Graphic Designer – Experienced

Experienced Graphics Designer--Contract

iland Internet Solutions ( http://www.iland.com) is seeking an experienced, creative, tech savvy graphics designer to be part of our Marketing & Communications Team. You will report to the Marketing Director, and work closely with upper level management.

Duties:
• Ability to devote up to 20 hours a week to iland projects
• Create look and feel of email marketing campaigns.
• Ability to create webinar and event invitation layouts.
• Update website graphics and web page layouts.
• Produce a consistent visual image across our web site that coincides with overall branding initiatives.
• Prepare visual components of presentations and proposals.
• Create technical charts and graphs to illustrate iland’s cloud infrastructure solutions and ability to display customer success stories through the use of graphics.
• Format case studies and e-newsletters.
• Uses artistic skills and basic design principles to determine the best visual effect in planning, developing, and designing creative, aesthetic materials that are targeted to a specific audience and are consistent with the image of company brands. Follows all art projects from conception to finished product to ensure the production of the highest quality campaigns possible


Education and Experience:
Must have sufficient education or experience to fulfill the essential functions and responsibilities pertinent to the position including: a minimum of a four year degree, and at least 7 years of work experience.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Proficient in a variety of computer software applications that should include word processing, spread sheets, and graphic design, specifically:

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Acrobat
• And other traditional applications related to desktop publishing

General Skills Required
• Strong conceptual skills, the ability to iterate quickly and easily.
• Understand and apply iland’s brand identity and guidelines.
• Superior interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate actively and proactively with others on the team.
• Good aesthetic sense
• Strong project management skills as they relate to creative design from concept to completion.


Who is iland? (http://www.iland.com)
iland Internet Solutions is privately held and was founded in 1995 in Houston, Texas. iland provides enterprise cloud infrastructure solutions in data centers located in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC and London.

Iland’s solutions include:
• The iland Server cloud, providing a high availability and versatile environment for hosting Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms, enterprise applications (AD, Exchange, SQL, Oracle), and web 2.0 applications.
• the iland Continuity cloud, providing disaster recovery and business continuity via data replication to enterprise storage and standby computing resources
• the iland Workforce cloud, which provides a unified platform for hosted desktops with enterprise servers.

Our success lies in our company culture, the quality and dedication of our employees, and our commitment to providing the best service and solution to our customers. Most of all, we believe in providing an enjoyable work environment to our employees.