Production Designer

Noisy Creek is looking for a talented, detail-oriented designer to help bring our publications, campaigns, and creative projects to life across print and digital platforms. This is an opportunity for an emerging designer with a strong creative eye and a solid foundation in design fundamentals. You’ll collaborate with our creative team to produce editorial layouts, advertising, marketing materials, and other assets for our family of publications, including The Stranger, Portland Mercury, and Chicago Reader. 

We’re looking for someone who pairs precision and discipline with creativity and initiative—someone who understands the rules of good design, knows when to break them, and takes pride in getting the details right. You should be comfortable working within established visual systems while bringing fresh thinking to the work, exploring multiple creative directions, and recognizing opportunities to make a project better. You’ll take ownership of your assignments, manage the details with care, and help ensure our creative team produces consistently excellent work. This is an entry-level position, but the work matters, and we’re looking for someone whose talent, curiosity, and drive will make a meaningful contribution from day one.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Editorial layout
• Sales materials, such as sell-sheets, print issue marketing promo, general sales promo, and event promotional materials across both digital and print formats
• Print and digital ad build-outs for both outside clientele and internal promotion
• Upload and maintain the Noisy Creek issue archive on Issuu, including adding all Stranger and Mercury back issues 
• Creating and maintaining Google Slides decks

• Meticulous attention to detail
• Someone who strives to get the job done right the first time
• Solid understanding of design fundamentals, especially with typography, hierarchy, and spacing
• Knowledge of using the grid but also knowing when to break the grid
• Disciplined enough to let best practice guide you, but daring enough to know when to break all the rules
• Initiative to take on tasks before being asked to do them
• Ability to work as a team player but also works well independently
• Curiosity mindset
• Ability to build out multiple project iterations at the beginning to showcase a variety of design directions
• Strong design portfolio that shows a variety of design prowess across multiple platforms and assets – both print and digital

This is a hybrid, union position. 

Benefits

Noisy Creek is proud to offer a robust, comprehensive benefits package that invests in your health, financial security, and overall well-being. Employees enjoy health, dental, and vision coverage, a retirement savings Plan to help you build for the future, generous paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program for extra peace of mind, and a Flexible Spending Account to help stretch your healthcare dollars further.

Why Join Noisy Creek?

We're a vibrant, creative team that believes the more diverse voices at the table, the better the conversation—and the work! We know not everyone receives the same professional or educational opportunities, so if you don't meet all the above qualifications but still think you'd be a good fit, please consider applying.

Noisy Creek is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

About Noisy Creek

Noisy Creek launched in mid-2024 with an innovative model to invigorate local media across the United States for our democracy, civic engagement, and thriving local communities. It currently operates The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, the Chicago Reader, EverOut.com, and Noisy Creek.