Senior Specialist, Graphic Designer

Location: offices in NYC, 3x per week in office
Compensation Range: approx. $40/hour based on experience

About the Role

The Senior Designer is a problem-solver who thrives on delivering conceptually powerful, compelling, on-strategy, and detail-oriented executions against creative briefs. Beyond a mastery of design skills and software, the designer is proactive, self-motivated, passionate, a team-player and hungry.

This designer will focus on large-campaign creative ideation and development, including but not limited to program branding, e-learning, and video.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop strong, strategically sound concepts from brief to production for small and large campaigns

  • Excellent communication skills; engage team members at the right points, manage up as needed

  • Consistently deliver work on time, to the right degree of finish at each stage, and at high quality

  • Efficiently manage project workload for day-to-day needs

  • Effectively expand upon the boundaries of our design work with respect for the core tenets of our brand to deliver inspired, fresh creative that still maintains brand consistency

  • Collaborate with other agency teams including digital, social, video, and project management

  • Maintain expert knowledge of media-specific best practices across OOH, direct mail, digital, and social platforms; ensures creative is contextually relevant and effective

  • Strong presentation skills, clearly explaining how concepts will deliver against strategic, business, and creative goals to senior stakeholders

  • Liaise with stakeholders and project managers to ensure deadlines are met

  • Thinks holistically across channels to create integrated campaigns that carry brand consistency and meet audience needs across platforms

  • Stay up-to-date with industry developments, design tools, and emerging AI technologies to help drive creative efficiency and productivity

Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 3–5 years of experience, ideally in an agency environment

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Graphic Design, Visual Communications)

  • Strong conceptual and design thinking skills

  • Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, Google Workspace, Figma, and other relevant design software

  • Strong knowledge of best practices for digital (web, landing pages, email), social media, OOH, direct mail, print, and video formats

  • Excellent organizational and communication skills; attention to detail, multitasking, prioritization, and project management

  • Thrives in a fast-paced, self-motivated, deadline-driven environment

  • Problem-solves with enthusiasm

  • Addresses feedback quickly and collaborates effectively

  • Ability to source, direct, or provide creative direction for photography or illustration when needed

  • (A plus) Familiarity with motion design tools (e.g., After Effects)