Senior Designer & Art Director

CodeAI • Seattle, WA

3d • $100,800 - $112,000 • Remote

About The Position

As Senior Designer & Art Director, you will bring the CodeAI brand to life through design, visual direction, and creative ideas across its channels. Reporting to the Executive Producer of Creative and Delivery, you will lead the visual presentation of the brand and partner with a copywriter on integrated campaigns of varying sizes. The role emphasizes hands-on design: developing concepts, directing the look of the work, and producing assets for video, social, out-of-home, experiential, and everyday channels. CodeAI has established branding and campaigns in market, and the role focuses on finding fresh ways to express them.

You will own the visual direction of the brand and design much of the work that carries it. This includes setting campaign and channel direction, creating and delivering production-ready materials, directing photo and video work, maintaining and evolving visual brand guidelines, and supporting teams and partners in applying them. You will also present work to leadership and stakeholders, using audience insights and performance data to refine creative work.

CodeAI is an education innovation nonprofit focused on expanding access to artificial intelligence and computer science education for K–12 students, with particular attention to young women and students from underrepresented groups. The position works within a flexible, engaging, remote environment. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, work within the continental United States, pass a pre-employment background check, and be willing to travel at least twice per year for team events.

Requirements

• 8 to 10 years of graphic design and art direction experience, including time at a senior level.
• Portfolio demonstrating hands-on design craft and integrated campaign work, with the candidate's specific role noted for each project.
• Expertise in typography, layout, and composition, with the ability to adapt across visual styles.
• Experience concepting with copywriters and produced campaign work to show.
• Experience art directing photo or video shoots through post-production.
• Experience building or evolving brand guidelines and helping other teams apply them.
• Experience directing the work of other creatives.
• Experience using AI tools in a creative workflow.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• Must work within the continental United States.
• Must pass a pre-employment background check.
• Must be willing to travel at least twice per year for team events.

Nice To Haves

• Agency or design studio experience.
• Experience with education, nonprofit, or mission-driven brands.
• Motion design or video editing skills.

Responsibilities

• Set visual direction for campaigns and channel work, and personally design key pieces such as key visuals, social, email, web, and paid assets.
• Apply strong typography, layout, composition, and color, and carry deliverables through to final, production-ready files.
• Design for motion and platform-native formats, including vertical video and social-first content.
• Create accessible digital work that meets WCAG standards.
• Use AI tools in the design workflow and help the team advance its use of them.
• Concept integrated campaigns with a copywriter from brief through final delivery, translating ideas into visual systems that work across channels.
• Propose new ideas that engage audiences and address brand challenges, including ideas not prompted by a brief.
• Art direct photo and video shoots from shot list through post-production; production partners handle logistics and vendors.
• Direct contract designers and other creatives when engaged, providing clear feedback to improve work quality.
• Own and evolve the visual elements of CodeAI brand guidelines, with final approval held by the Executive Producer.
• Advise CodeAI teams and external partners on applying visual brand guidelines.
• Present work to leadership and stakeholders with strategic reasoning, and use audience insights and performance data to refine it.

Benefits

• Technology subsidy consistent with the Bring Your Own Device environment.
• Flexible, engaging, and remote working environment.
• Five weeks of paid time off: three weeks of annual vacation plus a two-week winter break office closure, as well as sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision premiums paid at 100% for full-time employees and their dependents.
• Option to participate in a 403(b) retirement plan.
• Opportunity to help students learn better and change the face of computer science.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed