Associate Digital Designer

Obama Foundation; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Obama Foundation in Chicago is seeking an Associate Digital Designer to support daily digital design and production across email, web, digital signage, and social media. You will work closely with our Staff UX Designer while providing cross-functional support to the Manager of Brand & Design.

This role is ideal for a collaborative designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in flawless execution.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience in cross-platform brand design.
• Design assets and web pages based on identity standards; strict attention to detail and brand consistency.
• Experience across Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Enthusiasm for production design.

Responsibilities

• Production & asset creation: build and export daily digital assets following brand guidelines.
• Email design: design layouts for marketing emails using templates and custom graphics.
• Web support: create new pages and update existing pages via Figma library and Contentful CMS.
• Lead on branding across third-party web plug-ins.
• Create new web mockups and implement designs for Shop site via Shopify.
• Maintain photography; resize and update assets.
• Digital signage: format and maintain signage templates and visuals.

Skills

Cross-platform brand design

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Detail oriented

Production design

Vendor coordination

Job description

At The Obama Foundation, our mission is to inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world. We seek to build an active democratic culture where people are equipped and motivated to make change in the communities where they live, work, and play. Right here on the South Side of Chicago, we’re building a home for this vision, a global center for change with a range of opportunities - coordinated programming, community outreach events, educational moments, and more - that invite visitors from down the block or across the globe to turn hope into action. Achieving our ambitious goals starts with an exceptional team built on our Hope to Action Values - Courage, Empathy, Integrity, Accountability, Community, Inclusivity, Pragmatism, Resilience, Imagination, and Hope. A Framework that anyone, anywhere, can use to build trust, activate participation, and expand opportunity in their community. Purpose of the Role As the Associate Digital Designer, you will play a key role in supporting the daily digital design and production needs across our organization. Sitting at the intersection of web and brand design, you will work closely with our Staff UX Designer while providing cross-functional support to the Manager of Brand & Design. This role is ideal for a highly collaborative, detail-oriented designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in flawless execution. You will heavily focus on production design support - leveraging established design systems, component libraries, and templates to craft clean, engaging, and on-brand digital assets across email, web, digital signage, and social media.

Core Job Responsibilities

• Production & Asset Creation: Build, adapt, and export daily digital assets (banners, social posts, web graphics, digital signage, and email templates) following established brand guidelines and design systems.
• Email Design: Design visual layouts for marketing emails using existing template libraries as well as custom graphics to embed in layout.
• Web Support: Design new web pages and make updates to existing web pages based on the Figma component library and Contentful CMS.
• Lead on Apply branding across third party web plug-in sites.
• Create new web mockups and execution of new designs for our ecomm Shop site through Shopify.
• Maintain updated photography across websites and lead on identifying selects, resizing and updating photos assets.
• Digital Signage & On-Campus Visuals: Format and maintain digital signage templates, ensuring graphics, announcement slides, and informational displays are clear, visually consistent, and updated on schedule. Update templates for new content types. Design custom digital signage and review partners signage for ad-hoc assets.
• Social Media Design: Produce static graphics for social platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, YouTube) optimized for platform-specific specs and engagement.
• Design System & Library Maintenance: Utilize, organize, and help update component libraries and design tokens in Figma to ensure design consistency and streamlined workflows across teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with writers, marketing leads, and external vendors to prep, package, and deliver digital files.
• Quality Control & Pre-Release Auditing: Maintain rigorous attention to detail - conducting quality checks on visual assets, color accuracy, typography standards, and screen display formats across multiple device sizes.

Required Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience in cross-platform brand design.
• Track record of designing assets and web pages based on an existing identity standards; demonstrated rigorous eye for details and maintaining brand standards.
• Experience across a wide range of design platforms including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Enthusiasm and interest in working on production design.
• Comfortable guiding production work of outside vendors for email and web design.

The salary range for this role is between $59,755 and $74,670.

This is a hybrid role based at the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park. #LI-Hybrid

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Foundation is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. The Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. The Obama Foundation will never ask for payment or personal financial information during the hiring process or training.

At the Obama Foundation, we are guided by a core belief: that ordinary people working together can change history. Our mission is to inspire those people to take action, empower them to change their world for the better, and connect them so they can achieve more together than they can alone. We were founded by community organizers, so when we seek change, we do it by bringing people together. That approach begins at home, on the South Side of Chicago, where we are building the Obama Presidential Center. The Center represents a historic opportunity for Chicago: a chance to build a world-class museum and public gathering space that celebrates our nation’s first African American President and First Lady, steps away from where he began his career, where she was raised, and where—together—they made their home. But that approach extends to all our work, whether it’s holding leadership training sessions in communities throughout the U.S., bringing local leaders together in countries around the world, working to support the global education of girls, or ensuring young men of color have pathways to opportunity. As President Obama has said, "we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together." So join us. For more information, please visit www.obama.org.