Digital Creative Specialist

Job Description

YOUR ROLE: As a hands-on creative, you'll lead the visual and motion direction of our core campaigns. You'll design high-end animated assets, work autonomously on ad creative and video, and help define the visual voice of our initiatives. You're expected to bring vision, technical expertise, and performance orientation to drive growth. This role is designed for a creative professional who wants to grow into senior creative leadership. You'll have opportunities to take on increasing ownership of campaigns and visual direction as our initiatives expand.

At CatholicVote, you won't be just another "creative on a team." You'll be joining a remote-first, mission-driven movement at a once-in-a-generation moment: the 250th anniversary of America's founding. We're small but mighty, which means that your ideas don't get buried in bureaucracy. They shape national campaigns that reach millions. If you thrive on fast-paced creative challenges, collaboration with smart, passionate colleagues, and the chance to make your work matter, then you'll feel at home here.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
- Architect visual campaign creative for big initiatives, turning them into cross-platform visual campaigns.
- Proactively lead trend-based experiments (interactive video, AR effects, animated templates).
- Maintain brand/creative guidelines and visual consistency at a strategic level.
- Own creative file systems, version control, and set up standards for reusable templates.
- Serve as a visual thought partner: help scope creative efforts, feedback on visual direction, pitch visuals aligned with strategic goals.
- Develop multiple creative variants for ad campaigns and run creative testing, optimizing based on analytics in partnership with the paid media specialist.

WHAT YOU NEED:
- Passion for the mission of CatholicVote
- 5+ years in digital design, content creation, or motion design roles (e.g., digital content creator, social media creative, motion designer, video editor).
- Deep portfolio showing strong digital creativity, social-first formats and integrated marketing campaign work.
- Strong experience in Adobe Creative Cloud: Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere. Bonus: knowledge of Lottie, Animate, interactive motion formats.
- Experience working on social media campaigns and performance creatives, comfortable iterating based on analytics.
- Strong trend awareness and ability to push content boundaries.
- Excellent project ownership, ability to manage creative pipelines and timelines.
- Remote work discipline, exceptional communication, mission alignment.

WHAT WE OFFER:
- Competitive Salary: commensurate with experience.
- 401(k) Plan: with organizational matching for your long-term security.
- Generous PTO & Holidays: We encourage real rest and renewal, and not just unused vacation days.
- Remote-first Flexibility: 100% work from home, with occasional travel to team retreats and major events.
- Mentorship & Growth: collaborate with senior creatives and leaders, gaining feedback and the freedom to experiment with new tools and formats.
- Purpose Beyond a Paycheck: Every asset you design directly fuels a cultural movement to defend faith, freedom, and family.

PHYSICAL JOB CONDITIONS:
- Work may be performed seated for long periods of time with close PC and keyboard work.
- Normal office environment and noise levels. Average lift less than 10 lbs.

Our Mission is too important to limit your contributions. We are a team committed to a higher calling. As a CatholicVote employee, you will be expected to answer that call by performing various duties that may be required in order to fulfill the mission we have set out to accomplish.

Please note: CatholicVote reserves the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment. Continued employment remains on an "at-will" basis.

About the Employer

MISSION: To inspire every Catholic in America to live and defend the truths of our faith in the public square.

VISION: To be the most recognized and respected voice for Catholicism in American public life and in so doing bring about a renewal of the culture of our land.