Senior Designer, Brand Marketing

Position Overview

Boston Globe Media is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Designer, Brand Marketing to lead design initiatives and support marketing activations across its portfolio—including The Boston Globe, Boston.com, and Boston Magazine. Reporting to the Creative Director on the Brand Marketing team, the role is central to elevating the company’s brand identity through creative concepts that drive awareness, engagement, subscriptions, and loyalty. The ideal candidate brings strong design skills, creative concepting, and visual storytelling experience in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Creative Director, Brand Marketing to ideate and design integrated campaigns that increase awareness, engagement, subscriptions, and loyalty.
• Provide design support for brand campaigns, events, partnerships, sales collateral, and digital activations.
• Contribute to brainstorming sessions and translate marketing strategies into compelling visual storytelling.
• Execute creative deliverables across multiple channels including digital, social, and print.
• Perform photo editing and retouching to ensure all assets are visually polished and on-brand.
• Manage multiple design projects while collaborating with internal stakeholders and maintaining organized design files.
• Uphold and evolve the visual identity of Boston Globe Media properties, delivering creative solutions on time and within budget.
• Present creative concepts and campaign work to leadership and cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in an agency or in-house design setting.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and other relevant design tools.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a strong sense of typography, layout, and visual storytelling.
• Proven ability to deliver successful creative solutions across print, digital, social, and environmental design.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience presenting creative concepts.
• Digital Portfolio for Review is required.
• A willingness to adapt, be audience-focused, and commit to creating an inclusive work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across multiple brands or within a media organization.
• Experience working in video production.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: $70,000 - $90,000 annual salary.
• Convenient downtown Boston location near Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market with accessible MBTA and commuter rail lines.