Senior Graphic Designer

Senior Graphic Designer,  Job Description What We Are Looking For

You are a digital-focused Graphic Designer to support the SEM/SEO Performance Marketing team, animation design, and presentation decks. You will design high-performing display ads, paid social campaigns, email/CRM assets, responsive landing page experiences, animated graphics, and presentation decks. The right candidate combines strong visual craft with performance-oriented thinking, rapid experimentation, and a data-informed approach to creative. You thrive on analyzing performance metrics, optimizing creative output, and scaling successful campaigns.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, experiment-driven environment where the impact of your work is visible and valued.

Location:

Arlington, VA. This position is in office Monday through Friday.

• Concept, design, and deliver creative for paid search, paid social, native and programmatic display ads, CRM/email campaigns, and direct-response creative.
• Develop creative variations and testing frameworks to support rapid A/B experimentation based on performance data and insights.
• Produce motion assets (short-form video / GIFs / HTML) for social and programmatic placements.
• Build and maintain creative templates and platform-specific spec guidelines for rapid iteration.
• Ensure all assets meet technical requirements, brand standards, and accessibility fundamentals (e.g., alt text, legible type sizes on small ad units).
• Partner with creative lead, marketing stakeholders, and channel specialists to deliver beautiful, functional, conversion-focused creative.
• Present concepts, executions, and rationale clearly, and execute final production, variation builds, and resizing.
• Work in partnership with multiple advertising vendors such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Taboola to assess their supported ad formats and develop innovative creative units that optimize ad delivery.
• Monitor creative performance across channels and proactively optimize assets based on data-driven insights.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person University or College.
• 5+ years of experience designing performance marketing, growth, or direct-response advertising (in-house or agency).
• Strong visual design fundamentals: typography, composition, hierarchy.
• Demonstrated ability to translate a KPI or performance insight into a new creative execution.
• Hands-on experience building assets to platform technical specs (Google Ads, Meta, DV360, programmatic, email platforms) and building responsive landing pages.
• Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and After Effects.
• Strong written and verbal communication, and able to present and rationalize creative decisions rooted in performance outcomes.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage competing priorities, ship fast, and maintain high creative standards under tight timelines.
• Expert level understanding of PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides.
• Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics.
• Must be comfortable following design direction and implementing changes, while producing high-quality designs and meeting tight deadlines.
• Advanced proficiency in creating complex animated graphics, Power Points and motion-driven visual assets.
• A track record of commitment to prior employers.

• Experience working with generative AI creative workflows to ethically scale variations.
• Familiarity with SEO-driven visual content (infographics, link-building assets etc.).
• Basic HTML/CSS understanding for performance-oriented visual executions.

Note:

This position requires that you present a portfolio of past projects as part of your application.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage:
  Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in-person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.