Junior Visual Designer Jobs in Portland, OR (NOW HIRING)

Resource Innovations is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we continue to expand our portfolio of clean energy solutions that help utilities navigate today's biggest challenges, including electrification, load flexibility, and carbon reduction.

In this role, you'll partner with Creative Directors, copywriters, marketers, and cross-functional teams to create impactful work across digital and print. You'll design integrated marketing campaigns, websites, presentations, brand systems, and sales enablement materials that strengthen our brand and support business growth.

We're looking for a collaborative, hands-on designer who enjoys solving complex creative challenges, managing multiple priorities, and delivering thoughtful, high-quality work. You'll lead projects from concept through final execution while helping elevate our visual standards and brand storytelling.

• Create thoughtful, high-quality visual design solutions across digital and print, including websites, landing pages, email campaigns, social media, presentations, and marketing campaigns.
• Partner with the ACDs, writers, account, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business objectives into compelling creative solutions.
• Lead projects from concept through final production, ensuring exceptional craft, consistency, and attention to detail at every stage.
• Develop creative concepts, visual systems, layouts, and design approaches that strengthen the Resource Innovations brand while meeting project goals.
• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of the Resource Innovations brand, design systems, templates, and creative standards.
• Present design concepts and articulate creative rationale to internal stakeholders, incorporating feedback while maintaining design integrity.
• Balance multiple projects simultaneously, managing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Produce production-ready files for both digital and print deliverables, ensuring accuracy and quality throughout the execution process.
• Identify opportunities to improve creative workflows, templates, and design processes that increase team efficiency and consistency.
• Stay current on emerging design trends, technologies, and AI-assisted creative tools, thoughtfully incorporating new approaches where they add value.
• Mentor junior designers through feedback, design critiques, and collaborative problem-solving when opportunities arise. 

Requirements

• 5 - 10+ years of professional design experience
• Excellent visual designer with strong digital and print portfolio
• Expert in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Figma
• Strong layout, typography, brand systems, and production/detail skills
• Able to translate loose briefs into smart design solutions
• Comfortable presenting work and explaining design decisions
• Collaborative, calm under pressure, organized, and deadline-driven
• Strong ability to be resourceful and solution oriented
• Willing and ready to work on PPT decks if needed
• Able to create consistent systems across campaigns, decks, social, landing pages, emails, one-pagers, and sales materials
  

Nice to have: 

• Agency or in-house creative experience is preferred.
• PowerPoint design and executive/client deck experience
  Motion/animation experience: After Effects, Premiere, Lottie, GIF/social animation
• Illustration or icon system skills

Benefits

About Resource Innovations

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we're constantly expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we're leading the charge to power change.

Resource Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. In addition to federal law requirements, Resource Innovations complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company does work.

Compensation & Benefits

Resource Innovations offers competitive salaries based on a candidate's skills, experience and qualifications for the position.  The compensation range for the base salary for this position is $75,000-$111,000. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.  The stated salary represents the expected compensation for this position. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as the candidate's experience, education and location. 

At Resource Innovations, we believe supporting our people is essential to delivering impact. We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to promote health, financial security, and work-life balance. This includes three weeks of paid vacation annually, paid holidays, a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, medical, dental and vision coverage, parental leave, an employee assistance program, commuter benefits, and additional supplemental offerings.

Employment with Resource Innovations is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check and reference check. If applicable to the position, a pre-employment drug screen may also be required.

The above job description and job requirements are not intended to be all inclusive. Resource Innovations retains the right to make changes or adjustments to job descriptions and/or job requirements at any time without notice.