Senior Graphic Designer - Freelance

Our freelance Senior Graphic Designer will plan and execute graphics across Tennis Channel's various platforms. They will maintain our brand across channels and support the greater team with any additional graphic needs. The candidate must possess excellent communication skills, be highly organized, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

This position is full-time freelance and may require work on nights, weekends and holidays. The ideal candidate will work a hybrid schedule, both in our Santa Monica office and at home.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Create graphics and content for Tennis Channel's various on-air and online platforms
• Create and update daily graphical templates, and support content producers with graphic needs and production workflows.
• Design daily hero images, promotional assets, and social media content.
• Ideate and create new assets that will improve the user experience.
• Coordinate and deliver high quality images that are versioned and specifically tailored for each channel and/or social media platform.
• Create templates and support content producers with graphic needs.
• Build original motion graphics (opens, lower thirds, slates, tags bumpers, etc.)
• Prioritize projects to meet multiple and simultaneous deadlines.
• Maintain high standards while balancing other job-related duties and projects.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience designing at an entertainment/media company or digital agency
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or similar
• Process driven and hyper-focused on organization and attention to detail
• Must be able to react quickly and positively under pressure
• Advanced experience with design software and Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects)
• Skilled at working within Content Management Systems, social, web, and video platforms
• Knowledge of the OTT and Fast Channel video environments, and emerging digital technologies
• Strong storytelling capabilities and ability to conceptualize complex brand development processes
• An interest in sports, tennis, pickleball, trending news, internet culture, and social media
• Ability to work well both independently and in a team environment
• Available to work nights, weekends, and holidays around the tennis calendar

Tennis Channel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

About Tennis Channel

Tennis Channel is the media home to two twenty-four-hour television networks, a subscription streaming service, online magazine and podcasts dedicated to the sport and its unique lifestyle. The tennis-media hub is home to every aspect of the wide-ranging, worldwide tennis community. Tennis Channel is carried nationwide by every one of the top ten pay-TV service providers.

About Sinclair

Make your mark in Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group, a diversified media company dedicated to connecting people with content everywhere! We have consistently led the broadcast industry since our inception, and now Sinclair owns the largest regional sports network business and one of the largest television broadcast portfolios in the country. Also, we have affiliations with all of the major broadcast networks, our own Tennis Channel, and several multicast networks including TBD and Comet. Our content is distributed over-the-air, on multi-video providers, and through our industry-leading digital media platforms. Our success is the direct result of our extraordinary employees and management team who believe in our vision and are dedicated to ensuring a great future for our employees. We are advancing the world of Media and want YOU to join our winning team!

About the Team

The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open-door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let's talk.

The base salary compensation range for this role is $80,000 to $90,000. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates' relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

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