Associate Digital Designer

About the role

The Associate Digital Designer plays a key role in supporting the daily digital design and production needs across the organization. Sitting at the intersection of web and brand design, you will work closely with the Staff UX Designer while providing cross-functional support to the Manager of Brand & Design. This role is ideal for a highly collaborative, detail-oriented designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in flawless execution. You will heavily focus on production design support—leveraging established design systems, component libraries, and templates to craft clean, engaging, and on-brand digital assets.

Responsibilities

• Production & Asset Creation: Build, adapt, and export daily digital assets (banners, social posts, web graphics, digital signage, and email templates) following established brand guidelines and design systems.
• Email Design: Design visual layouts for marketing emails using existing template libraries as well as custom graphics to embed in layouts.
• Web Support:
  • Design new web pages and make updates to existing web pages based on the Figma component library and Contentful CMS.
  • Apply branding across third-party web plug-in sites.
  • Create new web mockups and execute new designs for the ecommerce Shop site through Shopify.
  • Maintain updated photography across websites, including identifying selects, resizing, and updating photo assets.
• Digital Signage & On-Campus Visuals:
  • Format and maintain digital signage templates, ensuring graphics, announcement slides, and informational displays are clear, visually consistent, and updated on schedule.
  • Update templates for new content types.
  • Design custom digital signage and review partner signage for ad-hoc assets.
• Social Media Design: Produce static graphics for social platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, YouTube) optimized for platform-specific specs and engagement.
• Design System & Library Maintenance: Utilize, organize, and help update component libraries and design tokens in Figma to ensure design consistency and streamlined workflows across teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with writers, marketing leads, and external vendors to prep, package, and deliver digital files.
• Quality Control & Pre-Release Auditing: Maintain rigorous attention to detail—conducting quality checks on visual assets, color accuracy, typography standards, and screen display formats across multiple device sizes.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience in cross-platform brand design.
• Track record of designing assets and web pages based on existing identity standards; demonstrated rigorous eye for detail and maintaining brand standards.
• Experience across a wide range of design platforms including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Enthusiasm and interest in working on production design.
• Comfortable guiding production work of outside vendors for email and web design.

Pay

The salary range for this role is between $59,755 and $74,670.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role based at the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.