Graphic Designer

Job Summary

The Graphic Designer contributes to the brand strength and storytelling of Children’s Miracle Network by creating high-quality visual designs from concept through final delivery. This role creates engaging assets across digital, print, social, event, and promotional channels while supporting a high volume of projects, often under tight deadlines. The Graphic Designer works closely with project managers, marketing partners, writers, designers, and program teams to deliver creative work that aligns with CMN’s design systems, style guides, brand standards, and fundraising goals.

Core Duties

• Design Development and Brand Stewardship: Create compelling, brand-aligned design assets for digital, print, social, event, and promotional materials while following established design systems, style guides, and visual standards to ensure consistency across all touchpoints.
• Production and File Preparation: Design and produce a high volume of quality art files using Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and other design tools; prepare final production-ready files for print and digital use, including layout, typography, image sizing, color adjustments, and photo retouching as needed.
• Project Execution and Asset Management: Manage multiple projects at the same time from concept through final delivery, meeting timelines and quality standards while archiving projects and assets according to naming and file structure conventions on the Creative Server.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with project managers, marketing leads, writers, designers, program teams, and other internal clients to keep deliverables on track, respond to requests for logos and other design elements, and bring creative ideas to life in support of fundraising and brand goals.
• Creative Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Participate in brainstorming sessions, contribute design concepts and points of view early in the creative process, research emerging design and digital best practices, and apply constructive feedback from creative team members, peers, and internal clients.

Additional Duties

• Set up signage and provide creative support for internal and external events.
• Coordinate with external vendors to meet print and production specifications.
• Assist with packing, shipping, lifting, and moving event materials and signage as needed.
• Support image preparation, photo editing, retouching, file conversion, and visual asset updates.
• Maintain organized project files, templates, design assets, and shared resources.
• Use project management and proofing tools to support workflow, feedback, and approvals.
• Participate in industry conferences, training, team meetings, and creative planning sessions.
• Support evolving organizational needs with flexibility, initiative, and a collaborative spirit.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in graphic design, visual communication, advertising or a related field.

Experience:

• 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in graphic design, advertising, a creative agency, marketing agency, nonprofit, or related environment.

• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

• Working knowledge of Canva and Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365, SharePoint, and OneDrive.

• Proficiency with InDesign style sheets, master pages, page templates, picture import, image sizing, and production layout.

• Proficiency on a Mac platform.

• Experience with project management tools, such as Asana, and proofing tools, such as Lytho or PageProof.

• Strong knowledge of typography, photography, illustration, color, layout, and design principles.

• Strong portfolio of digital and print work required.

• Experience with photo editing, retouching, image preparation, and file preparation for print and digital distribution.

• Familiarity with visual AI tools such as Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, and/or other large language models.

• Ability to communicate clearly, stay organized, solve problems, manage details, and balance multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced team environment.

• Ability to accept and apply constructive feedback from peers, creative team members, and internal clients.

• Strong interpersonal skills with an open, friendly, supportive, and collaborative attitude.

• Reliable, proactive, trustworthy, and committed to excellence in every aspect of work.

• Web design and functionality experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or related field.

Experience:

• Experience in a nonprofit, fundraising, agency, or mission-driven creative environment.

• Experience supporting event, campaign, social, and partner-facing creative materials.

• Familiarity with CMN brand voice, visual identity, and storytelling style.

Values

We are deeply committed to upholding our core values of Integrity, Courage, Collaboration, Accountability, and Excellence. These values guide everything we do, from how we support our employees and partners to how we interact with our communities. Joining our team means embracing these values and contributing to a brighter future for children everywhere.

Competencies

• Ensures Accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

• Plans and Aligns – Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

• Tech Savvy – Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.

• Nimble Learning – Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.

• Optimizes Work Processes – Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

• Manages Complexity – Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• Cultivates Innovation – Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.

• Communicates Effectively – Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

• Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

• Drives Results – Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

• Customer Focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Travel Requirements: Occasional Travel (1-12 nights annually)

Location Requirement:
This role is based in Utah. Candidates must reside in Utah and be able to commute to our Salt Lake City headquarters 2–3 days per week.

Benefits Summary:

Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees (and some part-time employees), which includes:

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement Plans: 403(b) with generous organizational contributions.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Tiered by tenure.
• Family and Medical Leave: In compliance with FMLA and applicable state laws.
• Disability and Life Insurance: Short- and long-term disability coverage, and employer-paid life insurance.
• Additional Benefits: Employee assistance programs, wellness initiatives, and professional development opportunities.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.