[Hiring] Designer @Teal Media

Role Description

The designer executes on deliverables set forth by senior Creative team members and clients, bringing their unique and fresh perspective to projects. They collaborate closely with project team members in order to have a confident approach to their designs. Through participation in learning sessions in order to create intentional designs, they strategically implement feedback, and deliver work on time and on budget while juggling multiple priorities.

Your Team

This role is under the Creative team. The Designer will report to the Creative Director.

Responsibilities

• Project work and client engagement (80%)
• Serve as the primary executor of design deliverables on one-off projects and retainers as set forth by senior creative team members.
• Consistently prepare and present quality presentations to clients based in a framework to help organizations understand how we meet audience goals, business objectives, and maintenance of what is being produced.
• Implement feedback with an eye for detail and strategic application per briefs.
• Conduct quality assurance, testing, and proofing on project deliverables in preparation for presentation/deliverables.
• Without much support, consistently and confidently train & educate clients navigating interactions with them whether through email or “in-person” guiding them through deliverables and expected steps in the process so they can make informed decisions.
• Reading, absorbing background materials, relevant client communications to thoughtfully participate in learning sessions, workshops and brainstorming sessions.
• Act as support or production designer within random one-off requests outside of set client projects to create additional concepts, collateral, and/or using best-practice knowledge to build on existing deliverables.
• Project management and inter-departmental collaboration (10%)
• Actively be a leader within the design team to set a tone of collaboration with enthusiasm in brainstorms and inspiration setting.
• Review design briefs and deliverables with Art Directors with an ownership mindset, ensuring a thorough and complete understanding of assigned projects and tasks so that you can be additive to the design process & vision.
• Setting meetings, reviews, and asking questions and guidance to get what is needed for a thoughtful pacing of project work.
• Expert at juggling multiple priorities knowing when and how to move between projects to meet various deadlines.
• Over-communicating and collaborating informally and formally with internal and external project team members to create innovative solutions using their expertise and knowledge to further refine concepts.
• Have a showing vs. telling mindset that sets team members up for success and quality collaboration.
• Facilitate learning and process development (10%)
• Maintain, use and implement process & methodology set forth by creative team members that help gain efficiencies within projects.
• Provide feedback to Art Directors when process & methodology is inefficient, unclear or causes roadblocks for project teams & clients.
• Actively create case studies, marketing materials and support teal business development by producing showcases of our work.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.
• Solid foundational knowledge and understanding of UX best practices and design principles.
• Solid understanding of the process of how to develop a brand’s visual identity through expanding on foundational brand elements via a brand's key differentiators.
• Produce design deliverables (logo concepts, visual identity, brand guides, collateral, etc.) as specified by the project.
• Solid foundational knowledge of Google Slides/PPT, Figma, and Canva.
• Comfort trying new tools and skills, such as basic video editing, Mailchimp email template design, etc.
• Comfort experimenting with AI tools.

Additional Skills

• Illustration.
• Motion design/animation.
• Strong AI proficiency/ability to create skills in Claude/ChatGPT.

Equal Opportunity Statement

If your experience doesn’t exactly match the qualifications listed, but you believe you’d thrive in this role, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply and tell us why you’re the right person for the job.

We strongly encourage individuals from historically marginalized communities to apply—including Black and Indigenous people, people of color, immigrants, women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, neurodiverse individuals, and those who have been system-impacted.

Teal Media is an equal opportunity employer that values a diverse workforce and inclusive culture. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status. We are not offering US visa sponsorship at this time.