Applicants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area only, please.

This position is primarily responsible for the creation of graphics and visuals for Great Clips University (GCU) resources, programs and courses through user experience, graphic, and template design. The Graphic Designer will also provide design expertise to the learning and development team by creating presentations, event programs, and supplemental visual needs.  At times, there will be opportunities to provide visual support to other Great Clips Inc departments.

Your Mission

On your journey, you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborates with team to analyze and recommend design solutions that achieve desired outcomes while supporting a geographically dispersed staff and system.
• Works with instructional designers to develop training materials to ensure accurate and timely materials are available for Education Services and other internal and external customers.
• Creates style guides and recommendations to ensure brand compliance and visually interesting training materials. Acts as a link between GCU and the overall brand to ensure consistency of visual messaging.
• Supports Great Clips Meetings & Events through presentation and graphics review and/or design as needed. Acts as GCU lead on presentation review process.
• Reviews and finalizes graphic designs of training materials, workshops and support materials as requested to support the system’s growth.
• Ability to listen, earn trust, and accept direct feedback from franchisees or GCI staff while building strong, positive relationships.

Your Expertise

To land this job you will need to show your proven ability to:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design required, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 1+ year of experience in graphic design required.  Experience in e-learning or instructional design a plus.
• Expertise in graphic design programs such as the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Expertise in Microsoft Suite of Office products.
• Knowledge of and experience designing presentations in PowerPoint.
• Ability to develop and recommend visual treatment of materials that is creative and in line with the established brand standards.
• Ability to establish credibility and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to use a computer and learn computer software quickly.

Your Work Environment

This is a hybrid position requiring in-office workdays twice weekly, including every Wednesday and another day of your choice (Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday). The remainder of the week can be worked remotely with reliable, secure internet.

Living the Values

We Are Kind

We Exceed Expectations

We Focus on Execution

We Keep it Simple

We Listen and Earn Trust

We Make it Fun

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary, health benefits, wellness programs, a company-matching 401K and tuition assistance but some perks that set us apart are:

A focus on your development. We want to know what your dreams and aspirations are and hope to find ways of Great Clips helping you along in your journey. Your personalized development plan will create a path for your growth and promotion potential.

A GREAT culture. One the most frequent compliments you will hear about Great Clips from employees, franchisees and business partners alike is that Great Clips has a GREAT culture. Our belief is that we are strongest together and therefore find it important to have an inclusive, diverse work culture. Though we embrace our differences, we all share in our 6 core values; we are kind, we listen and earn trust, we keep it simple, we focus on execution, we exceed expectations and WE MAKE IT FUN.

A spirit of ideas and innovation. Here at Great Clips, we have a competitive lead within our industry. Though we hold a strong position, we never stop pushing ourselves forward and continue to look for new ways of delivering a powerful and enduring brand.

About Great Clips

With more than 4,400 franchised salons throughout the United States and Canada, Great Clips is the world’s largest haircutting salon brand. Our salon owners and corporate staff are dedicated to our salon communities with a focus on philanthropic and volunteer activities. Great Clips, Inc. employees are passionate about what we do and our technology team geeks out in finding ways to use technology to make what we do even better.

Great Clips Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Great Clips Inc. participates in the US E-Verify program. With all new hires, we provide the Social Security Administration and, if applicable, the US Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.   This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.