Senior Designer, Brand Marketing & Events

New York City, NY (On-site)

$90K/yr – $110K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own high impact presentation design and motion visuals for campaigns, events, and brand activations.

  • Creative asset production across print, digital, social, and experiential touchpoints from concept to vendor-ready execution.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with Creative, Events, Marketing, Editorial, Brand, and Sales to align direction, priorities, and timelines.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design high-quality creative assets across brand marketing, advertiser programs, and experiential initiatives, including: Magazine/in-book advertising units; Print collateral and invitations; Signage and environmental graphics; Stage visuals and digital screens; Event activations and microsites; Social, digital, and email promotional assets; Presentation materials and campaign toolkits
  • Develop promotional creative across print, digital, social, and email channels to support brand-led events, integrated marketing campaigns, advertiser programs, and audience engagement initiatives.
  • Partner with the Creative Director to shape creative concepts, briefs, mood boards, visual storytelling presentations, and design systems for internal stakeholders, brand teams, sales/marketing partners, and event initiatives.
  • Create and maintain scalable brand assets, templates, print collateral, and campaign toolkits across multiple brands while ensuring consistency with established brand standards and visual identities.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Creative, Events, Marketing, Editorial, Brand, and Sales teams to align on creative direction, project priorities, timelines, production needs, and execution strategies.
  • Lead high-impact presentation design projects utilizing advanced visual storytelling techniques, including animation, motion builds, diagrams, infographics, templates, and visual data communication.
  • Prepare files for print, digital, social, and experiential production, ensuring accuracy, consistency, technical precision, and vendor-ready execution.
  • Manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining exceptional attention to detail, organization, and high creative standards.

Requirements

  • 7–10 years of professional design experience, ideally within a magazine, media, publishing, lifestyle, retail, or brand marketing organization
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design or related field; or equivalent training and/or experience
  • Strong editorial design sensibility with highly refined typography, layout, pacing, and visual composition skills
  • Deep understanding of magazine/in-book advertising, print production, mechanicals, file preparation, color management, and vendor-ready print execution
  • Ability to translate premium lifestyle brand identities across print, digital, social, presentation, and experiential touchpoints
  • Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop; Figma experience a plus
  • Strong presentation design skills with proficiency in Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Keynote
  • Experience designing social and digital promotional assets, including campaign extensions, paid/organic social, email, and web/microsite creative
  • Understanding of experiential event design needs, including signage, environmental graphics, stage visuals, screen content, activations, and on-site brand moments
  • Exceptional attention to detail with a commitment to consistency, accuracy, and brand standards
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across creative, marketing, editorial, sales, brand, and events teams
  • Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, shifting timelines, and tight deadlines
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume environment while maintaining polished, brand-right creative output
  • Self-motivated and resourceful, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team setting

Preferred

  • Figma experience a plus
  • experience with magazine/in-book advertising, branded content, marketing campaigns, social promotion, and/or experiential events strongly preferred

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage
  • unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • adoption or surrogate assistance
  • donation matching
  • tuition reimbursement
  • basic life insurance
  • basic accidental death & dismemberment
  • supplemental life insurance
  • supplemental accident insurance
  • commuter benefits
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People Inc.

People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith) is the largest digital and print publisher in America. More than 175 million people trust us each month to help them find inspiration, make decisions, and take action. People Inc.'s more than 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Allrecipes, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living. People Inc. is based in New York City and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC).

New York, New York, USA
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