Digital Designer
Creates digital assets (websites, emails, landing pages, video, and branded materials) using UX/UI principles and AI tools to enhance user engagement and workflow efficiency for a media company.
- Compensation
- $65K–$85K / yr
- Location
- New York Metro, NY
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5-7 years of design experience in-house, agency, or freelance environments
- Strong portfolio demonstrating digital design, marketing campaigns, and visual problem-solving
- Understanding of UX/UI principles, responsive design, and digital best practices
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign
- Comfortable using AI tools to generate ideas, accelerate production, and improve workflows
- Strong attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy, consistency, and high-quality deliverables
- Organized and able to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset
Nice to have
- Experience working with AI tools such as Lovable and Canva
- Basic HTML knowledge
- Video editing or motion graphics experience
Full description
Job Type: Full Time, Remote (East Coast Preferred)
Salary: $70,000 - $85,000
Ragan Communications is seeking a digital-first designer with hands-on experience creating engaging, user-friendly digital experiences to join our creative team.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in digital design, web design, and visual storytelling who understands how smart design can drive engagement, improve user experiences, and support business goals. You’ll bring experience creating digital assets across websites, emails, landing pages, marketing campaigns, video, and AI-powered workflows, while also supporting presentations, reports, event materials, and other branded assets across the company.
We’re looking for someone who is curious, motivated, and excited to help push our creative work forward. The ideal candidate stays current with digital design trends, emerging tools, and AI-enabled workflows, and is eager to bring fresh ideas and modern design approaches to the team.
What You'll Do
- Design digital assets including websites, emails, landing pages, banners and marketing campaigns
- Apply UX/UI best practices to create user-friendly and engaging digital experiences
- Create presentations, reports and branded materials using Adobe InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint and AI-powered tools that improve efficiency and workflow
- Assist with design, print production and layout projects, including reports, signage, event materials and other branded collateral
- Produce video, motion graphics and training content as needed
- Use tools such as Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Lovable and AI platforms to enhance creative output, improve efficiencies and support digital innovation
- Develop creative assets supporting conferences, awards, memberships, training programs, research launches and subscription products
- Contribute to projects from concept through execution, helping turn ideas into effective creative solutions
- Bring fresh ideas, design inspiration and emerging AI trends to the team
- Partner closely with the Creative Director on projects across digital, print and experiential channels
What We're Looking For
- 5-7 years of design experience in-house, agency or freelance environments
- Strong portfolio demonstrating digital design, marketing campaigns and visual problem solving
- Understanding of UX/UI principles, responsive design and digital best practices
- Strong attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy, consistency and high-quality deliverables
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and presentation tools
- Comfortable using AI tools to generate ideas, accelerate production and improve workflows