Senior Designer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead design efforts across graphics, web design, and visual arts to translate client challenges into creative solutions.

  • Own the end-to-end design delivery for campaigns and client work.
  • Must-have: At least 10 years of design experience with Adobe, Figma, and AI tools.
  • Standout: Strong cross-functional collaboration with services and media teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design high quality graphics, utilizing our clients’ branding and executing our content strategy
  • Identify creative campaign solutions and have the ability to develop them from start to finish, helping other designers to execute the project and owning the quality the entire team produces
  • Collaborate with our client services teams and media team to provide the best solutions to the solve client’s problems
  • Coordinate with other designers to ensure deliverables meet campaign goals, brand standards, and firm quality expectations
  • Approaches every project with a critical thinking mindset, beyond the scope of design (considering audience, timelines, past work, and overarching project goals). This person should have meticulous attention to detail and understand how to keep the bigger picture in scope.
  • Strong experience as a designer, and able to communicate with both creatives and non-creatives.
  • Regularly attends internal client meetings, and is expected to represent the creative team in selected external client meetings.
  • Expert proficiency in design programs (Figma, Adobe Products, AI tools) and master of design principles.
  • Can translate client challenges and goals into solutions through design.
  • Thrives in the ideation stages – enjoys experimenting with design ideas, and collaborating with designers and art/creative directors to see each project through.

Requirements

  • At least 10+ years of increasing responsibility in the design field, with experience in graphic design, web design, and/or visual arts
  • Full proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and AI
  • Knows motion tools like After Effects and Jitter
  • Experience giving critical feedback to other designers in productive ways
  • Excellent design taste, including composition, color and typography
  • Ability to work in a very fast-paced, collaborative production environment
  • A pulse on the design world with an interest in what works versus what looks best
  • A portfolio that demonstrates a wide range of design output

Benefits

  • BPI offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match up to 4%, generous time off for vacation, $50 monthly phone reimbursement, unlimited sick time, and 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents.
  • BPI’s benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.
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Bully Pulpit International

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Bully Pulpit International (BPI) is an outcomes agency at the intersection of business, politics, and policy. Born in politics and founded by leaders of the Obama campaign, we apply our unique expertise from these experiences to create sophisticated and customized strategies for companies, causes and candidates. Our clients include established market leaders, new economy firms, philanthropists, CEOs, and elected officials. What these varied brands share in common is the growing need to establish differentiated and lasting bonds with their consumers in a world of fragmented media, deep skepticism, and rapidly changing culture. Reputation has never been more relevant to business ROI, and in our view requires consumers to believe — not only in what a brand is saying, but also in why. We combine proprietary technology and deeper insights to build believers with the speed and agility that today’s market requires.At Bully Pulpit International, we make change possible. To us, this is more than a commitment—it's a passion. Because we truly believe in the work we do.

Founded in 2009
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
270 employees (95 in marketing)
63% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.6%
Direct
46%
Referral
5.7%
Social
15%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~270

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
77 (29% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2023
    Series Unknown
  • Sep 2016
    Series Unknown

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