Visual Designer

White Tie Productions; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care subsidy

Cell phone stipend

Personal travel reimbursement

Job summary

White Tie Productions in Phoenix, AZ is seeking an experienced designer who can study a brand and build a distinct visual world for each show, collaborating with Creative and A/V teams to extend graphics across large-format screens and event assets.

You should understand how designs translate into motion and create layered artwork for animators, with a focus on typography and detail. This role offers opportunities to support live events and shoots while maintaining production timelines.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating typography, composition, image treatment, and visual storytelling.
• Strong Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills.
• Understanding how good still designs translate into motion.
• Experience creating entertainment or live-event branded graphics.

Responsibilities

• Translate brand guidelines into still visuals using Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Develop key art, title treatments, textures, and typography systems.
• Design graphics with animation, transitions, and screen environments in mind.
• Create organized, editable project files and layered assets for the Creative Team.
• Collaborate during brainstorms, design reviews, and concept development.
• Present ideas and explain design decisions clearly.
• Balance ambitious ideas with production timelines and technical requirements.
• Support live events and video shoots when needed.

Skills

Typography

Image treatment

Visual storytelling

Layout & composition

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Adobe InDesign

Cinema 4D

Blender

Job description

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced designer who can study and absorb a brand, understand the creative objective, brainstorm with a team, then build a distinct visual world around it for each show.

You will collaborate with our Creative and A/V Production teams to develop graphic content that can extend across large-format screens, support event scenic environments, and other event assets.

Much of the work will eventually be translated into motion. You do not need to be the primary motion designer. You should understand how designs imapct motion and create layered, intentional artwork that gives animators strong material to work with.

What You'll Do

• Translate brand guidelines in tandem with creative conversations into still visuals (within programs like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop).
• Develop key art, style still frames, title treatments, backgrounds, textures, typography systems, and image treatments.
• Design graphics with animation, transitions, screen environments, and visual continuity in mind.
• Create organized, editable project files and layered assets that can be easily adapted, revised, and shared across the Creative Team (we love us some vector files).
• Collaborate actively during brainstorms, design reviews, and early concept development.
• Present ideas clearly and explain the thinking behind design decisions.
• Balance ambitious creative ideas with production timelines and technical requirements.
• Opportunities to support live events and video shoots.

Where + When

• Based in Phoenix, AZ (HQ)
• Primarily in-office, with potential (not guaranteed) hybrid flexibility
• Standard hours: Mon-Fri, 9AM-5PM
• Hours flex with project demands

Compensation + Benefits Package

• Annual Salary paid bi-weekly
• Subsidized Health Care (75% of Employee Premium paid by WTP)
• Cell Phone Stipend ($50 Monthly)
• Personal Travel Reimbursement ($500 Annually)

What We're Looking For:

• A portfolio demonstrating strong typography, composition, image treatment, and visual storytelling.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• An understanding of how good still designs translate into motion.
• Experience creating entertainment, event, or other high-energy branded graphics.
• Strong file organization and attention to detail.
• The confidence to communicate, ask questions, offer ideas, and participate in collaborative brainstorms.
• Reliability, follow-through, and the ability to work efficiently within real production timelines while maintaining strong design judgment.
• A team-first mindset with the ability to execute independently.

Required Technical Skills

• Adobe Illustrator - intermediate to advanced proficiency
• Adobe Photoshop - intermediate to advanced proficiency

Preferred Technical Skills

• Adobe After Effects, for motion awareness and occasional animation.
• Adobe InDesign, particularly for printwork.
• Cinema 4D, Blender, or another 3D platform.

What to Submit

• A portfolio showing relevant visual design work. Sports, entertainment, live-event, broadcast, campaign, or motion-oriented projects are especially helpful.
• A brief explanation of your role on collaborative projects, including what you designed and what was animated or produced by others.
• Your resume and availability.
• Optional: a short note about the kinds of projects, visual styles, or creative problems you most enjoy.

The Fine Print

White Tie Productions is an at-will employer. We're committed to building a team of great people from all backgrounds. White Tie Productions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law - just on whether you can make awesome work happen every day.