Visual Designer

Visual Designer

As a Visual Designer, you are a visual storyteller with a passion for great design and meaningful content. You bring our brand to life through graphic design, photography, and digital creative support. You create consistent, compelling visuals across platforms that reflect our values, culture, and mission. You'll design graphics, capture impactful photos, and collaborate across teams to support marketing initiatives, internal engagement, and external storytelling.

Essential Duties

Create: Design & Digital Brand Support

• Design visually compelling, on-brand materials for print, digital, presentations, signage, and social media.
• Develop creative assets using both Adobe Creative Suite and Canva, selecting the right tools based on the project.
• Create high-impact graphics for websites, social media, video projects, campaigns, and other digital platforms.
• Maintain visual consistency across all materials and build branded templates, tools, and asset libraries that empower others to stay on-brand.
• Oversee the company's business card process, ensuring consistency with brand standards and timely delivery.
• Support overall brand management by maintaining brand guidelines and helping teams implement them correctly across materials and communications.

Capture: Photography & Visual Storytelling

• Serve as Yulista's in-house photographer, capturing events, employee features, on-site moments, and community initiatives.
• Edit, organize, and manage photography assets for internal and external use.
• Plan and execute photo and video shoots that align with brand standards and campaign goals.
• Use photography to elevate storytelling around culture, leadership, recruiting, and outreach.

Collaborate: Cross-Team Support & Brand Engagement

• Partner with HR, IT, Facilities, and subsidiary teams to meet visual communication needs.
• Support internal initiatives with compelling visuals that engage, inform, and inspire employees.
• Create visuals for community outreach and YulistaCARES activities that showcase our impact.
• Support planning, promotion, and coverage of company events through creative assets, photography, and cross-functional coordination.
• Work closely with the marketing team to align creative work with strategic goals and timelines.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

People & Collaboration Skills

• Builds rapport with individuals across the organization through empathy, active listening, and self-awareness to authentically capture and reflect the Yulista culture.
• Handles sensitive content and leadership visibility with integrity, maintaining a high standard of confidentiality and care in internal storytelling.
• Brings a thoughtful, solutions-oriented mindset to visual storytelling, eager to explore new ideas, interpret feedback, and elevate brand narratives with purpose.
• A flexible mindset, collaborative communication skills, and proactive ability to propose pivots as needed.
• Process minded approach to managing multiple projects and deadlines.

Creative & Technical Skills

• Strong portfolio showcasing graphic design and photography skills.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and photography editing tools.
• Experience creating graphics for web and digital campaigns; familiarity with website content workflows is a plus.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for events, photoshoots, and on-site support.

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Graphic Design, Public Relations, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in graphic design, marketing, and photography.

Security & Travel Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance
• Must possess a valid driver's license and ability to travel (~10% of role)

Preference Statement

Preference will be given to Calista shareholders and their descendants and to spouses of Calista shareholders, and to shareholders of other corporations created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, in accordance with Title 43 U.S. Code 1626(g).

EEO Statement

It is our policy to select, place, train and promote the most qualified individuals based upon relevant factors such as work quality, attitude and experience, so as to provide equal employment opportunity for all employees in compliance with applicable local, state and federal laws and without regard to non-work related factors such as race, color, religion/creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, genetic information, or other protected status. When applicable, our policy of non-discrimination applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, transfer, promotion, placement, layoff, compensation, termination, reduction in force and benefits.

Reasonable Accommodation

It is Calista and Subsidiaries' business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.