Digital Creative Designer

About the role

The Digital Creative Designer is a highly creative designer, content creator, and storyteller responsible for developing compelling digital fundraising and awareness creative across Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission’s marketing channels.

Responsibilities

• Concept and design integrated digital fundraising and awareness campaigns across paid social, display advertising, web, landing pages, email, and organic social media.
• Create Meta, TikTok, and display advertising creative designed to engage audiences and drive fundraising performance.
• Design homepage banners, splash pages, landing pages, and related website creative that supports donor engagement and conversion.
• Develop authentic storytelling content and multimedia creative that strengthens connection, trust, and long-term donor engagement from monthly donors through short-form video, infographics, downloadable resources, and collaborative storytelling projects with writers and the team.
• Create and edit short-form video content for fundraising campaigns, awareness efforts, social media, and donor storytelling.
• Create creative concepts, hooks, visual narratives, and campaign ideas for donor acquisition, sustainer growth, cultivation, and seasonal campaigns.
• Create social-first content that feels authentic, emotionally compelling, and aligned with current digital trends and platform best practices.
• Collaborate with writers, photographers, videographers, and internal teams to bring stories of life change to life across channels.
• Contribute fresh ideas, creative experimentation, and innovative approaches to fundraising and awareness campaigns.
• Analyze campaign performance including engagement, CTR, conversion rate, ROAS, and donor response trends to improve creative effectiveness.
• Support creative testing strategies across visuals, video hooks, landing pages, and calls to action.
• Continuously optimize and iterate on campaign creative based on audience insights and performance data.
• Collaborate with media buying partners to improve fundraising outcomes through stronger creative strategy and testing.
• Occasionally provide graphic design support for brochures, event materials, signage, and related organizational collateral.
• Review direct mail design from agency partners to ensure alignment with Mission branding.
• Help maintain organized creative systems, asset libraries, and production workflows.
• Ensure creative assets remain visually consistent, donor-centered, and aligned with organizational brand standards.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with development, program teams, and external partners to support integrated campaign execution.
• Participate in campaign brainstorming, creative planning, and digital fundraising strategy discussions.
• Help support scalable creative workflows and best practices across the Mass Marketing team.
• Support coordination with freelancers, contractors, creative vendors, interns, or production partners as applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, marketing, communications, multimedia, or related field preferred.
• 3–5+ years of experience in digital design, content creation, social media creative, advertising creative, multimedia production, or fundraising marketing.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating digital campaign creative, social content, advertising design, storytelling, web creative, and/or short-form video work.
• Experience designing for Meta, TikTok, display advertising, landing pages, and web platforms.
• Experience creating or editing short-form video content for social media or digital campaigns.
• Strong understanding of social-first creative trends, storytelling, and audience engagement.
• Experience interpreting campaign performance metrics and applying insights to improve creative performance preferred.
• Proficiency with tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Figma, Premiere, CapCut, After Effects, or related creative platforms preferred.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and timelines.

Qualifications

• Maintains a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Him.
• Faithfully upholds The Mission and your team in prayer.
• Participates in team devotions as schedule permits.
• Demonstrates behavior aligned with the Mission’s Statement of Faith, Standard of Conduct, policies, and expectations.
• Effectively represents Jesus Christ to a diverse audience, including our Mission teams, our volunteers, guests and homeless neighbors.

Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Canva
• Figma
• Premiere
• CapCut
• After Effects

Benefits

• Medical / Dental / Vision
• Basic Life Plan – 100% company paid
• Voluntary Products including Life, AD&D, Disability, Accident and Critical Illness insurance
• EAP and 24/7 Virtual Mental Health – 100% company paid
• 4 weeks of paid vacation (accrued)
• Accrued paid sick time
• 10 paid holidays + 1 Floating Holiday
• Personal Day and Birthday holiday
• Retirement benefits w/ company match
• Continuing Education Reimbursement Program

Pay

$32.16 Hourly to $45.03 Hourly