Senior Graphic Designer

What is the Role?

Intersection is seeking a Senior Graphic Designer to help shape and express our brand across every touchpoint. This role will serve as a key steward of the Intersection sales narrative, translating strategy into compelling creative work that inspires clients, engages audiences, and elevates our market presence.

This is a highly collaborative role for a concept-driven creative who combines strong design craft with strategic thinking. You'll partner closely with marketing, sales, and sales leadership to bring our story to life through brand campaigns, visual storytelling, presentations, video, experiential moments, and client-facing creative.

This role requires a versatile creative who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can seamlessly move between concept development, brand strategy, video production, sales storytelling, and design execution.

This role is based in our Chicago office on a hybrid schedule, requiring you to work in-office Tuesday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work from home on Mondays and Fridays. This role reports directly to the Senior Marketing Manager in Chicago.

In the first three months, you will

• Gain a deep understanding of Intersection's diverse media products, audiences, and brand positioning.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, and Leadership to understand business priorities and creative opportunities.
• Begin developing strategic spec art and conceptual creative that supports active sales opportunities and showcases the power of Intersection's media platform.

Within the first year, you will

• Become a trusted creative partner across the organization, helping teams translate business goals into compelling creative solutions.
• Lead creative ideation and brainstorming sessions for internal stakeholders and key clients, bringing narrative-driven thinking and fresh perspectives to the table.
• Strategically align design projects with business goals, ensuring that key initiatives contribute to the overall success and growth of the company
• Develop a robust library of brand assets, video content, presentations, and conceptual creative that elevates how Intersection presents itself to the market.
• Introduce new creative tools, technologies, and workflows that improve both efficiency and creative quality.

You're a great fit for this role because

• You have a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Visual Communications, Video Production, or a related creative field.
• You have 5-7+ years of relevant creative experience, ideally within an advertising agency, media company, publisher, brand studio, or fast-paced in-house creative team.
• You are a passionate and highly skilled designer, with an exceptional sense of layout, typography, color theory, and composition
• You have a portfolio that demonstrates both excellent creative execution and strong conceptual thinking across multiple mediums.
• You are a visual storyteller who can translate business objectives into compelling creative ideas and experiences.
• You have demonstrated leadership abilities, with a track record of successfully leading design projects and mentoring junior designers
• You have advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as experience working within Google Workspace tools.
• You are comfortable meeting with clients to understand their needs, gather detailed briefs, and provide expert guidance throughout the design process
• You are highly organized, dependable, and able to manage multiple priorities while consistently delivering high-quality work on deadline.
• You bring curiosity, initiative, and a desire to continuously improve both the work and the way it's made.
• You have hands-on experience integrating modern AI creative tools (Gemini, Photoshop AI, Claude, etc) into rapid concepting, moodboarding, and high-fidelity mockups.

Note: In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must submit an up-to-date online portfolio featuring work samples that demonstrate strong graphic design, branding, motion graphics, and video production capabilities.

Total Compensation: $80,000 - 90,000

Hybrid Work Policy: Our team operates on a hybrid schedule to balance flexibility with face-to-face collaboration. We require all employees to be in the office every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely the remainder of the week

At Intersection we celebrate every voice that makes us unique and every perspective that makes us grow. It's our shared responsibility to create an equitable environment where every employee contributes to the culture of the company. Our products and offerings impact cities across the world and it's our goal to represent the diversity and differences that make cities special. We will be relentless in that pursuit, because together we are better.

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