Graphic Designer (Marketing)

Position: Graphic Designer

Reports to: Vice President of Global Marketing 

Location: Remote: Waukegan, Illinois, about 40 miles north of Chicago’s Loop

Salary: $85,000 - $100,000 (Compensation is based on education, skills, experience and other job-related factors.)

Position Summary:

In this role, you will lead the creation, consistency, and quality of our brand’s creative assets. You will apply your hands-on experience across a breadth of creative disciplines to translate the motivations of varying audiences into relevant creative content.   Your growth mindset, collaborative nature, and organization skills enable you to successfully execute a variety of projects of varying complexity. You are eager to make an impact and shape a brand’s visual identity in a growing company.  Nielsen-Massey has built an exceptional and motivated cross-functional team with high ambitions, and you will play a key role within the marketing team, reporting up through the VP of Marketing. There could not be a more exciting time to join this team!

Key Responsibilities:

Brand Creative Development & Content Management

• Develop and maintain brand consistency across all creative touchpoints.
• Translate creative direction, feedback, and brand guidelines into polished, on-brand executions.
• Own and manage the brand content library to ensure assets are organized, accessible, and up to date.

Asset Creation Across Channels

• Design and refine visual assets for marketing and sales needs, including:
  • 3D product renders
  • Customer ads in both digital and print formats
  • E-commerce tiles
  • Product & Lifestyle imagery
  • Sell sheets and product catalogs
  • Email assets and layouts
• Create and update packaging label designs including both original concepts and edits to existing designs.
• Create and edit video and motion graphic content for digital channels.
• Organize creative assets in a shared location for easy access 

Project & Team Collaboration

• Work closely with marketing and sales teams to develop high-impact brand materials.
• Manage multiple projects concurrently, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with project requirements.

Knowledge and Characteristics:

MUSTS:

• 4–5+ years of professional graphic design experience.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a diverse range of design work across digital, print, and packaging.
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or related field.
• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools: Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, XD) and other relevant software.
• Experience with print-ready files and die lines
• Experience with simple motion design and video editing.
• Experience interpreting briefs to build creative content. 
• Knowledge of platform specifications and resizing for performance media.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational abilities.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to work with urgency while managing multiple deadlines.

WANTS:

• Experience in a family or privately held business

Benefits

• 401k Plan and up to 4% company matching
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Health Reimbursement Arrangement or Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) – Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Parental Leave
• Bereavement
• Short Term Disability
• Weekly paychecks
• Rewards & Recognition Programs
• Employee Referral Program
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Annual Bonus Program

THE COMPANY 

Website: www.nielsenmassey.com 

Nielsen-Massey is a leader in the specialty foods world, specifically in the production and marketing of the world’s finest vanillas and flavors. The company operates a branded consumer goods business (CPG/B2C) as well as a business-to-business (B2B) ingredient and flavor business.   The portfolio includes various forms of pure and natural vanilla ingredients, extracts, pastes, and powders plus other flavor extracts including: lemon, almond, chocolate, coffee, peppermint, and rosewater to wholesale, culinary, and industrial customers throughout the world. The global headquarters and state-of-the-art production facility are in Waukegan, Illinois, with an additional plant in the Netherlands.  The brand is well established with culinary professionals and big branded players as the premiere vanilla brand in the marketplace while the next phase of growth will come from expanding the brand to a broader base of consumers via an aggressive retail and eCommerce strategy as well as diversifying and expanding the ingredient and flavor business. 

Nielsen-Massey Vanillas (NMV) was founded in 1907 and is still owned by three members of the Nielsen family, who work as senior executives at the company. The fiduciary Board is composed of a majority of independent directors as well as the three family shareholders. The four independent members all have CEO experience in a variety of industries, including CPG, eCommerce and Industrial/ Manufacturing. 

The Company is committed to sustaining the plants, people and communities that supply their ingredients.   Since 1907, NMV has demonstrated its commitment to civic and social responsibility. The company’s Community Relations initiatives encompass three main objectives: building relationships with the communities in which they live and work; showing their commitment through financial contributions to charities in support of education, youth, veterans and the environment, actively promoting volunteer service among their employees -- and demonstrating as a team that they make a difference. 

NMV supports approximately 18 organizations that represent their mission-driven values. They published their first annual “Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibilities Report” in 2018. Some past ESG programs include the funding of a new Malagasy school and the construction of a solar-powered water pump in the Madagascar Village that grows Nielsen-Massey’s fair-trade vanilla.

In 2009, The Nielsen-Massey Foundation was founded with a mission to assist disadvantaged children and adults with education and leadership development, especially in the field of culinary arts. The Foundation also considers requests for assistance in the development of sustainable environmental practices or for programs benefiting people in countries of need. The Foundation’s board of directors consists of Craig, Beth and Matt Nielsen—third-generation owners of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas—and their mother, Camilla.

Throughout its more than 110-year history as a family business, NMV is proudly and fully committed to the ethical manner in it conducts business, including how employees and customers are treated.  As a company, NMV remains committed to honesty and integrity, as well as openness and respect for the rights and interests of its employees.  Employees are “treated like family,” in particular, with generous health care benefits.