Digital Experience Designer I
The Digital Experience Designer I at Confidential Client is an entry-level role focused on designing, building, and implementing audience-facing digital content across various environments such as airports and healthcare. The role involves hands-on creation and testing of digital signage and web content, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and supporting customers through documentation and training. This position offers growth through guided learning and application of design principles, technical tools, and content management systems in a professional services setting.
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About the role
The Digital Experience Designer I is an entry-level, hands-on design and implementation role with Confidential Client’s digital experience team. You will help determine audience needs, design clear and engaging content, build the experience in supported digital-signage and web tools, test it in the intended environment, and support customers and teammates during handoff.
This role carries assignments from concept through implementation, testing, documentation, training, and delivery with regular direction and review as you develop independence.
What you’ll do
- Review project requirements and identify audience needs; ask clarifying questions about content, setting, and constraints before designing.
- Organize content and design layouts, graphics, motion, video, data displays, or interfaces required by each project.
- Explain design decisions and iterate based on feedback.
- Build and configure content in supported digital-signage and content-management platforms following team methods.
- Learn and apply basic web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and perform browser testing to build simple web content with guidance.
- Produce early samples for review; test on target screens, players, and browsers for resolution, orientation, and schedules; resolve issues and re-test.
- Document work so teammates can support or update it. Prepare and deliver training (walkthroughs, guides, recordings) as assigned.
- Communicate progress, missing information, and risks to the team; obtain approvals before releasing customer-facing work.
- Reuse lessons learned and suggest process improvements for recurring tasks.
What you bring
Required
- A bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, interaction design, digital media design, or a closely related design-focused discipline.
- A portfolio demonstrating hierarchy, typography, composition, color, consistency, and information organization for an audience. Be prepared to explain assignments and iterations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; attention to detail; ability to collaborate with customers and technical teammates.
- Willingness and ability to learn unfamiliar software and technical tools, accept feedback, and follow through on assigned tasks.
Preferred
- Experience with digital signage, content-management systems, web-content tools, presentation systems, or low-code/no-code platforms.
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
- Design experience with motion, video, interactive content, data visualization, or content for physical spaces and audio-visual systems.
Level & expectations
- Own assigned work within a project while learning established methods and tools under regular review from experienced team members and leadership.
- Ask for clarification when objectives, priorities, or authority are unclear.
- Obtain approval before releasing customer-facing work.
- Learn from feedback, apply it to later work, and become increasingly independent.
Why join Confidential Client
You’ll see your designs run on customer screens and learn how to build, test, and maintain content. Collaborate with designers, engineers, developers, project managers, and support staff on projects across airports, manufacturing, healthcare, and corporate environments.
Compensation & benefits
- Salary: $48,000 – $58,000 per year (full-time)
- Benefits for eligible full-time employees may include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and health reimbursement options
- Company-paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Professional development opportunities
All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of background check and drug screening as permitted by applicable law. Confidential Client maintains a safe and trustworthy workplace and follows applicable U.S. employment laws.
Key skills & search terms (for candidates)
- Digital Experience Designer
- Digital signage / content management
- Visual communication / graphic design
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript (entry-level)
- Data visualization and motion design
- Lewis Center, OH
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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