Marketing & Graphic Design Specialist (Full-Time, Remote)

Ensemble Performing Arts; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer match

Health, Vision, and Dental benefits

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Ensemble Performing Arts is seeking a creative Marketing & Graphic Design Specialist to support our Marketing team with website graphics, wireframes, and school-level design requests across multiple brands.

You will help maintain brand consistency, create reusable templates, and manage numerous projects with stakeholders while applying accessible, responsive design principles.

Qualifications

• 1–3+ years of professional graphic design or marketing design experience.
• Strong portfolio showing digital design, branding, and web-related work.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, or comparable design tools.
• Experience designing for websites, an understanding of responsive design principles, and familiarity with accessibility best practices.
• Strong typography, layout, color, and visual hierarchy skills.
• Experience creating website wireframes or working alongside web developers.
• Experience supporting a multi-location, franchise, education, or multi-brand organization.
• Experience building templates or scalable design systems, and supporting ongoing campaigns and brand development.

Responsibilities

• Create web graphics and digital assets for Ensemble Performing Arts and its schools, preparing and optimizing files for usability, accessibility, responsive design, and file size.
• Support website builds, redesigns, and ongoing enhancements, including wireframes, page layouts, visual concepts, and design recommendations.
• Fulfill design requests for individual schools, including promotional graphics, flyers, event materials, social graphics, digital ads, and other marketing collateral.
• Adapt established brand systems and templates for each school while preserving its unique identity.
• Support Ensemble-level branding initiatives, campaigns, presentations, and other internal and external creative projects.
• Partner with the Principal Creative/Content Strategist to execute creative concepts and maintain brand consistency.
• Help create and maintain reusable templates, graphics, and design systems that improve efficiency and consistency.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities, from planned initiatives to quick-turn requests, while incorporating feedback from multiple stakeholders and upholding strong design standards.

Skills

Web design

Graphic design

Branding

UI/UX

Wireframes

Design systems

Project management

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Canva

Job description

Marketing & Graphic Design Specialist (Full-Time, Remote)

Remote — United States | Full-Time | $60,000 – $70,000 / year

Ensemble Performing Arts is seeking a creative and adaptable Marketing & Graphic Design Specialist to support our Marketing team across a wide range of design initiatives. Reporting to Marketing Operations and working closely with the Principal Creative/Content Strategist, this role will create website graphics and wireframes, fulfill school-level design requests, support Ensemble brand initiatives, and take on other creative projects across our portfolio of music and dance schools.

This is the right fit for a designer who works comfortably within established brand systems, brings strong visual judgment and fresh ideas, and does well managing a variety of projects across multiple brands and audiences.

Key Responsibilities

Web Design & Digital Assets

• Create web graphics and digital assets for Ensemble Performing Arts and its schools, preparing and optimizing files for usability, accessibility, responsive design, and file size
• Support website builds, redesigns, and ongoing enhancements, including wireframes, page layouts, visual concepts, and design recommendations

School-Level Marketing Support

• Fulfill design requests for individual schools, including promotional graphics, flyers, event materials, social graphics, digital ads, and other marketing collateral
• Adapt established brand systems and templates for each school while preserving its unique identity

Ensemble Brand & Creative Projects

• Support Ensemble-level branding initiatives, campaigns, presentations, and other internal and external creative projects
• Partner with the Principal Creative/Content Strategist to execute creative concepts and maintain brand consistency

Design Systems & Project Management

• Help create and maintain reusable templates, graphics, and design systems that improve efficiency and consistency
• Manage multiple projects and priorities, from planned initiatives to quick-turn requests, while incorporating feedback from multiple stakeholders and upholding strong design standards

Who You Are

• A versatile designer: you move easily between a single school's promotional graphic, a website wireframe, and an Ensemble-wide campaign
• A brand steward: you work confidently within established guidelines and adapt creative for different audiences and sub-brands
• A systems thinker: you build templates and scalable design solutions that help the team do more, more consistently
• A collaborative partner: you take feedback well and work smoothly with both creative and non-creative team members
• Detail-oriented and organized: you juggle multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholders without losing sight of quality

Preferred Qualifications

• 1–3+ years of professional graphic design, marketing design, or related experience
• A strong portfolio showing digital design, branding, marketing collateral, and web-related work
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, or comparable design tools
• Experience designing for websites, an understanding of responsive design principles, and familiarity with accessibility best practices
• Strong typography, layout, color, and visual hierarchy skills
• Experience creating website wireframes or working alongside web developers
• Experience supporting a multi-location, franchise, education, agency, or multi-brand organization
• Experience building templates or scalable design systems, and supporting ongoing campaigns and brand development
• Motion graphics, video editing, illustration, or other complementary creative skills are a plus

The compensation range for this position is $60,000–$70,000 per year, commensurate with experience. A competitive benefits package is provided, including a 401(k) with employer match; health, vision, and dental benefits; and Paid Time-Off.

Diversity is a strength of our community. If you meet most but not all of the qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

About Ensemble Performing Arts

Ensemble Performing Arts is one of the fastest-growing platforms of independently-run performing arts schools and businesses in the United States. We are powered by passionate educators and supported by a team that believes in preserving what makes each school and business unit special. With a multi-state, multi-entity footprint and active M&A pipeline, we are committed to operational excellence and a people-first culture grounded in respect, flexibility, and shared purpose. We offer opportunities for growth and leadership in a fast-scaling organization and a chance to directly shape the look and voice of a mission-driven brand.

Who We Are

Our mission is to empower artists by safeguarding the businesses that love them. Our values include:

• Stewardship: We are caretakers of our performing arts businesses and communities, helping them thrive by making it easy for our teams and educators to cultivate an enriching experience for the students we serve.
• Growth: Our performing arts businesses are integral to our success, and we are committed to their professional growth. As an ever-growing partnership across the performing arts education space, we seek to increase the high-quality resources provided to our businesses and the people who run them.
• Stagehands: Our Shared Services team runs in the background to support our businesses. By doing this, we champion students to be the real stars of the show!

To learn more about Ensemble Performing Arts, visit www.ensembleschools.com.

Ensemble Performing Arts is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status, or genetic information. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with applicable law. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.