Temporary Designer

Job Description

Hearst Magazines’ Commerce Team is looking for a temporary designer to help shape the look and feel of shopping content across our iconic brands—from Cosmopolitan and ELLE to Good Housekeeping and Country Living. You’ll be part of a fast-paced editorial team working to create impactful and helpful shopping content for a variety and evolving list of platforms. This person should be available for a minimum of 15-20 hours/week through the end of the year and have 3-4 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Design imagery for shopping stories to help elevate the visual experience of our content across various brands
• Partner with editors to develop reusable graphic templates for new distribution channels
• Produce short-form video and motion graphics for digital content, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and more
• Collaborate cross-functionally with editors, brand designers, and more to deliver timely, on-brand visuals
  
  

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of professional design experience, ideally in digital editorial environments
• Versatile and brand-savvy—you can switch styles effortlessly and quickly
• Strong visual storytelling skills across static, motion, and short-form video
• Working knowledge of the difference between SEO- and social-driven formats and how design impacts engagement and conversion
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
• Experience using Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
  
  

The base salary for this role is between $40-45/hr. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hearst Magazines is 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, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.