Senior Graphic Designer (Creative Brief / Direction)

Role Overview

TasteMakers is looking for a Senior Graphic Designer (Creative Brief / Direction) to help ideate and direct creative work across multiple mediums, with a strong focus on drafting creative briefs (prompts) and providing actionable design feedback.

Responsibilities

• Create and iterate creative briefs that translate brand/product/experience intent into concrete visual directions.
• Provide critique and design feedback across iterations, including structuring feedback for clarity and actionability.
• Direct creative models through prompts/briefs to guide design outputs toward aesthetic and usability goals.
• Develop strong visual direction across assets spanning print and digital (e.g., Web, Product, Slides, Brand, Gaming).
• Mentor or guide creative decisions during team critiques / design reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional design experience.
• Strong experience writing creative briefs (prompts) and using them to drive design outputs.
• Professional capability across multiple design disciplines (not limited to one specialty).
• Demonstrated ability to give professional design feedback and run design reviews.
• Structured high-level briefing experience (e.g., translating abstract brand values into visual rules/boundaries).
• Experience providing direction/feedback, including supporting or mentoring designers.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AI evaluation and/or AI-native creative workflows (implied by the role’s brief/prompt and creative model feedback focus).
• Broad familiarity with creative tooling and design systems.

Engagement & Logistics

• Remote-first and async work.
• Consultant/freelance engagement: 15–40 hours/week depending on project workload.
• Paid via independent contractor (1099) with highly competitive, market-based rates.

Process

• Apply via the Notion page.
• Complete an ~45-minute Creative Brief Assessment (skills-based; unpaid) covering prompting/brief creation and critique.
• A successful assessment may lead to offer + project placement and onboarding steps (background check, SOW, MFA).