[DGFG] [FT, Remote, united stated] Creative and Design Strategist (full-time 32-hour work week)

[Jamie Hampton]

🪪 Creative and Design Strategist (full-time 32-hour work week) (Mixte Communications)

📍 united stated, Northern Virginia or Atlanta, Georgia (Remote)

🕣 Full Time

💵 $77,175

As a Creative Strategist at Mixte, you’ll lead the development of visual communications strategies and bring them to life through bold, high-impact creative. You’ll drive big-picture design thinking, campaign architecture, and brand evolution, while also rolling up your sleeves to execute the work. You will partner with project managers, strategists, and client leads to ensure our creative output is not only beautiful, but rooted in strategy and purpose.

LEADERSHIP

-Serve as the strategic creative lead on projects, helping clients clarify their visual identity and align their creative assets with overarching goals.

-Translate complex social justice issues into powerful visual campaigns that move people to action.

-Lead branding, rebranding, and campaign creative processes from concept to completion, including workshops, concept decks, stakeholder feedback, and final delivery.

-Present and defend strategic design direction with clarity, confidence, and flexibility.

-Partner with internal teams to align creative strategy with communications goals and audience insights.

-Offer guidance and strategic insight across a variety of creative mediums from digital to print to motion.

DESIGN EXECUTION & INNOVATION

-Design collateral, visual toolkits, social media content, print and digital ads, reports, decks, email templates, branding elements, and more.

-Push creative boundaries to ensure Mixte’s work leads the industry in innovation, cultural relevance, and authenticity.

-Balance big-idea conceptual design with day-to-day production needs.

-Scale creative deliverables based on scope and budget from scrappy grassroots campaigns to multi-platform initiatives.

-Understand the 23-point Mixte Manual and how all of the things Mixte does as a company interact with your strategic role as Creative Strategist.

COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION

-Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to integrate design into broader communications strategies.

-Proactively surface creative ideas that align with client goals and emerging trends in advocacy, activism, and storytelling.

-Build strong, trust-based relationships with clients, serving as both a creative advisor and a hands-on partner.

-Communicate clearly and compassionately with clients and team members across timelines, revisions, and expectations.

TEAMWORK

-Collaborate with other strategists to understand how various other communications initiatives and strategies correlate and overlap and ensure all are working together smoothly and efficiently toward big-picture company and client goals

-Initiate conversations, brainstorms, research to unearth key inspiration to drive creative concepts and design proposals

-Drive big-picture design projects, such as a rebrand or creative campaign, from start to finish, leading the team and the client through the necessary steps of the process to ensure alignment and excitement with the final product

BUSINESS & GROWTH

-Contribute to new business pitches and proposals, lending strategic and creative vision to help win work.

-Meet quarterly revenue and outreach goals related to business development.

-Identify growth opportunities within existing client accounts by offering creative solutions that solve emerging needs.

REQUIREMENTS

-This role requires that you are established and located in either Northern Virginia or Atlanta, GA.

-7+ years of experience in graphic design, visual communications, or art direction, ideally with strategy responsibilities

-Demonstrated experience leading creative campaigns or brand initiatives with social impact

-Portfolio that showcases a mix of strategy-led design work and hands-on execution across print, digital, and motion

-Deep proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite; bonus if you also know Canva, video editing tools, and light animation

-Excellent presentation skills and the ability to pitch creative ideas persuasively

-Strong project management and organizational skills, including comfort with Asana, Slack, and Google Workspace

-Experience working with communities of color, LGBTQ+ communities, or social justice organizations is highly preferred

-Fluency in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, or Vietnamese is a strong plus

🚀 Apply Here: https://gomixte.com/job/creative-design-strategist/

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 👋 Shared by Jamie Hampton (ja...@gomixte.com)

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