Graphic Design Jobs
Roles focused on visual and creative output: brand identities, graphics, illustrations, digital and print assets, and directing creative vision.
1,521 live design & creative jobs across 8 roles hiring now. The biggest are Graphic Designer (534), Creative Director (298), and Art Director (217). Median disclosed pay across the category is $145K USD from 386 postings that list a salary. 29% of listings are remote.
What are design & creative jobs?
Design and creative roles produce the visual output a brand ships: identity systems, campaign assets, illustration, packaging, and the art direction that keeps it coherent. The category spans hands-on production and the people who decide what gets produced.
What these roles have in common
All of these roles work from a brief and defend a visual point of view. Portfolio evidence carries more weight than credentials in almost every posting, and all of them collaborate with marketing rather than sitting apart from it.
How the roles differ
Graphic Designer, Visual Designer, Brand Designer, Illustrator, 3D Designer, Packaging Designer, Presentation Designer and Web Designer are the makers, split by medium. Art Director and Creative Director set the direction others execute. Creative Strategist works upstream of the visuals entirely, on the idea, and Creative Producer keeps the work moving.
Skills that transfer across the category
Typography, layout and colour, the Adobe and Figma toolchain, and the ability to take feedback without losing the concept. Medium is easier to switch than seniority: a print-heavy designer moves to digital more readily than a designer moves to directing.
Where these careers lead
The usual ladder runs designer to senior designer to Art Director to Creative Director. Sideways moves into Motion Design, Brand Management, or Creative Strategy are common for people who want less production work.
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What jobs can you do as a graphic designer?
The design & creative roles we currently track hiring are Graphic Designer (534 open), Creative Director (298 open), Art Director (217 open), Brand Designer (202 open), Creative Strategist (148 open), and Visual Designer (59 open). Each has its own board, salary report, and market breakdown.
What do design and creative jobs pay?
Across 386 design & creative postings on our board that disclose pay, the median is $145K USD per year, with the middle half between $106K and $188K.