Senior Graphic Designer - Elections & Social Impact Campaigns
Taskforce 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead visual strategy and creative execution for high-visibility campaigns, driving concept development across digital, print, and experiential platforms to strengthen campaign narratives. Key duties include producing compelling design work for high-stakes moments, designing environmental elements for large-scale events, and ensuring cohesive visual storytelling through cross-functional partnership.
Responsibilities
- Lead Visual Strategy & Creative Execution: Drive concept development and execution of visual design that strengthens campaign narratives for elections, advocacy, and civic engagement — across digital, print, out-of-home, event environments, and experiential installations
- High-Impact Campaign Support: Produce compelling design work for high-stakes moments including rapid response actions, voter outreach, public awareness campaigns, social impact initiatives, and coalition-driven activations
- Experiential & Event Design: Design graphics and environmental elements for large-scale experiences, live events, brand activations, rally materials, outdoor installations, and immersive campaign touchpoints that engage diverse audiences
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with strategists, content creators, producers, digital teams, partners, and vendors to ensure cohesive visual storytelling that aligns with strategic objectives
- Design Production & Quality Assurance: Manage asset production from concept through delivery, including file prep, production specs, vendor coordination, and quality control for print, digital, environmental, and spatial graphics
- Brand Stewardship & Visual Systems: Define and maintain brand standards, visual guidelines, and creative systems that ensure consistency and excellence across high-visibility campaign assets
- Mentorship & Team Leadership: Provide creative guidance and feedback to junior designers and across teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performing creative environment
Requirements
- 6–10+ years of graphic design experience
- Proven track record of leading complex design projects from conception to production with excellent attention to detail and cross-discipline coordination
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Figma or equivalent
- Strong understanding of production processes for print, digital, and environmental graphics
- Commitment to social impact work, equity in public engagement, and campaigns that advance participation, awareness, or justice
Benefits
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Opportunities for travel to major events and cultural activations
- Collaborative, mission-driven workplace that values creativity, culture, and impact
Key Skills
About Taskforce
TaskForce is an independent agency that builds capacity and community for the most influential nonprofits, brands and people who are taking on some of the most pressing challenges facing our state, our nation and our world. We understand the role that creative culture plays in shaping public opinion and policy and invest heavily in creating lasting relationships with the communities and partners we engage with. We work primarily at the intersection of Arts/Culture + Social Change and our work has resulted in some of the most highly acclaimed and influential public campaigns on behalf of clients that include the United Nations Foundation, the White House, The Nature Conservancy, The MacArthur Foundation, Rock The Vote, The County of Los Angeles, Amnesty International and beyond. TaskForce understands not only how to reach audiences, but to help them process complex challenges, to get them to invest in outcomes, to their role in shaping the solution and to inspire them to get involved
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