Digital Media Designer

Digital Media Designer

VIKING Car Care, a leading provider of premium automotive appearance accessories, is seeking a creative, versatile, and forward-thinking Digital Media Designer to develop compelling visual content across social media, Amazon, e-commerce, digital advertising, and brand channels. This role combines strong graphic design fundamentals with photo editing, animation, stop-motion, creative concepting, and AI-assisted creative production to bring ideas to life quickly and effectively.

This individual should be comfortable incorporating generative AI and emerging creative technologies into the creative process to accelerate ideation, explore concepts, generate and enhance imagery, develop storyboards, create variations, and improve production efficiency. AI should complement—not replace—strong creative judgment, design fundamentals, and attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

Design engaging, attention-grabbing assets for platforms including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, and emerging digital channels while maintaining a consistent brand identity.Incorporate AI-powered creative tools into concept development and production workflows, including image generation, image editing, visual exploration, storyboarding, creative variations, and content development.Write and refine effective prompts for generative AI tools, using creative direction and design expertise to guide outputs toward specific brand and campaign objectives.Transform AI-generated concepts and assets into polished, brand-ready creative through compositing, retouching, typography, layout, color correction, and other traditional design techniques.Execute photo retouching, color correction, compositing, background removal, image enhancement, and image manipulation for product, lifestyle, promotional, and digital marketing applications.Translate marketing objectives and creative briefs into visually compelling concepts and executions.Participate in brainstorming sessions and proactively contribute new creative ideas, visual approaches, content opportunities, and emerging creative techniques.Rapidly develop multiple creative concepts and variations for testing, optimization, and different audiences or digital platforms.Maintain organized creative files, AI-generated assets, templates, prompts, source files, and brand resources.Stay current on design trends, social media creative trends, animation techniques, digital advertising, generative AI, and emerging creative technologies, proactively identifying opportunities to improve the team's creative capabilities and workflows.Required Qualifications

Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in digital design, creative concepting, photo editing, animation and visual storytelling.Strong understanding of typography, composition, color, hierarchy, branding, and visual storytelling.Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and other relevant applications.Experience using generative AI creative tools and AI-assisted workflows for visual ideation, image creation, editing, or content production.Ability to combine AI-generated content with traditional design and production techniques to create polished, professional, brand-appropriate creative.Ability to develop original creative concepts rather than simply execute predetermined designs.Strong visual judgment with the ability to recognize when AI-generated content requires refinement, correction, or should not be used.Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Digital Media, Advertising, or a related field—or equivalent professional experience.1-3 years of hands-on experience with generative AI platforms and emerging creative technologies, such as Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway, or similar image, video, and creative-generation tools.Experience with product photography and/or studio photography.Experience creating performance-oriented digital and social creative, including multiple concepts and variations for testing.Core Competencies

Creative Concepting — Generates original ideas and translates marketing objectives into compelling visual concepts and campaign executions.AI-Assisted Creativity — Uses generative AI and emerging creative technologies as part of the creative process to accelerate ideation, experimentation, visualization, and production while applying strong human creative judgment.Photo Editing & Retouching — Produces polished, professional imagery through advanced editing, compositing, image manipulation, and enhancement.Motion & Animation — Creates engaging motion graphics, animation, and stop-motion content designed for today's digital platforms.Creative Experimentation — Explores new tools, technologies, visual styles, and production methods while determining how they can meaningfully improve creative output.Brand Consistency — Maintains a cohesive visual identity while finding fresh ways to evolve creative execution across channels.Collaboration — Works effectively with cross-functional teams and responds constructively to creative feedback.Execution & Organization — Moves efficiently from concept through final production while managing multiple priorities, deadlines, assets, and creative workflows.

About VIKING Car Care

VIKING® Car Care is a leading provider of premium automotive appearance accessories designed for DIY enthusiasts and detailing professionals. With more than 50 years of innovation and numerous patented technologies, VIKING continues to develop high-performance products across categories including microfiber, washing, drying, detailing, and specialty cleaning accessories. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, VIKING is committed to making car care easier through thoughtfully designed products, innovative solutions, and a customer-first approach.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package including 401(K) with employer match, medical, vision, dental, life, LTD, FSA, and paid time off. Flexible – Remote work options available.

Schroeder & Tremayne, Inc. is committed to promoting a work environment in which differences are respected, employees are treated fairly, and individual contributions are valued and rewarded. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.