Associate Digital Designer

At The Obama Foundation, our mission is to inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world.  We seek to build an active democratic culture where people are equipped and motivated to make change in the communities where they live, work, and play. Right here on the South Side of Chicago, we’re building a home for this vision, a global center for change with a range of opportunities - coordinated programming, community outreach events, educational moments, and more - that invite visitors from down the block or across the globe to turn hope into action.

Achieving our ambitious goals starts with an exceptional team built on our Hope to Action Values - Courage, Empathy, Integrity, Accountability, Community, Inclusivity, Pragmatism, Resilience, Imagination, and Hope. A Framework that anyone, anywhere, can use to build trust, activate participation, and expand opportunity in their community.

Purpose of the RoleAs the Associate Digital Designer, you will play a key role in supporting the daily digital design and production needs across our organization. Sitting at the intersection of web and brand design, you will work closely with our Staff UX Designer while providing cross-functional support to the Manager of Brand & Design.
This role is ideal for a highly collaborative, detail-oriented designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in flawless execution. You will heavily focus on production design support - leveraging established design systems, component libraries, and templates to craft clean, engaging, and on-brand digital assets across email, web, digital signage, and social media.

Core Job Responsibilities

• Production & Asset Creation: Build, adapt, and export daily digital assets (banners, social posts, web graphics, digital signage, and email templates) following established brand guidelines and design systems.

• Email Design: Design visual layouts for marketing emails using existing template libraries as well as custom graphics to embed in layout. 

• Web Support:

  • Design new web pages and make updates to existing web pages based on the Figma component library and Contentful CMS.

  • Lead on Apply branding across third party web plug-in sites. 

  • Create new web mockups and execution of new designs for our ecomm Shop site through Shopify. 

  • Maintain updated photography across websites and lead on identifying selects, resizing and updating photos assets.

• Digital Signage & On-Campus Visuals: Format and maintain digital signage templates, ensuring graphics, announcement slides, and informational displays are clear, visually consistent, and updated on schedule. Update templates for new content types. Design custom digital signage and review partners signage for ad-hoc assets.

• Social Media Design: Produce static graphics for social platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, YouTube) optimized for platform-specific specs and engagement.

• Design System & Library Maintenance: Utilize, organize, and help update component libraries and design tokens in Figma to ensure design consistency and streamlined workflows across teams.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with writers, marketing leads, and external vendors to prep, package, and deliver digital files.

• Quality Control & Pre-Release Auditing: Maintain rigorous attention to detail - conducting quality checks on visual assets, color accuracy, typography standards, and screen display formats across multiple device sizes.

Required Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience in cross-platform brand design

• Track record of designing assets and web pages based on an existing identity standards; demonstrated rigorous eye for details and maintaining brand standards

• Experience across a wide range of design platforms including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite

• Enthusiasm and interest in working on production design

• Comfortable guiding production work of outside vendors for email and web design

The salary range for this role is between $59,755  and $74,670. 

This is a hybrid role based at the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park. 

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Don’t check off every box in the requirements listed above? Please apply anyway! If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Foundation is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. The Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at [email protected] if you require a reasonable accommodation to complete this application.