Senior Graphic Designer

Crimson Education is the world’s leading college admissions consultancy, with over 1,320 Ivy League offers and 2,140 to the US Top 15. We help ambitious students gain admission to the world’s top universities through expert-led guidance and proven, data-driven strategies. Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers.

What sets us apart is our unmatched scale and expertise. We have the largest team of Former Admissions Officers and Strategists globally. Every student is matched with a carefully-chosen team of admissions experts who zero in on different parts of their college application — from essays to extracurriculars — ensuring every detail is expertly executed.

We’ve raised over $89M USD from top-tier global investors, including Tiger Global, and have expanded into over 30 countries. We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal — read the article here .

The Role

We’re hiring a Senior Graphic Designer to take creative performance to the next level in our highest-priority markets. This is a senior individual contributor role — you won’t be managing a team (yet), but you’ll act as the creative lead on high-stakes campaigns, partnering directly with our most strategic marketers to drive results.

You’ll own the development of performance creative across paid channels, landing pages, email, and social — helping ensure every asset we ship is sharp, strategic, and effective. You’ll also play a key role in shaping Crimson’s global creative standard and embedding AI into our design workflow.

What are the main responsibilities for this role?

• Act as the lead designer for our top-performing markets, developing high-impact creative across digital and offline channels.
  
• Own paid ad creative — including static, video, carousel, and motion — optimising for performance in close collaboration with country marketers and performance marketers.
  
• Translate brand guidelines into sharp, localised campaign assets that feel distinctive and drive results.
  
• Set the quality bar — reviewing and refining work to ensure visual clarity, consistency, and conversion effectiveness.
  
• Leverage generative AI tools to boost speed, experimentation, and creative output.
  
• Contribute to design systems and templates that help local teams scale without losing fidelity.
  
• Play a key role in the future structure and leadership of our design function.
  

What skills and experience are required?

• 3–5 years of graphic design experience, with a focus on campaign and ad creative.
  
• A portfolio that shows sharp, high-performing digital work — especially for paid campaigns.
  
• Strong grasp of performance design principles (i.e. attention, hierarchy, clarity, and action).
  
• Mastery of Canva, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite
  
• Comfort using generative AI tools in design workflows
  
• A growth mindset — you’re confident owning briefs end-to-end and suggesting smarter solutions.
• A leadership orientation — you don’t need to manage a team to raise the standard around you.
  

What Success Looks Like

• Campaigns in key markets consistently beat benchmarks due to standout campaign and ad creative.

• You become the go-to creative partner for senior marketers — trusted for both vision and execution.

• Other designers seek your input to lift their work; your influence shapes the creative culture.

• You champion AI tooling and embed it meaningfully into our production pipeline.

• You’re on track to take on broader design leadership as we grow.

Why work for Crimson?

• Rapidly growing start up, with a flexible working environment where you will be empowered to structure how you work
• Limitless development and exposure - our internal promotions/role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year
• $1000 individual training budget per year, we love to ‘Level Up’ (it’s one of our core values)!
• Psychologist on staff
• Insightful fireside chats and workshops to help support our high-performing and ambitious team
• Radical Candor is a feedback approach we live by
• We’re a global player with 28 markets (and growing) across the globe. Most roles have the option to work from one of our many offices or remotely!

If you're passionate about growing in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and want to work with cutting-edge technology, then we'd love to hear from you!