Senior Designer

Vox Media, LLC • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As the Senior Designer for Podcasting at Vox Media, you will personally lead branding and design for one of the fastest growing networks in the industry, helping us elevate our design work to meet the high bar set by the content itself. In this job you’ll ultimately be responsible for making sure all consumer-facing design work from our network is strategic, eye-catching and effective. That will mean personally developing the show branding for our highest priority new shows and projects, creating key visual assets for launch like tile artwork, social assets, YouTube thumbnails and brand guidelines, and selling that work in to key stakeholders. You’ll support on special projects like live events, network branding, media design for ad products, and web projects, providing direction and feedback to our growing team of freelancers in their visual design work. And you’ll also act as our visual tastemaker for the network, advising on visual assets and best practices for our production, event and marketing teams. Our ideal candidate is a designer who is adaptable, experimental, organized, thoughtful and curious; someone who will take the time to understand the podcast landscape, learn its visual conventions, and decide which ones to blow up. This person should have modern tastes but should also be able to stretch across a range of genres and styles, from sports to business and tech to culture and back again, driving us to push the boundaries of what’s possible in each.

Requirements

• Superb design taste and a high bar for creative quality
• 7+ years of design and branding experience experience, preferably in YouTube, podcasts or similar media
• A flexible approach to design that can adapt to different genres, audience targets, and tones
• Experience guiding the work of other designers and creative partners
• Comfort leading creative reviews with multiple stakeholders, including podcast hosts and talent
• Strong communication, organizational and time-management skills
• A proven ability to manage and prioritize work and time across multiple projects
• Awareness of what media competitors are doing in this space

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience creating branding for podcasts or YouTube a plus

Responsibilities

• Personally create branding and key launch assets for our highest priority new shows, including hero artwork, YouTube assets and social graphics
• Vet, manage and provide feedback to a range of freelance designers, photographers and other creatives, ensuring they’re meeting our quality standards and adhering to best practices
• Present and “sell” design work to talent, leadership and external stakeholders when needed, showing our strategic thinking and expertise
• Plan and oversee the creative process for talent photoshoots
• Lead,oversee, and project manage the design work for special projects like our podcast website redesign or live events, with support from contractors/freelancers as needed
• Develop and maintain templates and best practices for key assets like YouTube thumbnails, tile artwork, social assets, etc
• Provide visual direction and feedback on key visual aspects of new show launches, including set design and motion graphics
• Assist with occasional timely, one-off requests like thumbnails, unique in-episode graphics and special promotional assets

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees