Media Design Lead

USA (Remote)

$80K/yr – $90K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Lead design efforts across campaigns, guiding art direction, mentoring teammates, and presenting strategic concepts while delivering high-quality craft on tight deadlines.

  • Own projects and manage multiple workstreams from ideation to optimization.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to meet client objectives and ensure cohesive visuals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design ideation for a variety of mediums — social, digital, OOH, print, motion, and experiential activations.
  • Establish and maintain the art direction for campaign visuals, ensuring our work stays on brand and cohesive across channels.
  • Collaborate with other creatives, strategists, and account teams to develop design concepts that meet client objectives and resonate with target audiences.
  • Guide and mentor designers and partner closely with writers.
  • Present your design work, explaining your creative approach and rationale, both internally and to clients.
  • Incorporate creative feedback with care, ensuring that revisions align with project objectives while maintaining a high standard of craft.
  • Contribute and offer insight at every stage of the process, from brainstorming sessions and strategic discussions, to concepting and creation, to campaign performance reviews and optimization planning.
  • Take ownership of your work, consistently meeting deadlines while managing multiple projects and adapting to shifting priorities.
  • Stay current on design trends, platform-specific specs, compliance and accessibility, and general best practices, with an eagerness to apply new techniques and technologies to your projects.
  • Produce creative outputs that meet platform and vendor specifications and reflect Ologie's design standards.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of graphic design experience in an agency or consulting environment.
  • A portfolio that shows both strong ideas and clean execution across a variety of different media formats.
  • Fluency in Figma (comfort with prototyping and design systems in Figma is a big plus) as well as the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator). Familiarity with After Effects or similar animation software is a plus.
  • A strong eye for typography, hierarchy, color usage, and layout structure.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills — able to articulate ideas clearly, give and receive feedback constructively, and thrive in client-facing discussions.
  • Ability to independently own projects and manage multiple priorities while consistently meeting deadlines.
  • Experience mentoring or guiding younger creatives.
  • Ability to earn and maintain platform-specific certifications (e.g., Meta Creative Best Practices, LinkedIn, Google) and apply them to your work.
  • Bachelor's degree in art, graphic design, or a related field preferred but not required.

Preferred

  • Experience with higher education branding or marketing, and a genuine understanding of the audiences and challenges that shape this work.

Benefits

  • health, dental, and vision insurance; company-sponsored life and disability insurance; optional life insurance; mental health support; 401(k) profit-sharing plan with a company match; Paid time off includes your own flexible personal time, along with paid holidays throughout the year, including a holiday break (typically up to six days) at the end of December.
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Ologie

Ologie is an employee-owned company built for education. As a marketing and branding agency, we help colleges, universities, and schools build their reputations, recruit new students, and gain philanthropic support.We do this through a digital-first mindset, targeted marketing strategies, and emotional storytelling - all working together to drive tangible results and change lives.

Founded in 1987
Columbus, Ohio, USA
128 employees (64 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$80K/yr – $90K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
28 (22% of company)
Median Tenure
7.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.5%
Direct
47.6%
Referral
6.1%
Social
15.2%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~127
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Media Design Lead

Ologie · USA · Remote