Associate Design Director

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care for all people, as well as the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With more than 600 health centers across the country, Planned Parenthood organizations serve all patients with care and compassion, with respect, and without judgment, striving to create equitable access to health care. Through health centers, programs in schools and communities, and online resources, Planned Parenthood is a trusted source of reliable education and information that allows people to make informed health decisions. We do all this because we care passionately about helping people lead healthier lives.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that supports the independently incorporated Planned Parenthood affiliates operating health centers across the U.S. Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit membership organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Action Fund engages in educational, advocacy, and electoral activity, including grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and voter education.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) seek a collaborative and skillful Associate Design Director. This job reports to the Creative Director, Advocacy in the Brand Department of PPFA/PPAF. The Brand Team works to develop and deliver a clear and culturally competent brand expression that strengthens the relationship with our audience, broadens the breadth of our equity, values, and beliefs, and drives the organization’s external strategies for shifting culture toward positive sexual and reproductive health care and rights. The Brand Team is part of the Communications and Culture Division at PPFA.

Purpose: The Associate Design Director will support the federation’s brand integrity, guidelines, and innovation through designed solutions and campaign work while establishing visual direction from conception to execution across multiple channels. The Associate Design Director will conceptualize, create, and present high-level visual strategies and design systems for cross-organizational initiatives in collaboration with and under the guidance of the Creative Directors and Brand Senior Leadership.

Delivery:

• Work closely with creative directors, designers, and additional members of the Brand Department to support the ever-demanding and developing initiatives across PP’s advocacy and healthcare verticals.
• Build, articulate, and implement design guidelines and visual standards for health care, education, advocacy, and electoral campaigns and initiatives.
• Design and/or design direct on-brand materials across a range of digital and print mediums.
• Provide clear design direction to in-house designers and external freelancers/agencies to ensure brand consistency and effective design solutions.
• Review and provide objective, insightful, and solution-oriented feedback on creative deliverables from a variety of teams and their vendors across the organization.
• Build and uphold creative and organizational processes in collaboration with the team.

Engagement:

• Lead designers in ensuring on-time delivery of a myriad of creative requests from various internal teams in collaboration with creative operations and project managers.
• Embrace a consensus-driven, solution-oriented style of creating work; demonstrate empathy and understanding; collaborate amongst diverse communities and individuals.
• Facilitate the teaching of designers and non-designers the value of the PPFA/PPAF brand with openness and generosity; listen to and discuss a variety of perspectives and solutions while maintaining a point of view and dedication to delivering organizational objectives.
• Inspire top performance in others and exhibit a willingness to pitch in / jump in.
• Navigate and lead during moments of ambiguity; embrace nimbleness and flexibility; create clarity and understanding.
• Operate in a fast-paced and demanding environment; address rapid response needs from multiple stakeholders simultaneously.
• Juggle an often large volume of work effectively, balancing tight turnaround projects with long-lead work ensuring that projects are on track and that teams are aware of project status.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• BFA, MFA, or similar accreditation in Graphic Design and/or Visual Communications preferred.
• Minimum of seven years of graphic design experience in-house or at a branding, design, advertising, or communications agency.
• Two years of design direction experience preferred and/or experience mentoring designers.
• Experience building brand guidelines within a larger brand system.
• Extensive portfolio demonstrating design excellence and strong prowess in typography, composition, and color.
• Ability to design for an expansive breadth of deliverables including social media, merchandise, experiential, web, presentations, print, brand assets (logo marks, icons, and graphic standards), video, and more.
• Experience and passion in designing for and to accessibility standards.
• High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Slack, and Google Products.
• Illustration skills are a plus.
• Proven track record of ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects in a highly matrixed environment.
• Experience working effectively and efficiently with remote teams.
• Extremely organized, process-oriented, and proactive; committed to asset organization and processes
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and juggling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to proactively develop solutions to problems and challenges; know when to ask for help and support.
• Strong oral and written communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong, effective partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders to work effectively across differences, soliciting feedback and input from significant stakeholder groups.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to quickly changing priorities and ambiguous situations.
• Solid equity lens, including an understanding of how oppression impacts people’s ability to access their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Commitment to PPFA’s mission and diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly surrounding race equity.
• Commitment to Planned Parenthood’s mission of promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health.

TRAVEL: 5% of the job requires travel

ON-CALL: 5% of the job requires flexibility to be on-call outside of standard work hours

$97,000 – $102,000 a year

Total offer package to include generous vacation + sick leave + paid holidays, individual/family provided medical, dental and vision benefits effective day 1, life insurance, short/long term disability, paid family leave and 401k. We also offer voluntary opt-in for Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Transportation/Commuter accounts.

We value a truly diverse workforce and a culture of inclusivity and belonging. Our goal is to attract qualified candidates and encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We’re committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.

PPFA participates in the E-Verify program and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Roles that are denoted as NYC, DC, or both will work a hybrid schedule, requiring 2-3 days per week in the office unless the role is denoted as onsite, which requires working onsite full time or 5 days per week.