About the Role
AbelCine is seeking a Junior Visual Designer to join a fast-paced in-house creative team supporting a consulting client. This role involves producing high-quality visual content across digital, brand, presentation, and marketing initiatives. The ideal candidate is a designer tested in real-world environments, enjoys diverse creative challenges, and seeks growth within a high-performing team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-level MAM/DAM systems.
- Architect end-to-end ingest workflows for video, audio, and ancillary media.
- Oversee and participate in daily ingest operations, ensuring accuracy and proper metadata tagging.
- Maintain real-time reporting dashboards on ingest metrics.
- Evaluate existing post-production and media-management processes and drive system-level improvements.
- Collaborate with Engineering, IT, Production, and Post-Production teams to define requirements for new tools and infrastructure upgrades.
- Configure and administer MAM/DAM platforms.
- Implement and maintain scalable storage systems with strong backup and security compliance.
- Build and manage automated workflows and file-transfer pipelines.
- Develop and enforce ingest standards, naming conventions, and delivery specs.
- Conduct high-level QC on incoming and outgoing media and create preventive solutions.
- Serve as the technical lead for on-site or remote ingest operations during live events.
- Train internal teams on MAM usage, ingest workflows, and metadata tagging.
- Stay up to date on industry trends in media pipelines, AI metadata extraction, and cloud-based workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 1–3 years of professional design experience in an agency, in-house, production, freelance, or consulting environment.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating real-world, professional work experience across a variety of mediums and project types.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Motion graphics and animation experience is a plus.
- Exposure to art direction and participation in larger creative campaigns is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of visual design principles, typography, layout, branding, and visual storytelling.
- Versatile designer comfortable working across digital, presentation, social media, marketing, and brand design projects.
- Excellent organizational, project management, and time-management skills.
- Self-motivated and accountable, with the ability to work independently.
- Demonstrated initiative, resourcefulness, and problem-solving ability in fast-paced environments.
- Adaptable and comfortable working in an environment where priorities may evolve.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with a positive attitude and team-oriented approach.
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality work under deadlines.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a computer.
- Dexterity for using design tools and equipment.
- Ability to distinguish colors, fonts, and images.
- Ability to concentrate on detailed tasks.
- Occasional lifting of light equipment.
- Standing or walking for short periods.
Skills
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Motion graphics
- Animation
- Art direction
- Visual design principles
- Typography
- Layout
- Branding
- Visual storytelling
- Digital design
- Presentation design
- Social media design
- Marketing design
- Brand design
- Organizational skills
- Project management
- Time-management skills
- Communication skills
- Collaboration skills
- Problem-solving
- MAM/DAM systems
- Ingest workflows
- Metadata tagging
- Storage systems
- Automated workflows
- File-transfer pipelines
- Telestream Vantage
- Signiant
- Aspera
- API-based automation
- CatDV
- Dalet
- IPV Curator
- Adobe Experience Manager
Location
- On-Site - Midtown, New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-Time Employment
Experience Level
- Junior
- 1–3 years of professional design experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $85,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Package
- Highly subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans
- Short-term & long-term disability benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid time off, including caregiving and personal leave options
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare & dependent care
- Supplemental health insurance coverage
- Commuter benefits & gym membership discounts
- Employee Assistance Program & life insurance
- Equipment borrowing program + discounts on gear purchases
- Access to professional development resources
About the Company
- AbelCine is a leading provider of products, services, and staffing solutions to the production, broadcast, media, and content creation industries.
- We partner with some of the most recognized organizations in media, entertainment, finance, technology, and corporate communications.
Equal Opportunity
- At AbelCine, we believe in fostering a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment. We are committed to equal-opportunity hiring and value a team that brings a range of perspectives, skills, and experiences to our company.
