Associate Designer - Fundraising & Digital Marketing

Interactive Strategies is a company that collaborates with mission-driven organizations to design impactful digital experiences. As an Associate Digital Designer, you will craft engaging visuals for social media, develop email templates, and create motion graphics to enhance client messaging while collaborating with a team to deliver polished creative outputs.

Responsibilities

• Social Media Design: Craft bold, on-brand visuals for social campaigns, paid ads, and social-first storytelling. Your designs will drive engagement and boost visibility for meaningful causes
• Email Design: Develop eye-catching email templates and campaign assets that don't just look good, but also drive clicks and conversions. You'll help push the boundaries of what's possible in email design
• Animation & Video Content: Create dynamic motion graphics and video content that enhance client messaging and help clients stand out in a crowded digital landscape
• Collaboration: Partner with senior designers, strategists, project managers, and clients to ensure creative outputs are aligned, impactful, and polished. You’ll be a key contributor across concepting, execution, and refinement
• Creative Problem-Solving: Tackle design challenges with a strategic mindset—bringing fresh ideas to life within established brand systems, while balancing visual appeal, clarity, accessibility, and purpose in every solution

Skills

• 1-3 years of professional experience in digital design (agency or nonprofit experience a plus)
• A portfolio that showcases your work across social, branding, illustration, and motion/video content
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and motion tools like After Effects or Premiere Pro
• A sharp eye for typography, color, composition, and design systems
• Detail-oriented, organized, and confident managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• A growth mindset—open to feedback, iteration, and continuous improvement
• A collaborative spirit and a passion for work that makes a difference
• A feeling that creativity is not just your career, it is a big part of what defines you. Are you also an illustrator? a photographer? a writer? These things matter and we want to hear about them

Benefits

• Company-sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Profit sharing
• 4 weeks of PTO to start; 5+ weeks after year 3
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
• 11 paid holidays
• 401k with company match
• New business referral bonus
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible work schedule
• Pre-tax DC Metro SmartBenefits

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