Graphic Designer - Wakefield, MA

Virtual•Wakefield, MA

1d•$70,000 - $80,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Graphic Designer who brings strong visual storytelling skills across digital, PowerPoint, and print. This role is ideal for a designer who can translate ideas into compelling, on-brand visuals that engage, inform, and inspire-whether it's a professional presentation material, marketing campaign, or polished print piece. This position will contribute to the creation, implementation, and enhancement of visual materials to support branding and marketing efforts. You'll collaborate closely with marketing, communications, and leadership teams to bring concepts to life and elevate the brand across multiple channels. Responsibilities include designing graphic elements including packaging, developing branding elements, creating logos, and performing image editing. Additional duties include collaborating with internal teams to align designs with company goals, providing strategic direction on visual elements and ensuring consistency across all visual content. Preference for local candidates to work out of our Wakefield, MA office 3 days/week. Here's what you'll do: Design high-impact PowerPoint presentations including executive decks, stakeholder recruitment and informational presentations, and client-facing materials-balancing clarity, storytelling, and visual polish. Create digital assets such as website graphics, social media visuals, email graphics, and digital ads. Design print materials including brochures, one-pagers, reports, signage, and event collateral. Ensure brand consistency across all digital and print touchpoints. Translate complex ideas and content into clean, compelling visual designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand objectives and deliver creative solutions. Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining quality. Prepare final files for digital use and print production (specs, prepress, and vendor coordination as needed). Help manage branding and creative assets and coordinate with multiple external vendors and partners that support our design initiatives. Design and format copy, marketing collateral, social media, and websites for clients. Collaborate with other departments to make sure clients' goals and objectives are met across the board. Understanding of website UX/UI and customer journey/customer flow. Utilize project management tools (Wrike) for project planning from start to finish and ensure collaboration across the team and that tasks/projects are being completed on time. Other duties may be assigned as necessary. As our next Graphic Designer, you will bring: Bachelor's degree and equivalent work experience in graphic design required. 3-5 years of agency or association experience preferred. High level of energy and creativity with a "roll up your sleeves" working style. Experience designing events, conferences, or corporate communications. Familiarity with basic motion graphics or animation. Knowledge of accessibility and presentation best practices. Thinking outside of the box and coming up with new ways to graphically tell a story. Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously in a fast paced, deadline-driven environement. Track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines. Detail-oriented, with strong, effective organizational, problem solving and time-management skills. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Experience with presentation tools (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote). Familiarity with Figma, Sketch, or other design/collaboration tools. The target hiring range for this role is $70,000 - $80,000 USD (annually). The starting base salary will be determined based on skills, experience, location, and other job-related factors. In addition, our total rewards package includes a robust medical, dental, and vision insurance plan (free option available for individuals); generous short- and long-term disability, supplemental life insurance, health care and dependent care, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k) savings match, paid parental leave, financial planning workshops, pre-paid legal plan, discretionary annual bonus and merit increase, and unlimited paid vacation time. About Virtual Inc: Virtual Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquarted in Wakefield, MA. We are more than a professional services firm. We've helped some of the world's leading global membership organizations Make Their Mark on the World. Whether bringing new groups to life or getting existing groups unstuck, we deliver extraordinary results and game-changing growth for our global portfolio of clients; a lineup of who's who of tech leaders, standards trailblazers, certification bodies, open-source powerhouses, and professional societies - many comprised of some of the largest brands in the world. At Virtual, you'll be part of a team that truly lives its values every day - trust, respect, inclusion, innovation, service excellence, empowerment, teamwork, generosity, and fun - and it's why we've been recognized twice as a Best Place to Work.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and equivalent work experience in graphic design required.
High level of energy and creativity with a "roll up your sleeves" working style.
Thinking outside of the box and coming up with new ways to graphically tell a story.
Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously in a fast paced, deadline-driven environement.
Track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines.
Detail-oriented, with strong, effective organizational, problem solving and time-management skills.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
Experience with presentation tools (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote).

Nice To Haves

3-5 years of agency or association experience preferred.
Experience designing events, conferences, or corporate communications.
Familiarity with basic motion graphics or animation.
Knowledge of accessibility and presentation best practices.
Familiarity with Figma, Sketch, or other design/collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

Design high-impact PowerPoint presentations including executive decks, stakeholder recruitment and informational presentations, and client-facing materials-balancing clarity, storytelling, and visual polish.
Create digital assets such as website graphics, social media visuals, email graphics, and digital ads.
Design print materials including brochures, one-pagers, reports, signage, and event collateral.
Ensure brand consistency across all digital and print touchpoints.
Translate complex ideas and content into clean, compelling visual designs.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand objectives and deliver creative solutions.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining quality.
Prepare final files for digital use and print production (specs, prepress, and vendor coordination as needed).
Help manage branding and creative assets and coordinate with multiple external vendors and partners that support our design initiatives.
Design and format copy, marketing collateral, social media, and websites for clients.
Collaborate with other departments to make sure clients' goals and objectives are met across the board.
Understanding of website UX/UI and customer journey/customer flow.
Utilize project management tools (Wrike) for project planning from start to finish and ensure collaboration across the team and that tasks/projects are being completed on time.
Other duties may be assigned as necessary.

Benefits

robust medical, dental, and vision insurance plan (free option available for individuals)
generous short- and long-term disability
supplemental life insurance
health care and dependent care
Flexible Spending Accounts
401(k) savings match
paid parental leave
financial planning workshops
pre-paid legal plan
discretionary annual bonus and merit increase
unlimited paid vacation time