With over 12 years of experience in digital design, motion graphics and art direction, I am a strategic thinker and a capable doer. I am an expert at managing my workload while advancing multiple projects simultaneously.

I seek to produce high quality work while working collaboratively as a problem-solver, conceptual thinker and creative leader. I continue to be a consistent and accountable team player with a zero ego attitude.

I am comfortable working within established brand guidelines while continuing to find new and interesting ways to express the brand within those guidelines, along with understanding importance of brand consistency.

I truly enjoy learning from my fellow designers to enhance my creative innovation, and drive new ideas and concepts to elevate a brand.

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Contact & Info

  • kariramletdesign@gmail.com

    952-221-9446

  • •  Adobe Creative Suite:
    InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver

    •  Adobe Firefly

    •  Figma and Sketch

    •  HTML/CSS

    •  Microsoft Office Suite

  • •  Creative strategy and direction

    •  Brand governance

    •  Motion graphics

    •  Campaign concept development and design

    •  Team leadership

  • BrainCo, The Minneapolis School of Advertising and Design
    Graphic Design & Art Direction

    University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
    Mass Communications/Advertising & Web Design

Experience

  • July 2022 – Present

    Role: Design Program Manager (Present role)

    Focus: Mentorship and build collaboration + learning

    - Manage a remote 25-person design team of Creative Leads, Content Designers, UX/CX Designers and Asset Management Stewards across 15 agile brand teams

    - Lead bi-weekly mentoring sessions to up-skill designers in animation, brand and design standards, and tool proficiency.

    - Lead bi-weekly meetings with all designers to share design projects to foster team collaboration and inspiration by building and encouraging a community among designers

    - Coordinate regular check-ins to coach designers and ensure high-quality output, continuous development, and workplace satisfaction based on individual and team feedback

    - Lead initiatives to enhance on-boarding and training of new designers

    Role: Digital Art Director

    Focus: Digital Design (July 2025 - December 2025)

    - Create digital presentations and brochures from initial concept to final file deliverable

    - Work closely with project managers, marketers, and clients to ensure project goals and deadlines are met

     

    Role: Content Designer (Flex)

    Focus: SME and Flex Design Support (April 2024 - July 2025)

    - Supported design team members by being the go-to Subject Matter Expert for digital tactic guidelines

    - Supported over 20 designers across 10 brands with design support on various projects when designers were out of office and/or designers workloads were too high

    - Created reusable design templates to improve efficiency and reduce asset creation time for my design team members

     

    Role: Content Designer

    Focus: Digital Design and Animation (July 2022 - April 2024)

    –  Designed tactics for both the Healthcare Professional and Healthcare Consumer audiences.

    Tactics include: social media static and animated posts, email design, web banners, digital and print brochures, print ads, website graphics and more

    –  Created graphics, animations and layouts in accordance with channel-specific best practices and maintaining strict brand style guidelines

    –  Developed creative digital campaigns to meet an overall brand strategy while working collaboratively with marketing, field sales, design and strategy partners to create industry compliant pieces

    –  Communicated and justified design thinking and creative concepts to team members while also speaking to my creative concepts in clinical review sessions

  • June 2020 – June 2022

    Role: Graphic Designer

    Focus: Digital, Print and Web Design + Animation

    - Created innovative and creative concepts that follow internal campaign and master brand guidelines

    - Delivered print and digital materials supporting product education and patient engagement across global markets

    - Developed responsive web pages using AEM, applying best practices in UX, SEO, and accessibility

    - Participate in cross-functional teams by working closely with art directors, designers, marketing strategists and project managers to execute multi-channel campaigns

  • October 2019 – March 2020

    Role: Associate Art Director

    Focus: Art Direction and Digital Design

  • January 2017 - November 2019

    Role: Marketing and Design Lead

    Focus: Art Direction and Digital Design

  • June 2014 - December 2017

    Role: Design and Typeset Specialist

    Focus: Print Design and Proofing + Typesetting Brochures