Graphic Designer VA (Remote)

Graphic Designer (Remote)

• Project Based
• Candidates must be available to work U.S. business hours. Reliability, punctuality, and consistent attendance are required.
• Rate: USD $8/hour

Role Responsibilities

● Create visually appealing designs for various marketing materials, including digital, print, and social media.

● Collaborate with design team to understand project requirements and client needs

● Update existing templates and ensure all designs align with existing brand guidelines

● Ensure that all designs are visually consistent and meet quality standards.

● Collaborate with design team to continuously improve workflows, best-practices, and design output

Preferred Qualifications

● Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts or a related field

● 3-5 years of professional experience creating marketing, advertising, branding, or promotional materials. Multifamily, real estate, hospitality, or agency experience is strongly preferred.

● Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, with particular expertise in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat.

● Experience designing and producing a wide range of materials, including brochures, flyers, signage, maps, floor plans, social media graphics, digital advertisements, email graphics, presentations, and website assets.

● Strong understanding of print production, including bleeds, crop marks, color modes, image resolution, font packaging, file preparation, preflight checks, and vendor-ready file delivery.

● Experience resizing, reformatting, and adapting creative assets across multiple platforms, dimensions, and specifications while maintaining brand consistency.

● Ability to edit and manipulate photography, including color correction, retouching, image cleanup, background removal, and preparation for print and digital use.

● Working knowledge of digital design requirements, including responsive layouts, web-optimized imagery, file compression, accessibility considerations, and common advertising platform specifications.

● Ability to create or modify vector artwork, logos, icons, maps, site plans, floor plans, and other technical or detailed visual assets.

● Strong understanding of typography, spacing, hierarchy, composition, alignment, color theory, and visual storytelling.

● Ability to interpret creative briefs, written instructions, brand guidelines, and client feedback and translate them into polished, audience-appropriate designs.

● Sound independent judgment and the ability to make strong design decisions while considering the client’s brand, target audience, objectives, and intended use.

● Strong quality-control skills, with the ability to review files for spelling, formatting, consistency, resolution, dimensions, links, fonts, and production accuracy before delivery.

● Excellent file-management practices, including consistent naming conventions, version control, organized folder structures, linked asset management, and archival procedures.

● Ability to troubleshoot missing fonts, broken links, corrupt files, formatting issues, image-quality concerns, and other common production challenges.

● Experience working within project-management and cloud-based collaboration platforms such as Asana, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, SharePoint, Dropbox, or similar systems.

● Ability to manage multiple assignments, meet deadlines, accurately track time, and communicate early when instructions, files, or timelines are unclear.

● Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to participate effectively in virtual meetings and provide clear project updates.

● Comfortable working independently in an offshore or remote environment while remaining responsive during agreed-upon overlapping U.S. business hours.

● Receptive to feedback, detail-oriented, resourceful, and able to revise work efficiently without losing the original creative direction.

● Experience with Canva, PowerPoint, Figma, Adobe Express, motion graphics, video editing, AI-assisted creative tools, or basic website content updates is a plus.

NiceTo-Haves

● Experience with website design and development

● Basic photography and video editing skills

● Basic HTML email editing skills

● Experience with project management software (ex., Asana) and digital asset management

Application Requirements *(Please include the link to your resume and portfolio on your cover letter)*

● Portfolio showcasing a strong variety of graphic design materials, including but not limited to: brand guides, presentation decks, digital ads, social campaigns, brochures, print pieces, event graphics, email graphics, and website design

● Resume