Creative Associate

About the role

McChrystal Group is a leadership and management consulting firm that partners with executive teams to solve their most complex performance and coordination challenges. We are looking for a talented Creative Associate to help elevate our brand across marketing, sales, digital, and executive communications.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an in-house creative studio for internal stakeholders, clients, and the marketing team in partnership with the Digital Producer.
• Create visual assets that support marketing campaigns, thought leadership initiatives, events, sales efforts, and executive communications.
• Ensure consistent application of brand standards across all materials and maintain and evolve brand templates, graphics, and design systems.
• Design executive presentations, decks, client-facing materials, and internal communications, as well as sales collateral including one-pagers, brochures, case studies, infographics, and proposals.
• Transform complex information into visually compelling and easy-to-understand materials.
• Design landing pages, web graphics, website updates, and email visuals, and create social media graphics and campaign creative assets.
• Partner with the Digital Producer on digital content production and campaign execution.
• Develop visual assets for paid, owned, and earned marketing channels and assist with asset creation for events, webinars, product launches, and brand initiatives.
• Support content marketing efforts through graphics, illustrations, and visual storytelling.
• Work closely with marketing leadership, sales, and the Digital Producer, and participate in creative brainstorming and campaign development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Marketing, or related field.
• 1–2 years of experience in graphic design, creative services, marketing design, or a related role.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating digital, presentation, and marketing design work.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Strong visual design, typography, and layout skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.

Preferred experience

• Experience designing in PowerPoint and Google Slides.
• Familiarity with Canva and Figma.
• Experience supporting website and landing page design.
• Basic knowledge of digital marketing and social media platforms.
• Motion graphics or video editing experience.

What success looks like

• Produces polished, on-brand creative assets across multiple formats.
• Creates presentations and sales materials that elevate the company's professional image.
• Delivers strong visual storytelling that helps marketing and sales teams achieve their goals.
• Partners effectively with the Digital Producer to bring campaigns to life.

Pay

The salary for this role is $70,000 - $100,000 a year.