Freelance Senior Designer

Idea PeddlerAustin, TX

About The Position

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 are looking 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.

Requirements

  • 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

Nice To Haves

  • Direct destination marketing organization (DMO), convention and visitors bureau (CVB), hotel, resort, or tourism industry experience
  • 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

Responsibilities

  • 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
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