Senior Designer

The Senior Designer is a hands-on creative professional responsible for developing high-quality visual communications that strengthen the Taher brand and support the company's business, operational, recruiting, and employee-development initiatives.

This position transforms ideas and business needs into compelling, practical creative solutions across print, digital, presentation, environmental, and multimedia applications. The Senior Designer works closely with Marketing and partners throughout Taher to ensure materials are visually engaging, professionally executed, consistent with brand standards, and appropriate for the audience.

Serving a geographically dispersed organization, the Senior Designer must be comfortable moving between major creative projects and day-to-day production needs while maintaining a high standard of craftsmanship, consistency, organization, and responsiveness.

Essential Responsibilities

Creative Design & Production

• Design and produce high-quality materials for digital and print applications, including presentations, sales collateral, proposals, brochures, signage, posters, recruiting materials, training communications, event materials, and internal communications.
• Translate creative briefs, business objectives, and stakeholder requests into effective visual concepts and finished materials.
• Develop creative solutions that communicate complex information clearly while maintaining strong visual impact.
• Prepare production-ready files and coordinate with printers, vendors, and other production partners when necessary.
• Maintain strong attention to detail in typography, layout, imagery, color, composition, and final production quality.

Brand Stewardship

• Apply and reinforce Taher brand standards across company communications and creative materials.
• Help establish and maintain practical templates, design systems, and visual standards that create greater consistency across the organization.
• Maintain organized creative files, templates, photography, graphics, logos, and other brand assets.
• Review materials for visual consistency and provide creative guidance to internal partners.
• Help evolve Taher's visual identity while maintaining appropriate continuity with the company's established brand.

Digital & Multimedia Design

• Develop creative assets for Taher websites, social media, email communications, digital advertising, recruiting campaigns, and other digital channels.
• Create graphics and visual storytelling content supporting Taher's food, people, client partnerships, culinary innovation, and company initiatives.
• Edit and prepare photography for use across digital and print platforms.
• Support the development of short-form video, motion graphics, and other multimedia content.
• Design materials responsive to the requirements of different platforms, audiences, and formats.

Taher's current creative leadership description specifically calls for visual work supporting K--12 education, business and industry, manufacturing, recruiting, Food4Life, employee stories, culinary innovation, and client partnerships, so I would retain that breadth in this role. [Please Post | Outlook]

Business & Operational Support

• Partner with Marketing, Sales, Operations, Human Resources, Employee Development, and other departments to develop materials supporting business priorities.
• Create client-facing materials that help Taher effectively communicate its capabilities, programs, culture, and value proposition.
• Support employer-branding and recruiting initiatives through compelling visual materials.
• Develop internal communications and employee-facing materials that improve clarity, engagement, and consistency.
• Support company meetings, conferences, leadership initiatives, client presentations, special events, and other organizational priorities.

This cross-functional structure is consistent with Taher's existing creative role, which specifically identifies partnership with HR on employer branding and recruiting, and with Sales and Operations on client-facing materials. [Please Post | Outlook]

Project Management

• Manage multiple creative projects simultaneously from concept through final delivery.
• Establish realistic timelines and communicate project status, requirements, and potential challenges to internal partners.
• Prioritize competing requests based on business needs and established deadlines.
• Coordinate with outside vendors, photographers, printers, agencies, and other creative resources as needed.
• Maintain organized project files and documentation to make creative assets easy to locate, update, and reuse.

Creative Leadership

• Bring strong design judgment and creative problem-solving to projects while remaining responsive to business objectives and stakeholder needs.
• Present design concepts and explain creative recommendations clearly and professionally.
• Provide constructive design guidance and support to colleagues producing branded communications.
• Identify opportunities to improve Taher's templates, workflows, design standards, and creative processes.
• Stay current on design practices, technology, production techniques, and emerging creative tools.
• Use AI-assisted creative tools responsibly when appropriate, maintaining human review, brand integrity, accuracy, and confidentiality.

Responsible use of AI-assisted creative tools with human review is also included in Taher's current creative-role qualifications.

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Digital Media, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional graphic design or visual communications experience in an agency, in-house creative team, corporate marketing department, or similar environment.
• Strong professional portfolio demonstrating excellence in layout, typography, branding, digital design, and visual storytelling.
• Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Experience preparing creative materials for both digital distribution and professional print production.
• Strong understanding of brand systems, typography, composition, color, photography, and production standards.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-location organization.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to receive feedback, incorporate revisions, and appropriately balance creative recommendations with business requirements.

Taher's related creative position currently calls for Adobe Creative Cloud or comparable professional tools, strong writing and visual judgment, project-management capability, and the ability to handle multiple priorities across a geographically dispersed organization. [Please Post | Outlook]

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in foodservice, hospitality, K--12 education, business and industry, consumer brands, or another multi-location organization.
• Experience designing food-related, hospitality, or lifestyle content.
• Photography and photo-editing experience.
• Experience with video editing or motion graphics.
• Experience creating executive presentations and client-facing sales materials.
• Familiarity with web content management systems and digital accessibility principles.
• Experience supporting social media, recruitment marketing, or employer-branding initiatives.

Foodservice, hospitality, education, multi-location businesses, food photography, video, and employer-branding experience are also preferences reflected in Taher's existing creative job-description materials. [Please Post | Outlook]

Core Competencies

• Creative Excellence
• Visual Storytelling
• Brand Stewardship
• Attention to Detail
• Collaboration
• Customer and Client Focus
• Project Management
• Communication
• Adaptability
• Organization and Follow-Through
• Creative Problem-Solving

Measures of Success

Success in this position will be demonstrated through:

• Consistent, professional execution of the Taher brand across materials and channels.
• High-quality creative work delivered accurately and on schedule.
• Effective creative support for Taher's operations, sales, recruiting, employee-development, client, and marketing initiatives.
• Improved consistency and usability of company templates and creative assets.
• Strong collaboration with internal stakeholders and external production partners.
• Creative solutions that make Taher's food, people, programs, and client partnerships easier to understand and more compelling to audiences.

EOE/AA