What are the responsibilities and job description for the Designer, Marketing & Custom Content, Eater position at Vox Media?
Eater is looking for a temporary designer to join our marketing team and help bring one of the world's most trusted food and dining brands to life across every touchpoint. This role will focus largely on Eater’s mobile app, with design work touching paid social and performance campaigns, organic content and app store assets; in addition to supporting creative pitches and content execution for Eater’s advertising clients and Eater’s tentpole programs and advertising campaigns.
Who We Are
Eater, the national food publication with outlets across the country, is at the forefront of reporting on the restaurant industry, shaping food culture with its award-winning journalism and programming, and telling people where to eat with its beloved maps and guides.
Eater is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
What You’ll Do
WHERE YOU’LL WORK
This job is hybrid, and expected to be able to come into our NYC office.
Want to know more about what working at Eater is like, or have q’s not answered here? Check out our extensive FAQ.
WHY VOX MEDIA?
What We Offer
This is a temporary, part-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.
OUR DEI COMMITMENT
Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep data regarding the demographics of our employees public and you can access it here. Learn more about our approach to corporate citizenship here.
Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team (recruitment@voxmedia.com).
What Comes Next
Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The hourly range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.
Pay Range
$40 - $40 USD
Who We Are
Eater, the national food publication with outlets across the country, is at the forefront of reporting on the restaurant industry, shaping food culture with its award-winning journalism and programming, and telling people where to eat with its beloved maps and guides.
Eater is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
What You’ll Do
- Design marketing assets across paid and organic channels including social, display, email, and app store listings, with a particular focus on Eater app growth and retention.
- Create assets for advertising campaign pitches, including treatment decks, social images, and site mockups.
- Design custom layouts and landing pages using Ceros.
- Translate performance data, audience insights, and marketing briefs into strong, platform-native creative concepts.
- Adapt work fluidly for multiple formats and aspect ratios — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, App Store, and beyond.
- Collaborate with creative, marketing, and editorial stakeholders to ensure visual output is on-brand and strategically aligned.
- Iterate quickly on creative based on testing results and campaign feedback.
- Help maintain and evolve Eater's visual identity across marketing contexts, ensuring consistency without sacrificing freshness.
- 3-5 years of graphic design experience, ideally at a media company, consumer app, or agency working with lifestyle or consumer brands.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating work across digital platforms — social, paid media, email, or app marketing — with clear evidence of creative range and visual taste.
- Exceptional typography instincts and a practiced eye for composition, hierarchy, and editorial photography.
- A baseline familiarity with performance marketing principles — you understand why creative gets tested and can design with that in mind.
- Genuine interest in food, dining, travel, or lifestyle media.
- Comfort working independently in a fast-moving environment and managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Proficiency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with design systems and brand guidelines.
- Basic motion design is a plus, but not required.
- Experience working alongside product teams.
- Familiarity with creative testing frameworks or A/B testing workflows.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK
This job is hybrid, and expected to be able to come into our NYC office.
Want to know more about what working at Eater is like, or have q’s not answered here? Check out our extensive FAQ.
WHY VOX MEDIA?
What We Offer
This is a temporary, part-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.
OUR DEI COMMITMENT
Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep data regarding the demographics of our employees public and you can access it here. Learn more about our approach to corporate citizenship here.
Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team (recruitment@voxmedia.com).
What Comes Next
Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The hourly range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.
Pay Range
$40 - $40 USD
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