[Remote] Multimedia Designer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crain Communications is a leading business news and information company, and they are seeking a Multimedia Designer to create engaging multimedia storytelling experiences. This role involves collaborating with various teams to design, edit, and enhance storytelling across digital platforms, while maintaining brand standards and improving audience engagement.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with editors, reporters, content managers, and stakeholders to develop visually compelling multimedia storytelling experiences
- Edit video content for editorial and Ad Solutions initiatives while guiding the visual execution through motion graphics, typography, branding, animation, and audience-focused design
- Design engaging social-first video content optimized for digital and social media platforms
- Create motion graphics, animations, lower thirds, title sequences, and supporting visual assets that elevate storytelling across platforms
- Establish and maintain visual standards and best practices for video storytelling across Crain brands
- Design and develop multimedia presentations and audience-focused storytelling experiences that combine graphics, motion, video, audio, and interactive elements
- Contribute creative ideas and storytelling concepts that improve audience engagement and user experience
- Create cohesive storytelling experiences across web, mobile, social, and multimedia platforms
- Support alternative story formats and digital storytelling initiatives in partnership with Digital Designers and Art Directors
- Build and maintain digital storytelling projects using established design and development best practices
- Implement web accessibility standards and usability best practices where applicable
- Support web production needs, as needed, to ensure timely publishing and execution
- Manage assigned projects and deadlines across multiple Crain brands
- Collaborate with team members to troubleshoot multimedia, design, and user experience challenges
- Stay current on emerging storytelling formats, multimedia technologies, social media trends, accessibility standards, and audience engagement best practices
- Assist with the development of reusable multimedia templates, motion graphics packages, storytelling frameworks, and workflow standards
- Contribute to a collaborative creative environment by sharing ideas, supporting teammates, and continually exploring innovative storytelling approaches
Skills
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in visual design, graphic design, digital media, multimedia design, communications, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in multimedia design, video editing, motion graphics, digital storytelling, or a related field
- Advanced proficiency in professional video editing workflows, including editing for digital, mobile, and social-first platforms
- Strong understanding of visual storytelling principles, audience engagement strategies, and interactive storytelling
- Experience designing content optimized for social media platforms and mobile-first audiences
- Strong understanding of SEO best practices and digital content optimization
- Experience using AI-assisted creative tools to enhance storytelling, improve workflow efficiency, and support content production
- Ability to translate complex ideas into visually compelling and accessible storytelling experiences
- Experience developing creative standards, templates, or best practices that improve quality and consistency
- Advanced proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Creative Cloud
- Experience with design tools such as Figma and Ceros
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and digital publishing workflows
- Experience working with content management systems such as Arc XP or WordPress
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in a hybrid work environment
- Excellent organization, time management, and prioritization skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Positive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented mindset
- Experience working within a newsroom, publishing organization, agency, or custom content environment
- Experience working within a centralized creative team, balancing priorities and collaborating across multiple brands and stakeholders
- Experience providing creative direction or art direction for multimedia, digital storytelling, or cross-platform editorial and client-facing projects
- Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to coordinate multiple multimedia-related initiatives
Benefits
- Retirement plan savings contributions
- Bonus opportunities based on individual and company performance
- Employee work location is determined by the needs of the specific team and may include on-site, hybrid or remote
- An “in-office” role would require the employee to come into the office most days with occasional flexibility to work remotely if tasks can be performed elsewhere and if the manager approves.
- A “remote” role would allow an employee to work from a home office that is in one of the states Crain does business in.
- A “hybrid” role would be a mix of in-office and remote work. There may be a specified schedule for coming into the office or it could be at the discretion of the employee with the manager’s approval, subject to change.
- Employees who live within a reasonable commute distance from a Crain office are expected to work on-site 3 days per week.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions and meet the environmental and physical demands of the role.
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