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About the Role
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) seeks an experienced Design Manager to produce high-quality design work across digital products, print publications, and brand touchpoints, ensuring adherence to CFR's brand and quality standards. This hands-on role is ideal for a designer who excels at executing polished, on-brand work at high volume and craft.
Responsibilities
- Produce high-quality design work across digital products, branding, editorial features, print publications, and organizational campaigns.
- Support the Creative Director in reviewing work across seniority levels to provide actionable design and production feedback.
- Take direct design ownership of complex or high-visibility initiatives requiring senior creative judgment.
- Partner with freelance illustrators, graphic designers, and other contractors on briefing, reviewing deliverables, and maintaining quality and brand consistency.
- Maintain and evolve CFR's design documentation for usability by staff, consultants, and creative partners.
- Develop templates and reusable patterns across digital and print-adjacent surfaces to reduce rework and enable consistent output at scale.
- Partner with cross-functional teams across Digital, Editorial, Programs, and Communications to ensure design work meets and matures brand standards.
- Perform any other duties or tasks as assigned or required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 7 years of design experience across brand, digital, and print surfaces, with demonstrated senior-level creative ownership.
- Portfolio demonstrating both executional craft and the ability to shape design direction across a range of deliverables.
- Expert Figma proficiency, including component architecture, variables/tokens, shared libraries, and design system documentation.
- Demonstrated experience designing and producing high-quality print materials, with expertise in typography, layout, and print production.
- Demonstrated experience building, maintaining, or scaling brand standards, style guides, and/or a design system at an organizational scale.
- Experience collaborating with freelance illustrators, designers, and other contractors on production workflows.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, able to articulate design rationale clearly across disciplines and stakeholder groups.
- Experience in publishing, media, journalism, or mission-driven organizations preferred.
- Experience designing for both editorial and digital product contexts is a plus.
- An interest in global affairs is a plus.
- Resume required.
- Cover letter stating your interest in the position required.
- Portfolio of recent design work (digital and print samples) required.
Skills
- Figma proficiency
- Typography
- Layout
- Print production
- Brand standards
- Style guides
- Design systems
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
Location
- New York City, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- 7+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 – $140,000
Benefits
- Outstanding benefits package
About the Company
- The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is committed to fostering a foreign policy community in the United States that is more representative of American society.
- CFR recognizes that diverse backgrounds and perspectives contribute to broader, more informed participation in the foreign policy debate and lead to an enhanced understanding of the world and the United States’ role therein.
- CFR is dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout its work and workplace by building a more diverse membership and staff, producing and dispensing thoughtful analysis on a broad range of foreign policy issues, and developing relevant, wide-reaching programming that also serves to expand the foreign policy talent pipeline to underrepresented populations.