Graphics Freelancer

Are you a design student or new design professional looking to learn about using compelling design to promote web and social media content? SparkPeople.com, America's largest weight-loss and healthy living website, is seeking a motivated and talented self-starter with a strong eye for graphics to intern with our team in Cincinnati, OH. Candidate will help source photos and create custom images, infographics and other designs for socially shareable web content.

Key responsibilities will include:
  • Source images for web and social media use
  • Create and optimize custom, socially-shareable images for multiple social media platforms
  • Create posts for social media platforms, including Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter
  • Work directly with editorial staff to optimize images for social sharing
  • Learn and utilize content-promotion strategies and data analysis basics from a company that drives millions of page views monthly from social media
Ideal candidate will possess:
  • The ability to learn quickly and adapt to an ever-changing digital media environment
  • Basic skills in photo editing software (such as Adobe PhotoShop or Corel)
  • An eye for selecting high-quality, "on-brand" stock images
  • An eye for trending topics on social media in the nutrition, fitness and wellness space
  • HTML, Internet and Microsoft Office experience
  • Attention to detail and great organization skills
  • Ability to meet deadlines and manage several different tasks in a realistic time frame
  • Ability to quickly generate ideas for compelling features
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience running social media contests and programs a plus

About SparkPeople
SparkPeople.com is one of the most-trafficked weight-loss website in America, with over 100 million page views and 14 million visits each month. Our free nutrition and wellness programs help people reach meaningful health goals, and literally save lives.

The SparkPeople office (located in downtown Cincinnati) is a fun and exciting work environment with amazing career opportunities, an on-site gym, and the flexibility for occasional work-from-home. Our small team regularly works with many of the top Internet and publishing companies. We have had very little employee turnover; SparkPeople leaders have worked together for 5-10 years.

This is a freelance position. Candidate will use their own computer and other equipment. We are open to freelancers who live anywhere in the United States.

To Apply
Please send resume  to careers@sparkpeople.com. Please include "Graphics Freelancer" in the subject line of your email.