Senior Graphic Designer

Position Summary:

The Senior Graphic Designer is a key creative leader responsible for producing high-quality designs while overseeing major projects from concept to completion. This role will spend approximately 65–75% of their time on hands-on design work, while also acting as the Foundation’s senior design expert. The Senior Graphic Designer partners closely with the CMO to ensure design supports the organization’s strategic goals.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the design and production of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly magazine, ensuring exceptional visual storytelling.
• Design 65–75% of the time, creating print, digital, environmental, and multimedia assets.
• Serve as the senior design expert, providing creative direction and ensuring all design work aligns with brand standards.
• Manage major design projects from concept to completion, coordinating timelines, priorities, and workflows in collaboration with the team.
• Partner strategically with the CMO to align design work with marketing and organizational goals.
• Act as the design lead on high-impact Foundation initiatives, balancing hands-on design with project leadership.
• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g., Taliesin Institute, Public Engagement and Learning, Advancement) to translate strategic needs into effective visual solutions.
• Review and refine creative assets, ensuring technical accuracy and consistency.
• Contribute to managing the workflow, prioritizing design requests, and coordinating with vendors and freelancers.
• Maintain and organize the Foundation’s digital asset library, ensuring brand materials are accessible and up to date.
• Mentor junior designers or freelancers, offering feedback and guidance as needed.

Compensation: This position is full-time with a salary of $62K/year and comprehensive benefits including a paid time-off package. The Foundation pays up to 90% of monthly health-care premiums and enrolls all regular full-time employees into our life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, and long-term care policies at no cost to employee.

A career at Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation offers more than the opportunity to impact the world through our mission. Our team does vital and valued work that fosters creativity, collaboration, and camaraderie. Besides competitive compensation and benefits, we offer an inclusive environment, amazing views, and incredible architecture to inspire you every day 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related field.
• 3+ years of professional design experience, with a strong portfolio that includes publications and multi-channel campaigns.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).
• Experience managing multiple design projects simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of brand stewardship and visual storytelling.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience working cross-functionally with marketing and leadership teams

Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. 

• Physical Demands: While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and consistently talk or hear; and rarely taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.  
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather and desert environmental conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer