eLearning Multimedia Designer

Job Overview
COMPANY OVERVIEW

Gallopade is a leading publisher of elementary and middle school curriculum resources aligned to state learning standards. For more than 45 years, Gallopade has partnered with schools, teachers, libraries, museums, and bookstores to provide titles about Social Studies, Geography, Science, and more.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Gallopade is seeking a contract e-learning multimedia designer to join our rapidly growing company as part of our Product Development team. If hired for this role, you will be responsible for designing print and digital curriculum resources for grades K-8. The ideal candidate has exceptional InDesign skills, HTML and CSS experience, and thrives in a structured design environment working with established templates and style guides. As a designer at Gallopade, you have the unique opportunity to create resources that equip teachers to teach in an engaging, effective way. By enriching the teacher and student experience, you will also contribute to Gallopade’s significant growth in its position as an industry leader and innovator. This contract role could turn into a longer-term or full-time opportunity.

RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS ROLE

Design engaging, communicative, age-appropriate content for Gallopade’s print and digital products, including Student Books, Teacher’s Editions, assessments, and supplemental resources. This responsibility includes:

• Build and use InDesign styles, color palettes, master pages, font libraries, and other “best practices” to achieve professional design results and workflow efficiencies
• Create digital lessons and assessments in our CMS from current products
• Incorporate impactful visuals including photographs, icons, illustrations, charts, tables, timelines, and other graphical elements to make content accessible and engaging
• Maintain brand consistency by ensuring designs align with brand guidelines and maintain a seamless look throughout all projects
• Make design revisions and text edits accurately and in a timely manner
• Apply consistent formatting across large-scale curriculum projects
• Prepare final design files for digital and print production, ensuring quality and accuracy

Additionally:

• Follow, improve, and establish product development workflows and documentation
• Collaborate with other designers, writers, editors, digital developers, project management, and company management
• Brainstorm and develop new creative concepts for products
• Stay up to date on new technology and trends to keep our products current and our processes streamlined

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field
• At least 3-5 years of professional graphic design experience, ideally in educational curriculum
• Expert InDesign skills with proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator
• Experience with both digital and print design; knowledge of HTML/CSS basics
• Experience in any of the following areas is a plus: content or asset management software, instructional design, K–12 curriculum resources
• Excellent communication and time-management skills
• Organization and file-management experience
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines
• Attention to detail and ability to work within deadlines

Job Type: Contract

Application Question(s):

• What isyour ideal hourly pay rate?

Experience:

• Graphic design: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote