Brand & Web Designer (Associate) — Production

obama; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Obama Foundation is seeking an Associate Digital Designer to support daily digital design across the organization. You will work at the intersection of web and brand design, collaborating closely with the Staff UX Designer and the Manager of Brand & Design to deliver assets and updates.

You will craft web pages, emails, social graphics, and digital signage, ensuring brand consistency and production quality.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience in cross-platform brand design.
• Track record of designing assets and web pages based on an existing identity standards.
• Experience across 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.

Responsibilities

• Production & Asset Creation: Build, adapt, and export daily digital assets following brand guidelines and design systems.
• Email Design: Design visual layouts for marketing emails using template libraries and custom graphics.
• Web Support: Design new web pages and update existing pages based on the Figma library and Contentful CMS.
• Lead on Apply branding across third party web plug-in sites.
• Create new web mockups and execute new designs for our ecomm Shop site through Shopify.
• Maintain updated photography across websites and lead on updating photos assets.
• Digital Signage & On-Campus Visuals: Format and maintain signage templates and update content.
• Social Media Design: Produce static graphics for social platforms optimized for specs.
• Design System & Library Maintenance: Update component libraries and design tokens in Figma.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with writers, marketing leads, and vendors to deliver digital files.
• Quality Control & Pre-Release Auditing: Conduct quality checks on assets across devices.

Skills

Brand design

Asset production

Cross-platform design

Vendor coordination

Production design

Attention to detail

Enthusiasm for production

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

The Obama Foundation is seeking an Associate Digital Designer to support daily digital design across the organization. You will work at the intersection of web and brand design, collaborating closely with the Staff UX Designer and the Manager of Brand & Design to deliver assets and updates.

You will craft web pages, emails, social graphics, and digital signage, ensuring brand consistency and production quality.