Creative Marketing Designer I - Motion

Responsibilities

• Create and produce brand creative assets across digital, print, and social platforms.
• Maintain brand and sub-brand consistency across all creative outputs and channels.
• Contribute to brainstorming sessions with creative input on campaign concepting.
• Collaborate with the Senior Creative Marketing Designer to build and maintain design systems and templates (Email, RON, Social, ROP).
• Develop and produce motion graphics and video content for social, email, and campaign deliverables.
• Build mood boards and concept decks to communicate how creative concepts connect to campaign goals.
• Partner with the Senior Creative Marketing Designer to explore AI-based motion and video tools (e.g., Creatify) as part of the team's broader AI innovation goals.
• Draft baseline copy for owned projects, while relying on campaign partners for core messaging direction.
• Design and produce email creative for brand and sub-brand campaigns, from concept through final layout.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of related experience.
• Preferably a BFA in a relevant field.
• Experience and/or interest with motion graphics and video editing software (After Effects, Premiere, or equivalent).
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop as well as Figma.
• Strong typography and layout skills, including email design.
• Attention to detail and ability to work within brand guidelines while pushing the brand forward.
• Strong time management skills and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Comfort learning and navigating new platforms and marketing systems, including but not limited to AI applications.

Compensation

The compensation range for this position is $24.03-26.44/hour. Compensation for the role will depend on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. The Minnesota Star Tribune offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401(K) match, healthcare coverage – medical, dental, and vision, life, disability, paid time off, and a broad range of other benefits.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that are required to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work in a typical office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, keyboards, mouse, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The office environment will have normal lighting and climate control tolerances. Work from home office environment may differ from the physical offices in Minneapolis, MN.

Disclaimer

The duties and responsibilities of this position and this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice based on business needs.