Freelance Senior Designer

Nimaroh Creative (Acquired by Idea Peddler); Austin (TX); Sur place; USD 55 104 - 103 320; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Idea Peddler is seeking a freelance Senior Designer to support destination, tourism, hospitality, and place-based marketing initiatives. This hands-on design role requires someone who can both develop and execute creative work and partner with Creative Directors to explore visual territories and produce polished work across multiple channels.

Ideal candidates have 5–7+ years in advertising agency settings, a strong portfolio, and experience with tourism or travel brands.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of advertising agency experience.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating advertising campaign development and execution.
• Experience with tourism, destination marketing, hospitality, hotel, resort, or travel brands.
• Proven ability to create work across digital, print, social, outdoor, presentations, and experiential applications.
• Expert proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat.

Responsabilités

• Designing advertising campaigns and marketing materials.
• Developing visual territories and creative springboards.
• Creating mood boards, inspiration boards, and concept explorations.
• Translating strategic direction into compelling visual solutions.
• Building client‑ready presentations and pitch materials.
• Producing production‑ready files and final deliverables.
• Collaborating closely with Creative Directors, writers, strategists, and account teams.

Connaissances

Advertising campaign development

Portfolio development

Tourism / hospitality branding

Cross-channel production

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Acrobat

Outils

Adobe Creative Cloud

Description du poste

Idea Peddler is seeking a freelance Senior Designer to support destination, tourism, hospitality, and place-based marketing initiatives.

This is a hands‑on design role for someone who can both develop and execute creative work. We look for a designer with strong agency experience who can partner with Creative Directors to explore visual territories, develop campaign concepts, and produce polished, production‑ready creative across multiple channels.

Additional consideration will be given to candidates with direct destination marketing organization (DMO), convention and visitors bureau (CVB), hotel, resort, or tourism industry experience.

Required Experience

• 5–7+ years of advertising agency experience
• Strong portfolio demonstrating advertising campaign development and execution
• Experience working with tourism, destination marketing, hospitality, hotel, resort, attraction, or travel‑related brands
• Proven ability to create work across digital, print, social, outdoor, presentations, and experiential applications
• Expert proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud:
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Acrobat

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing advertising campaigns and marketing materials
• Developing visual territories and creative springboards
• Creating mood boards, inspiration boards, and concept explorations
• Translating strategic direction into compelling visual solutions
• Building client‑ready presentations and pitch materials
• Producing production‑ready files and final deliverables
• Collaborating closely with Creative Directors, writers, strategists, and account teams

Ideal Candidate

• Strong design craft and attention to detail
• Comfortable moving between concept development and execution
• Able to work independently with minimal oversight
• Experienced presenting and discussing creative work
• Curious, collaborative, and capable of abstract thinking
• Able to take a loose strategic direction and quickly turn it into visual possibilities

Portfolio Requirements

Please submit:

• Portfolio website or PDF
• 3–5 examples of advertising campaign work
• Examples of both conceptual exploration and final execution
• Brief explanation of your role on each project