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In-House Graphic Designer

Location: Remote (U.S.)
Compensation: $85,000.00
Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt

About Us

Project Equity is a national leader in the movement to harness employee ownership to maintain thriving local business communities, honor company legacies, and address wealth inequality. Through our core organizational initiatives and our EO Equals platform, we partner with cities, regions, and professional sectors to normalize employee ownership as a mainstream economic solution and broaden access to wealth-building opportunities.

Role Overview

The In-House Graphic Designer serves as the organization’s “Visual Guardian” for both the Project Equity and EO Equals brands. Reporting to the VP of Marketing & Communications, this role is responsible for modularizing long-form intellectual property into high-impact visual assets. You will translate complex economic data and national narratives into a compelling visual language that fuels our growth and establishes Project Equity as a visionary authority.

Key Responsibilities

1. Visual IP Modularization & Information Design

  • From Research to Reach: Transform dense white papers, research reports, and provocative POVs into highly consumable digital assets, including social media graphics, interactive web tools, slide decks, webinars, and promotional flyers. (Note: Long-form, complex publications and comprehensive learning products are typically supported by outside contractors.)
  • Data Visualization: Translate complex Employee Ownership data into high-fidelity charts and graphics designed to secure AI citations and simplify key financial concepts for business owners.
  • Asset Scalability: Execute our content distribution engine by modularizing key quarterly insights into various formats optimized for LinkedIn, Instagram, and web-based educational resources.

2. Brand Governance & Creative Leadership

  • Guardian of the “Brand Bible”: Maintain and enforce the organizational voice and visual identity, ensuring every asset reinforces Project Equity’s position as a category leader.
    Style Evolution: Support the transition from traditional, academic styles to a business-proactive, visionary aesthetic that appeals to media and funders.
    Digital Hygiene: Conduct regular brand collateral audits to retire outdated templates and ensure all external-facing materials meet current E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) standards.

3. Digital Growth & Marketing Support

  • Conversion-First Design: Create high-converting creative for paid digital advertising channels to capture high-intent demographics like retiring business owners.
  • Lead Magnet Production: Design visually immersive digital elements and PDF lead magnets (e.g., Succession Planning Toolkits) to drive subscriber growth.
  • Multimedia Synergy: Partner with our digital and video content creators to provide graphic overlays, searchable thumbnails, and visual assets for YouTube, LinkedIn, and short-form video.

4. Cross-Functional Activation & Asset Management

  • Event & Regional Support:Provide graphic design support for regional market campaigns and key organizational events (such as the Employee Ownership Equals Summit) to ensure physical and virtual touchpoints are visually cohesive.
  • Sales Enablement Support: Collaborate with the Marketing team to design high-utility tools, including ROI calculators and industry-specific comparison guides.
  • Digital Asset Archiving: Serve as the team’s internal library resource by managing, tagging, sorting, and archiving all creative materials to ensure assets are easily accessible to the broader organization.

Qualifications and Skills

  • Visual Storytelling: Exceptional ability to distill technical or service-based information into clear, persuasive, and modern visual narratives.
  • Technical Proficiency: Expert-level mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and Canva. Familiarity with basic motion graphics is a plus.
  • Category Design Mindset: Experience working in an environment where design is used to establish authority and define a market footprint.
  • Collaborative Workflow: Strong project management skills within a shared project tracking ecosystem (Asana), with the ability to manage multiple overlapping project deadlines.
  • Experience: 5+ years of graphic design experience, with a portfolio showcasing data visualization, quick-turn digital assets, and sophisticated branding.

Your Competencies

  • Cross-Functional Optimization & Project Excellence: Proven ability to collaborate seamlessly across diverse organizational workflows, supporting internal champions while balancing and prioritizing multiple design tracks to meet critical deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Feedback Synthesis & Visionary Execution: Strong ability to actively listen, synthesize, and incorporate constructive feedback from team members, successfully translating strategic creative direction into high-impact visual solutions while fiercely protecting core project goals and brand standards.
  • Technical Design Mastery: Deep conceptual and applied command of layout, typography, visual hierarchy, color theory, and contemporary design principles.
  • Digital Reach & Platform Optimization: Advanced knowledge of digital imaging workflows, including technical file types, resolution requirements, and color modes, paired with a sharp grasp of specifications, dimensions, and distribution best practices for social media channels and web platforms.
  • Narrative Alignment & Copywriting: Strong written and verbal communication skills, a background or strong interest in promotional storytelling, messaging alignment, and content editing.
  • Proactive Solution-Finding: A mission-driven self-starter with a natural instinct to take initiative, anticipate design gaps across the brand ecosystem, and independently navigate complex creative challenges.
  • Inclusive, “Big Tent” Collaboration: A deep capacity to listen, understand, connect, and collaborate authentically with team members at all levels of the organization.

Qualifications and Skills

  • Asset Velocity: Successful modularization of quarterly high-value pieces into a consistent stream of social and web assets.
  • Brand Authority: Adherence to the refreshed Brand Bible across all departments, leading to a unified national identity.
  • Ensuring our branded content is up to date: Ensure all external-facing materials are kept current and up to date.
  • Engagement Quality: The performance of visual assets in securing high-value engagements and driving “Blog-to-Consultation” clicks.
  • Innovation: Contribution to establishing PE/EOE as a “Top 3” visual citation for Generative AI searches in business innovation.

Benefits

(The following benefits package is subject to revision)

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays.
  • 401(k) retirement plan matching.
  • Remote work stipend for home office setup.

To be considered for this position, submit your resume, cover letter, and portfolio by completing our online application. 

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