Senior Visual Designer

Summary

Join Newsweek as a Senior Visual Designer and contribute to the visual design aspects of various projects across multiple platforms. You will be responsible for maintaining brand consistency, creating original designs, editing photos, and developing illustrations and motion graphics. This role requires expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and other design tools, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines. Flexibility in working hours is essential. Newsweek is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• Juggling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines
• Expert understanding of Adobe Creative Site Tools, Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, Figma and InDesign
• Strong sketching and creative/graphic design skills to flesh out ideas and concepts
• Understanding of design principles, including layout, typography, and color theory
• Good communication skills for interacting with stakeholders, coworkers, and explaining design concepts to a general audience
• Familiarity with AI tools used to general graphic designs and other visuals
• Familiarity with U.S. news & trends
• Must be available to work flexible hours
• Must possess excellent English speaking and writing skills

Responsibilities

• Supports branding consistency and photo image quality improvement initiative for Newsweek.com website, social media and YouTube channels
• Finds and replaces off brand and inappropriate imagery
• Assist Managing Editor, Creative with training and providing editors and multimedia team with regular consistent feedback on bespoke images and visual elements
• Creates branding and style guidelines at direction of creative team
• Creates digital bespoke imagery, charts, maps, infographics, data visualizations and branded visuals for editorial, sponsored/commercial special projects, events, feature articles and videos
• Designs logos, branding elements, web designs/elements, graphics and event visuals
• Post-production and manipulation of photographs taken at events and for special projects
• Creates storyboards to convey animation concepts for videos, which includes graphics, photos, typography elements, characters, objects, scenery, and backgrounds
• Designs graphic elements for live filming videos, sizzle reels and highlight videos
• Creates visuals and design elements for live filming/event videos
• Perform any other reasonable duties as necessary to meet the needs of the business