Freelance Senior Designer.

CONTRACTSENIOR LEVELDESIGN

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