Senior Designer (Brand Systems)
Summary
Senior designer who stewards Museum of the Bible's visual identity — building brand guidelines, templates, and scalable design systems spanning marketing, exhibits, signage, print, and digital. Hands-on role using Figma with CMS collaboration (WordPress/Prismic), on-site in Washington, DC and reporting to the Lead Designer.
Date: 07/13/2026
Location: On site, Washington D.C.
Job Title: Senior Designer (Web & Brand Systems)
Employment Status: Full time
Job Title: Senior Designer (Web & Brand Systems)
Employment Status: Full time
FLSA: Exempt
Reports to: Lead Designer
Salary: $90,000 to $100,000 Annually, Depending on Experience and Adjusted to Local Market Rates*
The Senior Designer (Brand Systems) is responsible for developing, maintaining, and evolving Museum of the Bible’s visual identity across all branded experiences. This role ensures that the museum presents a consistent, high-quality brand expression across marketing, exhibits, environmental graphics, print, digital, signage, campaigns, and other guest-facing communications.
This is a strategic, hands-on design role focused on stewarding the Museum’s brand system. The Senior Designer develops scalable design standards, templates, and visual frameworks that enable consistency while allowing departments and campaigns to express unique stories within the larger Museum of the Bible brand. While this role collaborates with the web and digital product teams, its primary responsibility is strengthening the museum’s overall brand.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development and evolution of Museum of the Bible’s visual identity and brand system.
- Create and maintain comprehensive brand guidelines, design standards, templates, and reusable assets that support consistency across the organization.
- Design and help art direct campaigns, publications, environmental graphics, signage, exhibit collateral, presentations, advertising, and other branded communications.
- Ensure all creative work aligns with the Museum’s brand standards while supporting departmental and institutional goals.
- Collaborate with exhibit, marketing, development, education, and digital teams to extend the brand consistently across every guest touchpoint.
- Partner with the web and internal teams to ensure the Museum’s digital experiences faithfully represent the established brand system.
- Review creative work across departments and provide recommendations that strengthen brand consistency and design quality.
- Mentor designers and contribute to raising the overall quality of creative execution across the team.
- Stay current on branding, typography, visual identity systems, design trends, and emerging creative technologies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Digital Design, UX/UI, or related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in digital design, with strong emphasis on branding and web.
- Proficiency in Figma is a plus! including design systems, component libraries, prototyping, and collaboration workflows.
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining scalable digital design systems.
- Working knowledge of CMS platforms (Wordpress, Prismic or similar) and comfort collaborating on content updates.
- Basic understanding of the web and front-end principles (responsive design, grid systems, accessibility standards).
Skills:
- Strong digital brand sensibility and systems-oriented mindset.
- Deep understanding of layout, typography, interaction patterns, and responsive behavior.
- Ability to think strategically while executing at a high level of craft.
- Confident presenting and defending design rationale to stakeholders.
- Organized, process-driven, and detail-oriented.
- Collaborative leader who raises the standard of digital execution across the team.
Abilities & Attributes:
- Champions the Museum of the Bible’s mission to invite all people to engage with the transformative power of the Bible.
- As required, inclusion in official or incidental photographs and videos for MOTB and/or guests.
- Demonstrates leadership within a collaborative creative environment.
NOTE: Applications and resumes must include a portfolio link. Applications without a portfolio link will be disregarded. Cover letters are strongly encouraged.