Graphic Designer

Communication/Marketing Denver, Colorado

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is looking for a Graphic Designer who can turn big ideas into beautiful, accurate and production-ready creative assets across digital, print and environmental channels.This role supports work that welcomes guests, advances inclusion, strengthens community connection and brings the Museum’s mission to life every day.

This is a hands-on design role for someone who loves the craft and cares about the details. Great design doesn’t stop at the first layout. It carries through to the final file, the right export, the accurate copy and a clean handoff to the vendor. If getting it right is its own reward, you’ll enjoy this work.

In this role, you will help bring Museum campaigns, exhibitions, theaters, programs and institutional initiatives to life for millions of guests each year. Your work will show up across digital ads, email, web graphics, social media, presentations, signage, large-format displays, event materials, donor communications and internal communications.

We’re looking for a designer with strong visual judgment, excellent production skills and real pride in the details. You’re comfortable adapting approved concepts across formats, keeping our brand consistent and preparing files that are ready for publication, production or vendor handoff.

If you want meaningful work, high visibility and the satisfaction of seeing your designs out in the world, this is the role.

Job Class: Full Time

Hiring Range: $63,000-$68,000 annually

Essential Duties

• Creates graphic standards, implements design concepts, and adheres to results-oriented principles for each phase of multiple advertising campaigns, print collateral, and signage projects simultaneously, meeting all deadlines and project management requirements.
• Reviews all work orders and/or special requests immediately and asks for clarification of direction, when necessary, to ensure full understanding of every project.
• Ensures collaboration with exhibit graphic designers, exhibits/marketing writers, fabricators, contractors, vendors, project manager, and others as appropriate.
• Produces great results on time, within budget, with correct specifications, with all revisions made correctly at every round of revision, with little guidance under tight deadlines, while demonstrating meticulous attention to detail on every project.
• Provides specified vendor with clear and accurate specifications and details to ensure accurate files are provided on time and accurately reflecting project specifications.
• Ensures files are the correct sizes according to the exact specifications provided by media companies, designer, ad agency, or marketing coordinator.
• Manages multiple projects simultaneously, meeting all deadlines and project management requirements including design, implementation, review, preparation, and production.
• Coordinates with project managers on all final graphic products, methods, material costs, and budgets to meet established design criteria, milestones, and exhibition goals.
• Collaborates with digital and exhibition staff to integrate, accommodate, and/or complement the essence of promotional campaigns with the on-site visitor experience and programming.

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements

• Associate’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• 2 years’ graphic design and production experience.
• Some early morning/evening/weekend work.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign.

Application Instructions

Please submit your resume by 6:00 p.m. MT on Friday, July 10th. Applications will not be accepted after this time. DMNS reserves the right to close the position prior to this date. Applications may only be accepted electronically via the Museum's website.

DMNS Core Values

• We love science.
• We are curious, creative, and playful.
• We cultivate relationships with each other, diverse communities, the environment, and for our future.
• We think critically and act with empathy.

Perks of Working at DMNS

( https://www.dmns.org/about/careers/benefits/) to learn more about the benefits package offered to DMNS staff.

Due to the high volume of people who apply, we are not able to respond to specific inquiries regarding your application status.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is an equal opportunity employer. The Museum is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse staff committed to serving the needs of all our visitors, and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds.