Digital Designer / Graphic Design

We are an established travel company based on Bainbridge Island, WA seeking a highly skilled and creative Digital Designer to lead our digital design efforts. We create and operate various in-depth premium travel experiences around the world for groups and organizations. Join us and help communicate the power of traveling together to our guests, partners, and groups.

Position: Freelance, Remote

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

* Design visually stunning digital travel content, communications, and marketing pieces for various platforms, including our website, email campaigns, social media, and others.
* Evolve and maintain an elegantly simple and professional visual brand identity across all platforms, ensuring adherence to brand guidelines in all design work.
* Create cohesive, easily understandable, and visually appealing website layouts and interfaces demonstrating quality design as a signature part of the overall Experi experience.
* Collaborate closely with content creators and copywriters to ensure visuals, text, and video complement each other, resulting in authentic and engaging content.
* Develop visually appealing and informative maps, infographics, and other visual tools to help guests better understand travel destinations, itineraries, and trip details.
* Continuously iterate and improve designs based on feedback from team members, visitors, guests, and partners.
* Stay current with industry trends, tools, and best practices in design, web technology, and user experiences.
* Work with the marketing team to ensure proper implementation of design elements, maintaining consistency and quality throughout the process.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

* 3+ years of professional digital design experience, preferably in a high-quality freelance or strong agency setting.
* An impressive digital design portfolio, ideally focused on premium or luxury North American customers. Travel industry experience not necessary.
* Exceptional creative visual design skills with an eye for detail, color, typography, user flow, and layout across all formats.
* Expert design ability with web tools particularly WordPress, and Beaver Builder, but overall advanced comfort and capability with related web-focused design tools.
* Demonstrated understanding of UI/UX design principles and best practices, experience with responsive web design in a WordPress / Beaver Builder environment.
* Strong proficiency and comfort with industry design tools, both legacy and advanced.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills.

PREFERRED SKILLS & TRAITS FOR SUCCESS

* Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Digital Media, or related fields.
* Comfort with basic web development design-specific coding.
* Ability to work productively independently and remotely.
* High level of intellectual capability and curiosity.
* Attention to detail, professionalism, thoughtfulness, and follow-through.
* Self-motivated, proactive, and eager to learn and grow in the field of digital design.
* Passion for staying up-to-date with industry trends, leading design approaches, and emerging technologies.