Senior Graphic Designer

📍 Job Overview

Job Title: Senior Graphic Designer

Company: IXL Learning

Location: San Mateo, CA

Job Type: Full-Time

Category: Marketing Operations / Creative Operations

Date Posted: 2026-04-02

Experience Level: 5-10 Years

Remote Status: Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote)

🚀 Role Summary

• Drive creative excellence and brand consistency across multiple educational technology brands through strategic graphic design initiatives.

• Develop compelling visual assets for a wide range of print and digital collateral, ensuring alignment with marketing and curriculum objectives.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, curriculum, publishing, and product teams to translate business needs into impactful design solutions.

• Manage a high volume of design requests efficiently, prioritizing projects and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of quality creative assets.

• Adapt design approaches to effectively target diverse audiences, including educators, students, parents, and administrators.

📝 Enhancement Note: This role is positioned within a "Creative Operations" or "Marketing Operations" framework, focusing on the strategic application of design to support business objectives and operational efficiency in content creation and brand management for a large EdTech company.

📈 Primary Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and execute visually appealing designs for brochures, workbooks, curriculum guides, event materials, direct mailers, and print prototypes.

• Enhance and refresh existing designs, incorporating new layouts, graphics, and content to maintain brand relevance and visual appeal.

• Uphold and enforce strict visual consistency and brand identity guidelines across all brands and collateral.

• Partner closely with leaders in marketing, curriculum development, publishing, and product departments to ensure design solutions meet strategic goals.

• Skillfully manage multiple concurrent projects, prioritize tasks, provide regular stakeholder updates, and ensure high-quality output within specified timelines.

• Demonstrate versatility by seamlessly designing for distinct audience segments (teachers, students, parents, administrators).

• Process and prioritize high-volume design requests, ensuring efficient workflow and resource allocation.

• [Core Responsibility from Input] Create attractive, compelling designs including brochures, workbooks, curriculum guide books, events materials, direct mailers, print prototypes, and other collateral.

• [Core Responsibility from Input] Enhance existing designs with new layouts, graphics, and content.

• [Core Responsibility from Input] Maintain visual consistency and brand identity.

• [Core Responsibility from Input] Collaborate closely with leaders across the marketing, curriculum, publishing, and product departments.

• [Core Responsibility from Input] Efficiently manage multiple projects and stakeholders, prioritize and share updates, and deliver high-quality designs in a timely fashion.

• [Core Responsibility from Input] Effortlessly switch between designing for different audiences (teacher, student, parents, and school administrators).

📝 Enhancement Note: The responsibilities highlight a need for strong project management and stakeholder communication skills, crucial for operations roles that bridge creative output with business needs within a fast-paced environment. The emphasis on "high volume design requests" and "prioritization" points towards an operations-centric approach to creative workflow.

🎓 Skills & Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field.

Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in graphic design, with a proven track record of high-accuracy print design and timely delivery. Experience in a fast-paced, rapidly growing organization is essential.

Required Skills:

• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and the broader Adobe Creative Suite.

• Exceptional ability to design clean, clutter-free graphics that adhere to established brand style guides.

• Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail, crucial for print accuracy and brand consistency.

• Proven capacity