Graphic Designer (Contract Role)

143 Studios is an award-winning media production company headquartered in Boston, MA focused on creating, producing, and publishing first-of-its-kind audio and visual content that inspires and empowers millions of people globally. We are the team behind the Golden Globe-nominated show The Mel Robbins Podcast, the #1 most-followed show on Apple Podcasts, and The Let Them Theory, a cultural phenomenon with almost 10 million copies sold, six #1 Audible Originals, and professional development education for many of the largest companies in the world. Our work reaches more than 40 million online followers around the world daily.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and creative Graphic Designer for a high-impact, short-term full-time contract role (4-6 months). This role is ideal for a designer who wants their work seen, tested, and shipped at scale. You’ll be designing for one of the largest personal development brands in the world, creating engaging social media graphics, cohesive campaign assets, landing pages, and web modules, while applying A/B test learnings to improve designs.

A strong working proficiency in Figma is required, as you’ll design daily social media content across all platforms, build and maintain organized, developer-ready design files for web and marketing initiatives, and collaborate with multiple teams. You’ll also support the marketing team with ongoing design requests and assets across channels. This role requires comfort moving quickly between planned initiatives and ad-hoc requests while maintaining brand consistency, quality, and attention to detail.

This role is ideal for a designer who thrives in momentum-heavy environments, enjoys clear creative direction, and wants to sharpen their instincts around performance-driven design. A strong focus of the work lives on social, so you need to understand how creative behaves across platforms, how trends evolve, and how quickly audience expectations shift. Success requires adapting in real time—translating strategy into platform-native creative, iterating based on performance data, and evolving with the pace of social.

Responsibilities

• Campaign Creative Execution
  • Translate campaign goals into consistent visual systems (templates, styles, reusable components) and execute high-volume creative across platforms.
  • Produce campaign assets that look cohesive, designing with platform and placement in mind (e.g., Instagram Story safe zones, mobile-first landing pages, ad placements).
• Deliverables May Include
  • Social media assets: single graphic posts, carousels, Instagram Stories.
  • Paid advertising creative.
  • Landing page creative.
  • Email newsletter banners.
  • Internal and external PowerPoint presentations.
• Social Media Support
  • Design high-performing social content: quote cards, carousels, infographics, reel thumbnails, and IG Stories.
  • Create static social media graphics and place content into existing templates.
  • Design one-off assets from scratch as needed.
• Web Design Support
  • Create and optimize landing pages and web modules in Figma.
  • Improve existing pages using performance insights and A/B testing results.
  • Build clean, organized Figma files efficient for developers to implement.
  • Prepare, export, and hand off assets to web development teams or internal teams for WordPress upload.
• Weekly Marketing Support
  • Design email newsletter banners.
  • Provide occasional graphic support for the video team (e.g., graphics for YouTube episodes).
  • Design visual assets intentionally built to drive clicks, engagement, and conversion across platforms.
  • Refine or create slide decks for speeches, brand partnerships, and internal use.
• One-Off + Flexible Design Support
  • Act as flexible design support across print and digital, stepping into unplanned projects as priorities shift.
  • Context-switch between projects, platforms, and timelines without losing momentum while maintaining brand standards.
  • Execute high-quality work under tight turnarounds, often with incomplete information and evolving direction.

Requirements

• General Design Skills
  • Strong proficiency in Figma, including components, styles, clean file organization, naming, and developer-friendly handoff practices.
  • Strong design fundamentals: typography, color, layout, composition, and visual hierarchy.
  • Strong instincts for brand consistency across assets.
  • Ability to take direction and execute quickly while staying within brand/campaign frameworks.
  • Strong attention to detail (spacing, alignment, readability, consistency).
  • Experience designing across a wide variety of media channels.
• Web Design Experience
  • Working knowledge of web design best practices (responsive layouts, scalability, usability).
  • Portfolio examples showing work that performs well on both mobile and desktop.
  • Experience collaborating with and handing off to web development teams.
• Software Requirements
  • Required (Expert-level proficiency, minimum 3+ years experience): Figma, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
  • Comfort working in Monday.com or similar project management tools.
  • Nice to Have: WordPress, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro.

Qualifications

• You understand that good design serves a purpose—attention, clarity, action.
• You can explain why a design works and aren’t overly attached to subjective preferences.
• You take feedback well, iterate quickly, and handle multiple rounds of revisions without losing momentum or quality.
• You stay current on social, platform, and design trends because performance depends on it.
• You’re flexible, calm under pressure, and able to prioritize when everything feels urgent.
• You care about quality but also understand speed and volume.

Portfolio

Please include a portfolio that demonstrates:

• Brand consistency across a set of assets (not just single designs).
• A variety of social media assets showing platform-specific knowledge, brand consistency, and engagement-driven design (e.g., single graphics, carousels, Instagram Story assets).
• Figma file designs and projects.
• Campaign creative examples.
• Web or landing page work (mobile + desktop views).
• Evidence of strong typography and layout skills.
• Nice-to-haves (optional): Motion animation (simple transitions, reels assets).