Junior Graphic Designer

Reports to: Head of Design

Summary/Objective

The Junior Graphic Designer at Luci supports the Design Team by creating clear, compelling, and highly crafted design assets across platforms. This role is hands-on and production-forward, with a strong focus on presentation design (InDesign decks, animated PowerPoint and Keynote) and social media assets (LinkedIn and Instagram), plus support for print and digital graphics.

You bring a strong eye for typography, composition, and layout, and you work with care, speed, and accuracy.

Why This Role?

This role is a great fit for a designer who wants to build real depth in presentation craft and multi-format design systems while learning the fundamentals of experience design and environmental graphics. You'll help shape the work clients see most often—decks, submissions, and polished visuals that carry our ideas into the world—and grow your skills in visual hierarchy, storytelling, brand consistency, and production detail alongside experienced designers and project teams.

Essential Job Functions

Presentation Design & Storytelling

• Design and format decks in InDesign, PowerPoint, and Keynote with strong hierarchy, pacing, and consistency.
• Apply Luci's branding and style guidelines across applications.
• Build and maintain slide systems and templates that support team-wide efficiency and quality.
• Create PowerPoint animations that clarify ideas and add energy without distraction.
• Translate complex information into clean, scannable visuals (charts, timelines, diagrams, tables).
• Prepare reliable, polished exports for client review and delivery (PPTX, PDF).

Social Media & Digital Asset Production

• Create and maintain all social templates following Luci's brand and style guides.
• Retouch, edit, and crop professional digital images in Photoshop or similar to enhance color, composition, and visual quality.
• Design social content across formats (feed, stories, reels, cover frames, carousels, event graphics).
• Produce fast, accurate variations and cutdowns while upholding brand integrity.

Print Assets & Submission Support

• Support the team with print-ready layouts (one-pagers, posters, leave-behinds, signage-style pieces).
• Prep files for print production (bleeds, trims, packaging, retouching, and resolution checks).

Quality Control & Proofreading (Strong Bonus)

• Proofread for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and consistency while designing.
• Catch issues in names, dates, captions, labels, and footnotes before final delivery.
• Run final checks for alignment, spacing, export settings, and brand accuracy across internal documents and client-facing submissions.

Collaboration & Studio Practices

• Work closely with the Design Team, Partnerships and Strategy Development Team, and Project Leadership to meet scope, timing, and quality expectations.
• Take and apply feedback quickly, keeping momentum during revisions.
• Maintain strong file hygiene: naming, versioning, styles, links, and clean handoffs.

Qualifications & Skills

• 2–3 years of professional design experience (agency, studio, in-house, or freelance).
• Portfolio (required) showing strong presentation design, plus social and print examples.
• Exceptional command of typography (spacing, hierarchy, readability, craft).
• Strong sense of composition and visual rhythm across multi-page layouts.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Strong PowerPoint skills, including animation; Keynote a plus.
• Comfort working across formats and specs, from social sizes to large-format print.
• Comfort working with team members across leadership levels for reviews, feedback, and oversight.
• High attention to detail, strong organization, and pride in getting the "last 10%" right.

Preferred:

• Interest in experience design and environmental graphics (signage, wayfinding, large-format storytelling).
• Basic motion tools (After Effects) or strong animation instincts in PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with Miro or other collaborative tools.
• Experience with brand systems and template-based design.
• Website maintenance and/or Webflow/CSS experience.

Work Environment & Travel Expectations

This position operates in a professional studio environment with three days on-site at one of our offices in Chicago, New York City, or Seattle, involving close coordination across disciplines. Occasional travel to client sites, installations, or other Luci offices may be required.