Marketing Designer at Planar Systems in Hillsboro, OR

The Marketing Designer is responsible for creating compelling visual communications that elevate the Planar brand and support marketing, product, sales enablement and demand generation initiatives. Working across digital and traditional media, this role develops creative assets that translate complex display technologies into engaging visual experiences for customers, partners and industry audiences.

The Marketing Designer creates a wide range of marketing materials—including digital content, product collateral, social media graphics, advertising, presentations, event graphics and sales support materials—while ensuring consistency with Planar's brand standards. The ideal candidate combines strong conceptual thinking with exceptional design execution, thrives in a collaborative marketing environment and is experienced in translating complex technology solutions into clear, visually engaging communications.

This is a contract to hire opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creative Execution: Create high-quality visual marketing materials that strengthen the Planar brand and support marketing initiatives across all channels.

• Brand Stewardship: Maintain and evolve the consistent application of Planar's visual identity across all marketing content.

• Project Leadership: Manage multiple creative projects from concept through final production while balancing priorities, schedules and quality standards.

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate with the Marketing team to develop creative solutions that effectively communicate Planar's products, technologies and brand.

• Creative Operations: Maintain creative assets, oversee production processes and stay current with evolving design trends, tools and technologies.

Skills:

• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud including Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign

• Expert proficiency in Microsoft Office

• Experience designing for both digital and print media

• Strong typography, layout and visual hierarchy skills

• Understanding of responsive digital design best practices

• Experience preparing files for commercial print production

• Experience with video editing or motion graphics (Adobe Premiere Pro and/or After Effects) preferred

• Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and workflows

• 5+ years of professional graphic or marketing design experience supporting B2B technology companies

• Experience developing creative for integrated marketing campaigns

• Strong portfolio demonstrating digital, print and campaign work

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications or related discipline (or equivalent experience)

Success Factors:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven marketing environment, successfully managing multiple concurrent projects and evolving priorities, while delivering high quality work
• Takes ownership of work as a self-starter, proactively identifying solutions and moving projects forward with minimal direction.
• Resourceful and adaptable, with the ability to figure things out independently, solve problems creatively and respond quickly to changing business needs.
• Exceptional organization skills and disciplined project management skills that enable consistent execution across multiple simultaneous initiatives.
• Collaborative, positive and flexible, contributing effectively within a highly engaged Marketing team.
• Continuous learning mindset, embracing new design trends, technologies and AI-powered creative tools to improve both creative output and workflow efficiency.

Benefits at Full Time Transition:

• 75% employer-paid medical for employee. Family coverage also included.
• 100% employer paid dental, and vision for employee and dependents
• 100% employer paid long-term, short-term disability, and life insurance policy
• 401k Match, if you’re contributing 5% we match 4%. 100% vested immediately.
• 10 paid holidays
• Starting at 15 days paid PTO (inclusive of sick and vacation time) annually
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

EEOC Statement:

Planar is an equal opportunity employer, we believe in fostering a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusivity. Our commitment to this goal is clearly expressed in our zero-tolerance policy for discrimination and harassment of any kind, including on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our hiring practices ensure that decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and current business needs, while extending to all aspects of our operations - from recruitment and promotion to layoff and recall, to leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. We are committed to remaining a drug free workplace