Freelance Senior Designer
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Idea Peddler
Austin, TX, US
Summary
The Senior Designer will develop and execute creative advertising campaigns and marketing materials for tourism and hospitality clients. This includes translating strategic direction into visual solutions and producing polished, production-ready deliverables across multiple channels.
Job Description
Idea Peddler is seeking a freelance Senior Designer to support destination, tourism, hospitality, and place-based marketing initiatives.
This is a hands-on design role for someone who can both develop and execute creative work. We are looking for a designer with strong agency experience who can partner with Creative Directors to explore visual territories, develop campaign concepts, and produce polished, production-ready creative across multiple channels.
Additional consideration will be given to candidates with direct destination marketing organization (DMO), convention and visitors bureau (CVB), hotel, resort, or tourism industry experience.
Required Experience
- 5–7+ years of advertising agency experience
- Strong portfolio demonstrating advertising campaign development and execution
- Experience working with tourism, destination marketing, hospitality, hotel, resort, attraction, or travel-related brands
- Proven ability to create work across digital, print, social, outdoor, presentations, and experiential applications
- Expert proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Acrobat
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing advertising campaigns and marketing materials
- Developing visual territories and creative springboards
- Creating mood boards, inspiration boards, and concept explorations
- Translating strategic direction into compelling visual solutions
- Building client-ready presentations and pitch materials
- Producing production-ready files and final deliverables
- Collaborating closely with Creative Directors, writers, strategists, and account teams
Ideal Candidate
- Strong design craft and attention to detail
- Comfortable moving between concept development and execution
- Able to work independently with minimal oversight
- Experienced presenting and discussing creative work
- Curious, collaborative, and capable of abstract thinking
- Able to take a loose strategic direction and quickly turn it into visual possibilities
Portfolio Requirements
Please submit:
- Portfolio website or PDF
- 3–5 examples of advertising campaign work
- Examples of both conceptual exploration and final execution
- Brief explanation of your role on each project
Idea Peddler is a full-service agency that unites big agency expertise with boutique agency service. We create bespoke campaigns that deliver on clients’ unique goals and follow through with exceptional execution. In uncertain times, ideas win.
Ideas that inspire. Ideas that shift behavior. And ideas that create growth. Idea Peddler holds true the promise of doing good work for nice people.
Founded
2011
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Advertising Services
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Idea Peddler is a full-service agency that unites big agency expertise with boutique agency service. We create bespoke campaigns that deliver on clients’ unique goals and follow through with exceptional execution. In uncertain times, ideas win.
Ideas that inspire. Ideas that shift behavior. And ideas that create growth. Idea Peddler holds true the promise of doing good work for nice people.
Founded
2011
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Advertising Services
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
