Senior Graphic Designer

Job Title: Senior Graphic Designer
Location: North America - Foster City, CA
Department: Product Marketing & User Experience
Reports To: Vice President, Product Marketing
Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com or apply online via our parent company, EchoStar Corporation at www.echostar.com/company/careers.aspx (please reference requisition IRC#5862)

Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Echostar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), is a leading digital lifestyle company offering consumer services and products that are a natural extension of today’s digital way-of-life. Sling Media’s product family includes the internationally acclaimed, Emmy award-winning Slingbox that allows consumers to watch and control their living room television shows at any time, from any location, using PCs, Macs, PDAs and smartphones and the revolutionary new SlingCatcher, a universal media player that seamlessly delivers broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content to the TV. Sling Media is also the company behind the video entertainment web site, Sling.com, offering consumers a wide variety of popular TV shows, movies and other entertainment free for viewing online or on the TV using SlingCatcher.

Become an integral part of an award winning, fast-paced marketing department. Sling Media is seeking a multi-talented graphic designer that can easily wear many hats. The senior graphic designer will work closely with the marketing team to lead the creation of advertising/promotional materials, collateral, packaging, web graphics, display art and various other design projects as assigned.

The candidate must be highly creative and possess excellent design skills (web design, typography, and digital illustration), communications and interpersonal skills and be able to adapt to the requirements of a fast-paced, constantly changing job, while maintaining strict attention to detail. Position requires big picture thinking and the ability drive and lead multiple projects.

Qualifications

Requires a Bachelors degree or equivalent 6+ years of related experience using a Creative Suite applications, including: InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator and Acrobat, in addition to Microsoft Office for Mac software, is a MUST
Must be able to set up digital files designed for print correctly for output on a printing press and adhere to printer's specifications
Extensive experience with visual brand identity development
Possess excellent oral and written communication skills and have a professional appearance.
Mastery of layout, type and color.
Possess understanding of material costs and time limits.
Assist all departments in design creation, production and delivery of materials.
Work well under tight deadlines.