Job description

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes. About the Role We’re looking for a Graphic Designer with strong visual instincts, thoughtful craft, and the ability to turn a brief into clear, compelling creative. You’ll join Vivint’s Brand & Digital Design team and work with designers, copywriters, and marketing partners to bring advertising, brand campaigns, digital experiences, and customer communications to life. You’ll contribute ideas, build thoughtful layouts, and carry projects through revisions and final production. The ideal designer is comfortable working within an established brand while finding opportunities to make the work feel fresh, useful, and cohesive. What You'll Do • Design advertising and marketing creative across digital and customer marketing, including paid media, social, email, customer communications, and digital and print campaigns. • Develop creative for broader brand and advertising initiatives, including campaign concepts, web graphics, presentations, and marketing collateral. • Translate creative briefs and messaging into clear visual concepts, layouts, and finished designs. • Adapt creative across channels, sizes, and formats while maintaining consistent typography, color, imagery, and hierarchy. • Collaborate with copywriters, marketing partners, and other designers to align creative with audience needs and project goals. • Apply Vivint’s brand guidelines and contribute to reusable templates and design patterns that make recurring work more efficient. • Present work clearly, incorporate feedback thoughtfully, and communicate progress and dependencies. • Prepare organized files and production-ready assets; check details, consistency, and accuracy before handoff. • Manage multiple projects and deadlines with support from the design team. Minimum Qualifications • A portfolio that demonstrates strong typography, layout, composition, and brand application across digital and print work. • At least 2 years of relevant professional graphic design experience, including in-house, agency, or freelance work, with the ability to take assigned projects from brief through final delivery. • Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. • Proficiency with generative AI tools to explore concepts, create and refine imagery and other creative assets, and integrate outputs into polished, on-brand advertising. • An understanding of designing for different formats and channels, including responsive digital layouts and print production. • Strong attention to detail and the ability to balance visual quality with clear communication. • A collaborative approach, openness to feedback, and the ability to explain your design decisions. • Good organization, time management, and communication skills. • A college degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field, or equivalent professional design experience demonstrated through a strong portfolio. • No professional certifications required. Preferred Qualifications • Experience designing integrated advertising campaigns across paid media, social, email, web, or print. • Experience working with brand systems, component libraries, or reusable creative templates. • Basic motion design or animation skills. • Experience partnering with digital marketing, Customer Marketing, or an in-house creative team. Portfolio Please include a portfolio with your application. We’d like to see examples of your design craft, how you apply a brand across different formats, and the role you played in the work. NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills. EEO is the Law Poster (The poster can be found at eeoc.gov) Official description on file with Talent. We support the use of AI tools to help you prepare for your interview (e.g., practicing responses, researching the role, or refining your resume). However, during interviews and assessments, we expect responses to reflect your own thinking, experience, and communication. Use of AI to generate or read answers in real time, complete assessments, or misrepresent your qualifications is not permitted and may impact your candidacy.

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Must-haves

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.
Design advertising and marketing creative across digital and customer marketing, including paid media, social, email, customer communications, and digital and print campaigns.
Develop creative for broader brand and advertising initiatives, including campaign concepts, web graphics, presentations, and marketing collateral.
Translate creative briefs and messaging into clear visual concepts, layouts, and finished designs.
Adapt creative across channels, sizes, and formats while maintaining consistent typography, color, imagery, and hierarchy.
Collaborate with copywriters, marketing partners, and other designers to align creative with audience needs and project goals.
Apply Vivint’s brand guidelines and contribute to reusable templates and design patterns that make recurring work more efficient.
Present work clearly, incorporate feedback thoughtfully, and communicate progress and dependencies.
Prepare organized files and production-ready assets; check details, consistency, and accuracy before handoff.
Manage multiple projects and deadlines with support from the design team.
A portfolio that demonstrates strong typography, layout, composition, and brand application across digital and print work.
At least 2 years of relevant professional graphic design experience, including in-house, agency, or freelance work, with the ability to take assigned projects from brief through final delivery.
Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
Proficiency with generative AI tools to explore concepts, create and refine imagery and other creative assets, and integrate outputs into polished, on-brand advertising.
An understanding of designing for different formats and channels, including responsive digital layouts and print production.
Strong attention to detail and the ability to balance visual quality with clear communication.
A collaborative approach, openness to feedback, and the ability to explain your design decisions.
Good organization, time management, and communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

Experience designing integrated advertising campaigns across paid media, social, email, web, or print.
Experience working with brand systems, component libraries, or reusable creative templates.
Basic motion design or animation skills.
Experience partnering with digital marketing, Customer Marketing, or an in-house creative team.
Please include a portfolio with your application. We’d like to see examples of your design craft, how you apply a brand across different formats, and the role you played in the work.
Official description on file with Talent.

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