Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid
$71k–$80k/yr
Position overview The Senior Specialist, Graphic Design (SSGD) is a hands-on creative manager responsible for producing high-quality visual design across client and agency initiatives. This position emphasizes strong lay…
Skills: Graphic Design, Layout, Typography, Visual Systems Thinking, Adobe Creative Cloud
Chicago, Illinois, United States • Hybrid
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The Senior Specialist, Graphic Design is responsible for producing high-quality visual assets, campaign materials, and digital collateral across multiple client projects. They lead the development of cohesive visual systems and ensure consistency and accessibility across all print and digital platforms.
Candidates must have six or more years of professional graphic design experience and a strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in layout and typography. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and presentation tools is required, along with experience in agency or multi-client environments.
Position overview
The Senior Specialist, Graphic Design (SSGD) is a hands-on creative manager responsible for producing high-quality visual design across client and agency initiatives. This position emphasizes strong layout, typography and visual systems thinking. The SSGD is accountable for graphic execution, consistency and delivery of materials, and includes the development of visual systems, campaign assets, presentations and digital collateral, largely within an established creative direction and strategy for each assignment. Working in partnership with content, engagement and account management professionals, the Senior Specialist, Graphic Design brings strong judgment and craft to execution while helping ensure clarity, accessibility and cohesion across all visual work.
This is a full-time role with expectations for 40 scheduled working hours each week, Mondays through Fridays during traditional business hours. This role requires in-office, client-site and/or off-site presence three days a week. The role reports to a Director. Its progressive roles are Assistant Director, Director and Senior Director. The role includes medical insurance and earns paid vacation and sick time off, transit benefits and access to a 401(k) program with a 3% employer-match upon eligibility
Position details
The Senior Specialist, Graphic Design leads the development and execution of high-quality visual assets across digital and print platforms, ensuring alignment with established creative direction and content strategy. This role supports the client services team by developing visual systems, campaign assets, presentations, and digital collateral. Working alongside writers, a videographer, and other content professionals, the Senior Specialist advances clear, accessible, and cohesive visual storytelling across the agency’s core areas and 5-8 concurrent projects. The Senior Specialist is expected to deliver projects on schedule and within budget, closes projects with production-ready documentation. Key responsibilities include developing cohesive visual systems for major campaigns; leading layout for complex, text-heavy materials; producing long-form publications (e.g., annual reports and toolkits) free of post-production errors; supporting brand and website initiatives; and designing event and presentation materials as needed. The Senior Specialist also will review work created by junior designers, collaborate with videography partners to ensure visual alignment, present their work to decision-makers, maintain organized digital files. This role requires daily time-entry compliance.
Role-specific qualifications
General employee expectations
There is no relocation support for this role. Preferred applicants are based in metropolitan Chicago and have familiarity about the area's geography and public and cultural affairs.
We believe communication is everything.
Rudd Resources LLC is a Chicago-based company focused on communications since 2014. We provide strategic business communications leadership and support to corporate and social enterprises, non-profit organizations and philanthropic organizations. Visit our website to learn, and visit our video showcase to see more: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8075064 We specialize in projects focused on: community and economic development; diversity, equity and inclusion; healthcare and health equity; philanthropic initiatives; and, transportation and infrastructure. Our client-service approach blends thoughtfulness, creativity, transparency, listening and humility for each project. We serve as our clients’ guide – their rudder. We are experienced outsiders brought in to get work done and meet goals cost-effectively. Current and recent clients include Cummins, Elevated Chicago, the Friends of the Forest Preserves, the Chicago Community Trust and Hope Chicago. Learn more about our team, our clients and our projects by visiting our website.
Offices: 56 E. 47th Street., Suite 300C, Chicago, IL 60653, US
We believe communication is everything.
Rudd Resources LLC is a Chicago-based company focused on communications since 2014. We provide strategic business communications leadership and support to corporate and social enterprises, non-profit organizations and philanthropic organizations. Visit our website to learn, and visit our video showcase to see more: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8075064 We specialize in projects focused on: community and economic development; diversity, equity and inclusion; healthcare and health equity; philanthropic initiatives; and, transportation and infrastructure. Our client-service approach blends thoughtfulness, creativity, transparency, listening and humility for each project. We serve as our clients’ guide – their rudder. We are experienced outsiders brought in to get work done and meet goals cost-effectively. Current and recent clients include Cummins, Elevated Chicago, the Friends of the Forest Preserves, the Chicago Community Trust and Hope Chicago. Learn more about our team, our clients and our projects by visiting our website.
Offices: 56 E. 47th Street., Suite 300C, Chicago, IL 60653, US
