The Role
The Senior Designer, Editorial will create compelling visuals for editorial formats, collaborating with teams to uphold design standards and streamline workflows.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Morning Brew Inc., we mix what you need to know with our unique brand of wit to attract, and build real relationships with, the next generation of business leaders. We speak to them like people, ensuring they get the context and insight needed to make decisions every day. Loyalty and trust are our most valuable currencies.
Whether scrolling, reading, watching, or listening, our audience trusts us for credible, entertaining business content that makes an impact on their personal and professional lives.
The Morning Brew team is clever, creative, and growing fast. Want in? Read on.
OVERVIEW
Morning Brew is looking for a Senior Designer, Editorial to bring smart, creative visuals to a wide range of editorial formats, newsletters, features, and tentpoles, across our high-volume newsroom of consumer and professional publications.
This is a hands-on role focused on producing smart, scalable visuals that serve our editorial voice and business goals. You’ll create custom illustrations, build templates, and develop collages that bring clarity and creativity to our journalism. You’ll also partner with our Photo Editor, Editorial to ensure visual consistency and collaborate with freelance designers to keep production moving smoothly.
We’re looking for someone who’s just as comfortable creating original artwork as they are thinking through systems and workflows. The ideal candidate has great taste, a sharp eye for brand nuance, and thrives in a fast-paced newsroom.
Morning Brew is based in New York City but this role is remote-friendly for all candidates.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Editorial Design & Production
- Create high-quality visuals, including illustration, collage, and templates, for consumer and professional publications
- Collaborate with editors to determine when stories need custom art, templated visuals, or stock solutions
- Contribute to visual storytelling for tentpoles, features, and interactive experiences across 12+ brands
- Adapt your execution style to fit different brand identities and audience needs
Creative Collaboration
- Partner with the Photo Editor, Editorial and freelance designers to uphold design standards across all editorial output
- Concept and give feedback on art treatments in pitch meetings and brainstorms, while also driving high visual standards through clear design rationale and attention to brand consistency
- Surface new ideas for how art and design can work together to support reader experience
Editorial Design Systems
- Build and evolve Figma templates and in-house stock libraries to support scalable editorial design
- Organize, tag, and maintain a growing archive of visual assets in partnership with the Photo Editor
- Apply systems thinking to streamline visual workflows and improve consistency across brands
- Balance speed and craft by clearly communicating timelines and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- 5+ years of experience in editorial design or related fields
- Fluency in tools like Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Procreate
- Strong visual judgment and understanding of brand systems
- Comfort juggling high-volume design production with more conceptual, long-lead projects
- Excellent communication skills: you’re clear, collaborative, and comfortable giving and receiving feedback
- Familiarity with editorial workflows and working closely with editors and contractors
- A proactive, self-managed work style, you're someone who can keep pace and help others stay aligned
- Curiosity about how editorial design evolves and scales across brands
- An ownership mindset, you’re not afraid to challenge the status quo and grow in the role
BONUS POINTS
- Experience building design systems or editorial templates
- An interest in contributing to the overall art direction of a story or visual concepting
- Enthusiasm for illustration and editorial storytelling
- A personal roster of freelance illustrators or designers you’ve worked with and trust
COMPENSATION $80,000-$85,000 *Final offers for this job will be made within the parameters of the salary range provided, commensurate with experience. Total offer package to include benefits highlighted under our perks section below.
HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER
Respectful Candor -- We believe that engaging in timely, constructive, and open discourse is an act of respect that makes for a more transparent and productive work environment.
Empathy -- We establish a strong partnership of trust with our co-workers and partners. We build human connections in order to understand each other.
Inclusivity -- Morning Brew Inc is deeply committed to fostering a transparently inclusive workplace environment, and people of color, women, people with disabilities, veterans, and LGBTQIA+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
HOW WE TREAT OUR WORK
Curiosity -- We learn every day through deliberate inquiry and exploration. We re-examine assumptions to be a better company, offer better products, and become better colleagues.
Accountability -- We celebrate our successes and own our failures. Taking responsibility for our actions allows us to learn from our experiences.
Bias Toward Action -- We know speed matters in business so we embrace quick and calculated risk-taking. We understand that many actions are reversible and therefore we are solutions-oriented, even when facing obstacles and challenges.
Challenger Mentality -- We don’t allow ourselves to be comfortable with our success. We are hungry to become the best and create more value for our audience.
Clarity of Purpose -- We understand the “why” in our work, which helps us to operate at our highest level of performance and efficiency.
PERKS
While being surrounded by a bunch of cool people who look great in crewnecks is its own reward, we have plenty more to offer.
Brew’s HQ: Pick an adjustable standing desk or cozy corner and load up on free coffee (duh) and snacks at our new two-story office space in NYC’s Flatiron District.
401(k) employer match: We want to help you prepare for the future, now.
Premium health, vision, and dental plans: Your health matters!
Mental health benefits: Personalized plans and programs to promote your mental well-being.
Extra help when you need it: Including a care concierge, plus free access to One Medical and the Calm app.
Family planning: Want to join #brewparents? Generous paid parental leave and fertility coverage for eligible employees.
Employee Resource Groups: Black Coffee, LGBTQ Brew, AAPI Brew, Cafe Con Leche, and Grounded
Gym and workout class reimbursements: It pays to be healthy.
Annual learning credit: Want to learn something new? We'll reimburse you.
BRIEF BREW HISTORY
Morning Brew Inc. was founded in 2015 by two entrepreneurial college students who noticed their peers were not consuming legacy media resources about business and finance news, but had a high desire to learn about those topics. What started as a small on-campus email has since evolved into a multi-channel media company that operates 20+ unique content franchises. All while maintaining our witty, honest and engaging tone that millions of loyal MBI audience members rely upon daily to better navigate the world.
In 2020 a majority stake in MBI was acquired by Axel Springer SE and in February 2025 that position was increased to full ownership of the business. Axel Springer SE is a family-owned, transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York that is committed to the values of a free and informed society. To learn more about Axel Springer SE and what defines us, visit axelspringer.com.
Top Skills
Figma
Illustrator
Photoshop
Procreate
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The Company
What We Do
Got five minutes? We can make you smarter.
Morning Brew is the media company redefining the business news landscape through approachable, digestible—and not to brag—downright funny content. Across newsletters, podcasts, social media, and events, we reach an audience of over 3 million future and current business leaders.
Founded in 2015 by Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief at the University of Michigan, the company has grown to include products that are invaluable to its readers. With our flagship daily newsletter, our lifestyle and recommendations publication, Sidekick, and our podcasts Business Casual and Founders Journal, Morning Brew creates accessible content for anyone interested in business. And for the people who love to dive deep on an industry, we have Emerging Tech Brew, Retail Brew, Marketing Brew, and our new vertical HR Brew.
Along with our core values of curiosity, empathy, purpose, and having a challenger mentality, we are empowering business leaders—present and future—to make an impact on the world.
Oh, and yes, we have great swag.
