Ballotpedia seeks a 100% remote, full-time Junior Graphic Designer to join its Communications department. Reporting to the Director of Communications, the Junior Graphic Designer will create engaging visuals for Ballotpedia’s platforms.
We’re looking for a talented junior graphic designer who can take concepts and ideas and create visual representations, in both print and digital media. Your graphics should capture the attention of those who see them and communicate the right message.
You’re creative, tech-savvy and deadline-oriented, with a strong ability to translate requirements into design, and to communicate and work methodically as part of a collaborative team.
Responsibilities
- Create engaging visuals for Ballotpedia, including designs for our website, social media, email marketing, presentations, and print materials
- Work with team members across Ballotpedia to ensure designs align with project goals and Ballotpedia branding
- Make changes to designs based on feedback from team members, including making design templates for recurring projects
- Manage Ballotpedia’s graphic design asset management, including maintaining and updating our brand style guide and Ballotpedia’s digital asset management tool (DAM)
- Develop and manage graphic design-related processes and workflows
- Stay in tune with emerging trends in graphic design, making recommendations for improving Ballotpedia’s design approach
- Handle miscellaneous, ad hoc tasks as needed to support the team and organization
Qualifications
An ideal Junior Graphic Designer will have:
- A demonstrated passion for Ballotpedia’s mission
- Bachelor’s degree, or associate degree with additional equivalent experience, in Graphic Design or related field
- 1-2 years of demonstrated graphic design experience
- Proficiency with PowerPoint and/or Google Slides, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Canva. Knowledge of WordPress and Asana is a plus
- A keen eye for aesthetics and details
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to work collaboratively with team members within and outside of your core department
- Strong task and time management skills with ability to work methodically on multiple design projects at once and meet deadlines
Environment
The Junior Graphic Designer will work remotely from their home location. All Ballotpedia staff work remotely. To join Ballotpedia, you must have a computer with internet access. Ballotpedia uses Google Suite (Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, and more), Slack, and Asana to accomplish our goals. Working familiarity and/or experience with these or similar platforms is highly desirable.
Ballotpedia has a flexible work environment, BP Flex, in which every employee enjoys unlimited vacation and flexibility in scheduling. Each employee will be oriented to the principles of Ballotpedia’s flexible environment during new employee training.
Compensation
The starting pay range for the Junior Graphic Designer is $50,000-$55,000 and will be commensurate with experience.
In addition to salary, Ballotpedia offers performance bonuses and a $8,000 annual benefits stipend, which can be used to pay for a full benefits package, including health, vision, and dental insurance; retirement accounts; and more. If benefits are not elected, the $8,000 stipend is treated as regular income and added to salary.
To Apply
To apply, click on ‘Apply for this job’ below and fill out the form.
Please attach the following in PDF format:
- Résumé
- Cover letter detailing your interest in Ballotpedia’s mission and this position
- Link to relevant graphic design portfolio
Please ensure that either your résumé or cover letter includes your current address. Applications without addresses will not be accepted.
Please note that if you are hired for this position, Ballotpedia participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Ballotpedia is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9. For more information on E-Verify, or if you believe that your employer has violated its E-Verify responsibilities, please contact DHS.
About Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia is a collaborative team of fast learners and creative problem solvers who are eager to work hard to make the world a better place. We believe the world will be a better place if every citizen has access to information to make informed decisions about their vote in every election in which they are eligible to vote: primary, general, and special elections; federal, state, and local offices.
We work diligently to present the available information about elections, candidates, judges, ballot measures, policies, and more in a way that enables our readers to vote with confidence and to act as engaged citizens outside of the polling booth.
Ballotpedia readers, like Ballotpedia staff, are special people.
When we launched in 2007, we did not go out of our way to seek new readers. Starting with our small team of visionary idealists, nerds, and aspiring political journalists, we just wrote the best unbiased online articles we could, especially about ballot measures. Readers found those articles in droves. It turns out there was an unclaimed audience out there-people who wanted straightforward facts about political issues, and were willing to read at length instead of just scanning the headlines.
“If you build it, they will come:” our readers came to our neutral oasis in growing numbers; we’ve had many millions of lifetime pageviews, we reached nearly half of all voters in 2020, and, in the month surrounding the November 2020 election, we were the 77th most-visited website in the U.S.
We’ve come to realize that we need to meet our readers where they are. In doing so, over the past five years, we’ve grown our email newsletter program from infancy to include more than 3,000,000 opt-in subscribers with more than a dozen newsletters to choose from. We are working in numerous ways to help put our neutral information in front of people at the times when they most need it, including on mobile phones while you’re standing in the voting booth. We firmly believe that our readers, and the mindset we help them cultivate, are essential in a world where too many others are fighting to get us all addicted to sensational posts and the irrational decisions they foster.
If this is a mission you’d be willing to work hard to achieve, and if this is a team you’d be willing to work hard with-JOIN US.