TED is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility, and catalyze impact. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder, and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda.
We seek:
- Curious learners: Individuals seeking meaning, growth, and understanding in a complex world
- Builders and creators: People developing ideas, culture, and communities that advance human progress
- Connectors and conveners: Leaders, educators, and community builders who bring others together around ideas.
Through talks, media, convenings, learning experiences, and industry-leading storytelling, TED influences how millions around the world think, learn, and engage.
About TED Brand Creative:
The TED Brand Creative team is passionate about TED’s content and the prospect of creating a stronger platform to enable the exchange of ideas worldwide. We’re endlessly curious. As part of the larger Media and Curation team, we’re focused on delivering the best experiences possible across a wide range of platforms – our annual conferences, our editorial channels, our global distribution efforts, new content formats, and much more.
As a multi-disciplined creative, you are a highly conceptual visual thinker and detailed in the execution of ideas, from cradle to completion. You're capable of creating gorgeous, innovative work, but you can think strategically, scaling ideas holistically across a diverse range of applications and platforms. You know how to build a brand system and how to break new ground within one. You've created work for both digital and print, and you understand what it takes to bring a design all the way through to production. You have a strong command of typography, color, and composition, and you integrate photography and visual storytelling naturally into your work. TED is a seriously collaborative environment — you're ready to lead as the visionary on a project and assist a teammate in the execution of theirs. No task is too big or too small. You are committed to the health of the team as a whole. This position reports to the Design Director.
Role and responsibilities:
- Fluently work within TED Brand Creative's concept-focused and strategic-minded design process
- Create impactful and thoughtful concepts, experiences, designs, and identities that bring the TED brand and its numerous products and initiatives to life across a wide range of touchpoints
- Design at an extremely high level and provide a strong creative point of view
- Concept and execute identities and brand systems for original video series, podcasts, conferences, and initiatives
- Extend design systems for events to cover environmental graphics, books, stage design, digital marketing, social media, screen environments, templated signage, merch and more
- Create original artworks for TED's editorial channels
- Own print production from layout through vendor handoff — including large-format signage, conference materials, and print-ready files
- Present designs and concepts with clarity and conviction
- Seek out, receive, and apply feedback in order to push your and the team’s work further — and know how to provide constructive feedback to other team members
We're looking for someone with:
- 3+ years of graphic design experience
- NYC-based preferred. TED is headquartered in New York City.
- A broad range of interests. You live and breathe graphic design but bring other skills to the table — illustration, motion, photography, 3D, other creative endeavors valued
- Expert fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud, with working knowledge of designing for print — InDesign and Photoshop especially. You can prep files and work with vendors to get the output right. If you're still building this print muscle, you’re able to learn fast and own it
- Expertise in Figma is a must — and working knowledge of digital design systems a significant plus
- Experience designing marketing assets — email, social, display, web — is also a plus
- Strong organizational skills, from concept through delivery of mechanicals
- Flexibility. TED is a fast-paced environment, and we jump quickly from project to project. You can keep up and thrive off the energy of working on something new.
- A deeply curious mind. You are culturally engaged and proactively exploring new technologies and trends within the design world
Salary Range: $75,000.00 - $83,000.00
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
- Flexible/hybrid work
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible paid time off and holiday schedule
- 401(k) with company match
TED Conferences LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We invite all qualified candidates to apply online with their resume and cover letter.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of graphic design experience
- Expert fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud
- Working knowledge of print production and ability to prep files and work with vendors (InDesign, Photoshop)
- Expertise in Figma
- Strong organizational skills from concept through delivery of mechanicals
- Flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment and manage shifting projects
- A deeply curious, culturally engaged mindset and willingness to explore new trends and technologies
- NYC-based (preferred)
- Broad creative skills such as illustration, motion, photography, or 3D (valued)
- Working knowledge of digital design systems (significant plus)
- Experience designing marketing assets (email, social, display, web) (plus)
What We Do
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world. TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long. In fact, everything we do — from our TED Talks videos to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from the global TEDx community to the TED-Ed lesson series — is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas?
