CommonSail Investment Group
Graphic Designer
About the Role
As a Graphic Designer, you'll be the visual voice behind our brand to help tell our story. You’ll conceptualize, design, and produce engaging content across a variety of formats including print ads, flyers, brochures, social media ads, and more. You’ll collaborate with creative, like-minded individuals, as well as marketing leaders and project managers, to translate ideas into compelling creative executions that drive engagement and communicate our message with style and clarity.
Key Responsibilities
Your role will be dynamic and creative, requiring both a strategic mindset and a designer’s eye for detail. You'll manage multiple content initiatives at once, executing visual elements from start to finish. Your work will have a direct impact on how people experience our brand and services.
- Design and produce visual assets for print, campaigns, websites, email, and social media ads.
- Develop on-brand creative concepts that align with campaign goals and audience needs.
- Interpret briefs and come up with creative approaches, offering multiple concepts and iterations when needed.
- Work closely with copywriters, marketing leaders, and other creatives to bring campaigns to life.
- Present concepts and creative solutions to key stakeholders when necessary.
- Coordinating with agencies, printers and partners as needed.
- Maintain brand consistency across all content while evolving the visual identity as needed.
- Participate in brainstorming and creative planning sessions.
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a design-focused field like Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts (BFA)
- 2+ years of experience in graphic design, multimedia, or a related field.
- Strong portfolio showing a mix of print, digital and social.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
- Strong visual storytelling skills and attention to detail.
- Understanding of social media trends, formats, and best practices.
- Ability to manage feedback and adapt quickly to shifting priorities.
- Bonus:
- Knowledge of Canva
- Knowledge of Monday
- Familiarity with performance marketing metrics and designing for conversion.
- Experience working in marketing or with brand teams.
- Experience in capturing and editing photography and video.
General Working Conditions:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively with others, sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle keyboard, telephone, and other equipment and objects. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to review detailed documents and read computer screens.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts, or a related design-focused field
- At least 2 years of experience in graphic design, multimedia, or a related field
- Strong portfolio demonstrating print, digital, and social media design
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Strong visual storytelling skills and attention to detail
- Understanding of social media trends, formats, and best practices
- Ability to manage feedback and adapt to shifting priorities
- Knowledge of Canva
- Knowledge of Monday
- Familiarity with performance marketing metrics and conversion-focused design
- Experience working in marketing or with brand teams
- Experience capturing and editing photography and video
What We Do
Common Sail Investment Group (CSIG) is a privately owned and operated holding company based in Brighton, Michigan. Our philosophy of making the most out of every minute of every day, is infused throughout our operations. In fact, our passion for what we do is noticeable in everything we do. We serve and support our businesses with a unique shared services model that allows them to focus on their core business by centralizing all other necessary business functions including: Employee Experience, Financial, Implementation, Legal, Marketing, Operations, Performance, Project Management, Research, Strategy and Technology. Not Just Making Every Day Great. Making Every Minute Great. There are 1,440 minutes in every single day. We aspire to make each one of them an exceptional moment. This philosophy is supported by our 6 powerful, yet simple pillars: Dream Big, Have Courage, Take Initiative, Be Accountable, Give Back & Enjoy it. We strive to fulfill the aspirational yet unattainable goal of creating the absolute best experience with every person, in every interaction, every minute of every day. It begins with empowering our employees. Every employee, at every level of the company, is expected to perform like a leader. Everyone is encouraged and expected to put the needs of each other above everything else. No one here just “does their job” The mission is to create the absolute best experiences. This emphasis on putting people first has helped us successfully grow for the right reasons. Our environment attracts dreamers, adventurers, creators, givers and believers to seek career opportunities with us. We find people who believe that true happiness is only found in the service of others. We want high-performers with diverse skill sets and big hearts.
