Reporting to the Senior Creative Director within the Brand Marketing & Events pod of the Revenue Design team, the Senior Designer will collaborate with events and marketing project leads to create elevated design work for brand-led events and immersive experiences across iconic lifestyle brands including Better Homes & Gardens , Real Simple , and Southern Living .
This position supports the full event creative ecosystem, from magazine/in-book advertising and promotional marketing to social, digital, presentation, environmental, and on-site event materials. The ideal candidate brings a strong editorial design sensibility, refined typography, production-ready execution, and the ability to translate premium lifestyle brand identities consistently across every event-related audience touchpoint.
- Design high-quality creative assets across brand marketing, advertiser programs, and experiential initiatives, including:
- Develop promotional creative across print, digital, social, and email channels to support brand-led events, integrated marketing campaigns, advertiser programs, and audience engagement initiatives.
- Partner with the Creative Director to shape creative concepts, briefs, mood boards, visual storytelling presentations, and design systems for internal stakeholders, brand teams, sales/marketing partners, and event initiatives.
- Create and maintain scalable brand assets, templates, print collateral, and campaign toolkits across multiple brands while ensuring consistency with established brand standards and visual identities.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Creative, Events, Marketing, Editorial, Brand, and Sales teams to align on creative direction, project priorities, timelines, production needs, and execution strategies.
- Lead high-impact presentation design projects utilizing advanced visual storytelling techniques, including animation, motion builds, diagrams, infographics, templates, and visual data communication.
- Prepare files for print, digital, social, and experiential production, ensuring accuracy, consistency, technical precision, and vendor-ready execution.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining exceptional attention to detail, organization, and high creative standards.
Bachelor’s degree in Design or related field; or equivalent training and/or experience.
- 7–10 years of professional design experience, ideally within a magazine, media, publishing, lifestyle, retail, or brand marketing organization.
- Experience designing for magazine/in-book advertising, branded content, marketing campaigns, social promotion, and/or experiential events strongly preferred.
- Strong editorial design sensibility with highly refined typography, layout, pacing, and visual composition skills
- Deep understanding of magazine/in-book advertising, print production, mechanicals, file preparation, color management, and vendor-ready print execution
- Ability to translate premium lifestyle brand identities across print, digital, social, presentation, and experiential touchpoints
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop; Figma experience a plus
- Strong presentation design skills with proficiency in Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Keynote
- Experience designing social and digital promotional assets, including campaign extensions, paid/organic social, email, and web/microsite creative
- Understanding of experiential event design needs, including signage, environmental graphics, stage visuals, screen content, activations, and on-site brand moments
- Exceptional attention to detail with a commitment to consistency, accuracy, and brand standards
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across creative, marketing, editorial, sales, brand, and events teams
- Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, shifting timelines, and tight deadlines
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume environment while maintaining polished, brand-right creative output
- Self-motivated and resourceful, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team setting