Freelance Senior Graphic Designer

Ideate and Create: (60%)

• Visual Leadership: Provide visual direction and guidance to graphic designers and production team members, fostering a collaborative and high-quality creative process.
• Strategic Alignment: Ability to understand client and strategic objectives and implement or ensure integration in the design solutions. Effective communication with internal team members, with the ability to surface issues paired with potential solutions
• Concept Development: Collaborate with the Creative Director to translate creative briefs and client goals into clear, impactful visual concepts across both print and digital media, from initial concept through to final execution.
• Review and Quality Control: Oversee and approve design elements, layouts, and visual concepts, ensuring aesthetic quality, accuracy, and alignment with brand standards. Collaborate with photo and video editors to guarantee high-quality visual output.
• Production-Ready Files: Ensure final designs are production-ready, accurately labeled, and organized for hand-off to vendors or clients, maintaining clear file management standards on cloud platforms.

Scale: (30%)

• Design Oversight: Manage the artistic development of deliverables from initial concept through final execution, including graphics, layout, and photo direction.
• Photo and Video Support: Provide creative input for photo and video productions, including guidance on art direction, style, and visual details. Collaborate with production teams to achieve the desired aesthetic and ensure high-quality image or video output in the final delivery.
• Timeline Adherence: Ensure all projects are completed on time, adhering to deadlines and aligning with project scopes and budgets.
• Production-Ready Files: Ensure final designs are production-ready, accurately labeled, and organized for hand-off to vendors or clients, maintaining clear file management standards on cloud platforms.

Collaboration and Communication: (10%)

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with team members across departments (e.g., strategy, account management) to ensure cohesive execution that aligns with project goals and client objectives. Effective communication with external partners such as production vendors (printers, video/photo production, etc.)
• Feedback Integration & Solutions: Actively listen to client and team member feedback, implementing revisions while maintaining the creative integrity of projects. Propose creative solutions to apply design systems to complex client feedback.
• Internal Communication: Relay creative direction from the Creative Director of visual concept/design directions to team members, which may include contractors/freelancers, and external partners.

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field.
• 4–6 years of experience as a graphic designer, preferably within an agency or freelance setting, with a strong portfolio showcasing campaign work, brand identity, and digital projects.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and Figma (or Sketch). Familiarity with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint) and Google Slides for template preparation is a plus.
• Proven experience managing creative projects, from ideation to production, with strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly and effectively to internal stakeholders, and collaborate with and team members.
• Organized workspace conducive to remote work, inspiring creativity and professionalism.

Apply via email to jobs@bellweather.agency
Include the following in your email:

• Email title: Senior Graphic Designer Application (It is crucial that this title be used, otherwise we will not find your application)
• Your resume
• A link to your portfolio
• A brief cover letter (in the email body) that answers to the following questions:
  1. What has your experience been with remote work?
  2. How does it work well for you and not work as well?
  3. Share a bit of your story and what excites you about Bellweather.

Bellweather is a creative agency for legacy brands: the nonprofits, cultural institutions, healthcare systems, and government organizations that are part of people’s lives. We’ve spent a decade helping these organizations find what makes them matter and bringing it to life through immersive research, artistic collaboration, and creative work that doesn’t look or feel like anyone else’s.

Our clients include Brooklyn Public Library, MetroPlusHealth, Museum Hue, NYC Votes, and Visit Baltimore, among others. We’re a certified woman-owned business and a Webby Award–winning agency. 

Our work starts with immersive research and deep listening. We spend time in communities, collaborating with artists, poets, photographers, and filmmakers to find what makes an organization extraordinary. From there, we build strategic platforms and brand identities that our clients can own and carry forward long after the engagement ends.

About the name

Our name combines “bellwether” (a leading indicator) and “weather” (constant change). We help organizations find what makes them extraordinary and give it a platform that lasts.

How we work

Bellweather is a fully remote company. Our team is distributed across the U.S., with most of our collaboration happening in Eastern time. We’ve built our workflows, meetings, and creative process around remote work from the start.