Job Description
Join us and unleash your creativity!
As a Marketing Graphic Designer within the Marketing Communications (MarCom) team, your creativity will be essential in shaping the visual aspects of our marketing materials. You will translate marketing strategies into compelling visuals that capture attention, communicate effectively, and drive engagement across digital and print mediums. Collaborating closely with MarCom, you will be pivotal in upholding a cohesive brand image across various platforms, from social media, websites, brochures, to other campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Create relevant content for our owned-media and earned media, spanning websites, blogs, newsletters, concept documents, social media, internal projects, and offline marketing materials, targeting a diverse global audience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify content needs and ensure the timely delivery of assignments.
- Develop engaging presentations to communicate marketing strategies and campaigns clearly to stakeholders.
- Create and maintain a library of design assets and templates for marketing collateral, including brochures, flyers, email marketing templates, and social media graphics to ensure brand consistency.
- Formulate creative strategies for digital presence in line with our marketing communication goals.
- Address marketing challenges with designs that are both on-brand and effective in achieving business goals.
- Produce environmental designs for events and trade shows, including booth designs, signage, and branded promotional items to enhance brand visibility and engagement.
- Innovate and experiment with new design techniques to continually refresh and uphold our brand’s integrity and consistency.
Challenges and Rewards
- Innovation at the forefront of communication design
- Opportunity to engage in cutting-edge technology
- Engagement with a global audience
- Creative problem-solving
- Broad experience in a startup environment
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in design, branding, communications, journalism, or related fields.
- Approximately 3 years of experience in marketing content or web design-related fields.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (including Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, and more), and figma.
- Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to collaborate with design, engineering, and business teams to transform complex technical/business concepts into clear, concise, and creative content for technical and non-technical audiences proactively.
- Ability to organize and share assets internally in a visually appealing manner. ・DTP skills for on-demand assets.
- Fluent in both Japanese and English.
Preferred Experiences
- Experience with 3D computer graphics and rendering
- Background in the tech industry or startup environment
We are looking for
We seek an upbeat, highly motivated person who can narrate our story from both technical and creative perspectives. The ideal candidate should work effectively in a team and as an individual contributor, embodying an open-minded, transparent approach, and demonstrate an interest in an open-source approach to technology.
About the Company
TIER IV, a deep-tech startup based in Japan, is dedicated to sharing technology for safe intelligent vehicles that will benefit all of society by enabling as many individuals and organizations as possible to overcome the barriers of time and space to collectively bring autonomous vehicles into reality. Founded in December 2015, TIER IV has led the development of Autoware, the world's first open-source software for autonomous driving, and applied Autoware in applications of last-mile driverless mobility and logistics. TIER IV and its global partners continue to evolve Autoware and provide turn-key solutions for commercialization of Autoware-based autonomous vehicles all over the world.
Location
(Immediately after hiring)
- Jacom Building, 1-12-10 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo and the worker's home
(Scope of change)
- Places designated by the company (including places where teleworking is conducted)
Matters concerning measures to prevent passive smoking at places of employment: Smoking is prohibited at all places of employment.
Work Hours
Working hours: Flexible working hours
- Start time: 6:00 a.m.
- Closing time: 10:00 p.m.
- Prescribed working hours: 8 hours/day
- Break time: 1 hour
- Working hours in excess of the scheduled working hours: Yes
Holidays: 2 days off per week (Saturdays and Sundays), national holidays
Summer vacation: 3 days (taken by each employee between July and September)
*Except in the case of employees joining in July/August of the current year
Year-end and New Year holidays: 6 days *Including New Year's Day, according to the company calendar
More than 120 days off per year
Probation Period
- Yes (2 months)
Benefits
- Social insurance is provided (employee pension, health insurance, unemployment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance)
- Commuting allowance (in accordance with company regulations)
- Life support (childcare leave, nursing care leave, shortened working hours, etc.)
- Company defined contribution pension plan