Hearst Midwest
Bring Ideas to Life. Create Work That Makes an Impact.At Hearst Newspapers, we're transforming how local businesses connect with their communities. We're looking for a talented, creative Graphic Designer to join our Midwest Creative Services team—someone who thrives on bringing ideas to life through compelling visual storytelling across print and digital platforms.
If you're passionate about great design, enjoy collaborating with a variety of teams, and love balancing creativity with strategy, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll DoAs a Graphic Designer, you'll create engaging marketing materials that help businesses grow and support Hearst's award-winning brands. Every day is different—you might be designing a digital campaign, creating a print advertisement, developing promotional materials, or collaborating with Sales and Marketing to bring a client's vision to life.
You'll:
- Design high-quality print and digital marketing materials, including advertisements, brochures, direct mail, presentations, signage, social media graphics, and promotional campaigns.
- Create production-ready files that meet print and digital specifications.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Production, Editorial, and other internal teams to develop creative solutions that achieve business goals.
- Work directly with internal stakeholders—and occasionally clients—to understand project objectives and deliver exceptional creative work.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining outstanding attention to detail and meeting deadlines.
- Contribute ideas that improve creative quality, workflows, and team collaboration.
You're naturally creative, organized, and curious. You enjoy solving problems through design and take pride in producing polished work that exceeds expectations. You're comfortable juggling multiple priorities and understand that great communication is just as important as great design.
We're looking for someone who has:
- Experience designing for both print and digital media.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop).
- A solid understanding of typography, layout, branding, color theory, and print production.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- A customer-focused mindset and a passion for delivering exceptional work.
- Experience working directly with clients or customers.
- Knowledge of print production processes and file preparation.
- A passion for learning new design trends, software, and creative techniques.
At Hearst Newspapers, we believe technology empowers creativity.
Through our exclusive ChatGPT Enterprise partnership and growing portfolio of AI-powered tools, our designers use AI to streamline workflows, generate creative concepts, organize ideas, improve copy, and accelerate routine tasks—giving you more time to focus on what matters most: creating exceptional work.
We're looking for someone who's excited to explore how emerging technology can enhance creativity while keeping great design and human judgment at the center of everything we do.
Why Hearst Newspapers?Hearst Newspapers is one of the nation's leading media organizations, reaching millions of readers each week through trusted local journalism, digital products, and innovative marketing solutions.
With more than 2,500 employees across the country, Hearst Newspapers includes iconic brands such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express-News, Albany Times Union, and dozens of other daily and weekly publications.
When you join Hearst, you'll become part of a collaborative team that values creativity, innovation, continuous learning, and delivering meaningful work that helps local businesses and communities thrive.
What You'll Bring- Associate's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field—or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience creating engaging visual content across multiple platforms.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines.
- A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset.
- A desire to continuously learn, grow, and contribute to an innovative creative team.
This is an opportunity to work on a wide variety of creative projects, collaborate with talented colleagues across multiple Hearst properties, and make a real impact through your work. Whether you're designing for print, digital, or emerging platforms, you'll have the opportunity to grow your skills, explore new technologies, and help shape the future of creative storytelling at Hearst Newspapers.
If you're ready to bring bold ideas, exceptional design, and creative energy to one of the nation's leading media organizations, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!
Skills Required
- Experience designing for both print and digital media
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Understanding of typography, layout, branding, color theory, and print production
- Ability to create production-ready files that meet print and digital specifications
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Customer-focused mindset and passion for delivering exceptional work
- Associate's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience creating engaging visual content across multiple platforms
- Attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines
- Experience working directly with clients or customers
- Knowledge of print production processes and file preparation
- Interest in experimenting with AI tools and emerging creative technology
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
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What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
