develop into this role. The successful candidate should be hardworking, loyal, communicative, take pride in their work and have high levels of integrity. My goal is to find someone who I can work with for years to come. Full support, training and tools will be provided.

The role is varied and will include a range of tasks including graphic design, management of social media management.

Ideally, the successful candidate would perform the following tasks:
- Producing collateral for my businesses and clients such as logos, flyers, posters, and social media post images. These will range from business style through to exciting sports brand style.
- Producing sports uniform designs and preparing designs ready for sending to manufacturer.
- Design of webpages for clients and my own brands.
- Creating weekly and monthly emails from collateral using MailChimp
- Some general virtual assistant work may be required such as online research of potential leads

The successful candidate should possess these key skills:
- Competent communicator in English. Reading and writing English to a decent standard is essential, speaking English would also be very valuable.
- Proficient designer using Illustrator for producing collateral such as logos, flyers, posters, and social media post images.
- Average skills in Photoshop for basic raster image manipulation and running premade actions.
- At least basic knowledge of WordPress would be useful (experience with Elementor page builder preferred but not essential)
- SEO skills and experience will be a distinct advantage
- Willingness to be communicative, constantly learning and hard-working.

This is a full-time role. Pay rate and work hours are negotiable based on expertise and experience. Paid leave and 13th month bonus are included.

When applying for this job, please answer the following questions:
1. Why are you a good fit for this job?
2. When you encountered a problem in your previous job(s), what did you do to overcome it?
3. How would you rate your organization skills from 1-10? Please explain why you feel you are organized as a person?
4. Describe your ideal job. What tasks would you be doing? Would you be working on a single brand all the time (going deep), or have your work spread across many brands (going wide)?
5. Describe your ideal boss. How would you like communication and task allocation to work?
6. If you can choose, what job would you be doing in 5 years from now?

Thank you GREATLY for your time & we look forward to hearing from you.