Senior, Graphic Designer

About the Role

Create Work That Inspires Change. Help organizations build a competitive advantage by creating a more sustainable future. As a Senior Graphic Designer, based in Knoxville or remote, you'll play a key role in shaping how purpose-driven brands connect with their audiences through compelling visual storytelling. This opportunity is ideal for an experienced creative professional who thrives at the intersection of strategy, design, and innovation. You'll collaborate with talented marketers, strategists, writers, and designers to develop impactful campaigns that not only look exceptional but also help solve complex client challenges.

Why This Role Matters: Great design has the power to influence decisions, shape perceptions, and inspire action. In this role, you'll help bring Shelton Group's creative vision to life by developing visually engaging campaigns that support strategic marketing and advertising objectives. Your work will help organizations communicate their sustainability stories in ways that resonate with audiences and create lasting impact. This is an opportunity to contribute both creatively and strategically, partnering across teams to develop innovative solutions that deliver results while advancing meaningful environmental and social outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Create beautiful, visually surprising, and engaging creative work across multiple platforms and campaigns.
• Develop concepts and visual solutions that align with approved strategic and creative marketing objectives.
• Shape the visual direction of marketing and advertising campaigns from concept through execution.
• Collaborate closely with account management and cross-functional teams to develop and present effective creative solutions.
• Stay current on emerging design trends, cultural shifts, creative tools, and industry best practices to keep work relevant and impactful.
• Contribute to both strategic recommendations and tactical creative execution for client projects.
• Help elevate the agency's creative standards by bringing fresh ideas, thoughtful design, and innovative approaches to every assignment.
• Support the successful delivery of client work in a fast-paced, collaborative agency environment.
• Attend creative input meetings as needed.
• Support creative execution using a variety of software programs and creative tools.
• Collaborate across departments to strategize, manage, and execute effective creative solutions.
• Manage various aspects of projects, including concept development, design strategy, collaboration, and execution.

Requirements

• An excellent portfolio of design work.
• Seasoned design professional with strong design skills and a commitment to craft and conceptual thinking.
• Experience creating work that is visually surprising, captivating, and memorable.
• Strong marketing and advertising knowledge.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Skilled across both conceptual and technical disciplines.
• Proficiency with digital, print, and social media design.
• Experience making strategic and tactical recommendations for clients.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a variety of creative professionals, including writers and digital designers.
• Strong partnership and teamwork skills within and outside the Creative Department.
• Proficiency with Apple Mac, Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Office.
• A curious mindset with a passion for learning new skills and exploring innovative approaches to design and art direction.
• Authentic, visionary, and thoughtful approach to creative problem-solving.

Preferred Qualifications

• Agency experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of digital strategies and best practices, while continuously seeking new ways to engage users.
• Video production or editing experience.
• Prior knowledge of Slack, Monday.com, and Trello.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

• Requires sitting for extended periods of time.
• Requires frequent alpha/numeric keyboarding and navigation of standard software programs.
• Requires effective and professional communications over the phone and in person.
• Requires close vision, including prolonged computer screen use, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Why Join Us

If you enjoy solving client challenges, thinking strategically, creating exceptional design, and collaborating with talented people who care deeply about their work, you'll find exciting opportunities here. You'll be part of a growing agency where curiosity, creativity, and continuous learning are valued, and where your contributions help shape meaningful outcomes for clients and communities alike.

About ERM Marketing & Communications Agency

Trusted by the world's largest companies, we combine technical expertise with real-time market insights to craft stories that reduce risk, build value and move audiences. Seamlessly integrating sustainability action and communication — both the doing and the saying — helping you make the most of the story you have today while building an even stronger one for tomorrow. With a single partner, our work turns sustainability into a source of value and impact for your organization and its stakeholders. We build corporate