designer

Graphic Designer

Since you are on our website you can review various information about our company. However, here are a few key points:

• Fisher Design is a Cincinnati based company with a 49 year history providing brand identity and package design solutions for top of mind brands.  Some of our past and present clients include Wal-Mart, Colgate, Dial, Butterball, Miracle-Gro, Ajax, Black & Decker, Bayer Corporation, Del Monte, GE, Breyers, Hasbro, Kraft Foods, Proctor & Gamble, Ralston Purina, Sony, Campbell’s Soup, Sara Lee, Clorox, Home Depot, Kroger, Tyson Foods, and others. Our average client has been with us for ten years or longer.
  
  

• Consumers have paid over $100 Billion on brands that we have handled.  Most households in America today have at least one brand or package that Fisher Design was involved with on strategy, design, and the implementation. 
  
  
• We are proud that our average client has been with us for ten years or longer.
   
• What’s it like to work here? Well, our employees are happy and they like their fellow workers – plus we all enjoy creating an environment where people love coming to work. Our teams are passionate about the work we do and we work together to provide outstanding creative results that we are proud of everyday.

Here are some points for you to consider relative to this position.

• Design talent, intelligence, relationship skills, and work ethic are more important than experience or education to our team. The position requires someone with 5 solid years in brand package design, but pure design skill, intelligence, and a great attitude are enough to be considered.
  
  

• In short, we are looking for a truly talented person that has a great attitude as well as someone that can interact with our household name clients on a daily basis. Additionally, being able to interact with fellow employees to get the job done is of huge importance as well.  Your primary focus will be to create new design concepts and brand package systems for our clients. That could include new brands as well as rebranding well known existing products.
  
  

• You will partner with Account Executives and the Production Managers on a range of engaging projects. This will involve ensuring that we get the design work done right the first time as our reputation will always be at stake.
   

• All of our designers use state of the art Macintosh computers.
  
  If you like the concept of being part of a team, this would be an ideal position for you, as effective teamwork is the key to our success with our clients.

Here are some other areas where your skill sets will help you compete against the other candidates for this position.
 

• Your level of understanding of strategic design and branding principles.
• Your understanding of print processes such as gravure, flexography, and offset lithography.
  
  

• Your level of knowledge of basic digital artwork development and pre-press fundamentals to help effectively transition work to our production staff.
  
  
• Your ability to communicate your ideas and solutions clearly to your team and the client.

1. What is your greatest strength?
2. What is your greatest weakness?
3. What do you feel is your greatest professional achievement (whether or not someone else has acknowledged it)?
4. What do you feel is your greatest professional failure (whether or not someone else has acknowledged it)?’
5. If you had a magic wand what would you do for a living assuming that the compensation was what you wanted?
6. What did you like most about your favorite manager?
7. What did you like least about your least favorite manager?
8. What questions would you like to ask about this position?
9. What questions would you like to ask about this company?
10. What questions would you like to ask about your future supervisor?

We believe that everything is relative, so depending on your strengths in some areas if you lack the skills in another area, but can learn them fairly quickly, we will consider that in the interview process.  Keep in mind, our goal is to build long term relationships with our team members.
 
While we might be flexible on some aspects of the work, we want a talented person that can enhance efforts to maintain the long and successful relationships we have had with our clients.
 
The more you know how to do great design and to handle yourself well in various situations, the more likely we are to have a commonality of interests.
 
If you choose to apply for this position we will respond promptly to the receipt of your resume and the answers to the ten questions and samples of your work.
 
My name is Summer Patterson and I am the HR Director at Fisher Design.
 
I will be screening the candidates in collaboration with the Creative Director to narrow the list of people we would like to meet and interview.
 
If you choose to apply then follow the directions above instead of calling me on the phone – we are very good at responding promptly even if it is to tell you that we do not think there is match.
 
Good luck in your job search and we hope that you can become part of our team!