Job Title: Junior Designer
Location: New York City
Engagement: Contract, 40 hours per week
Who We Are
MIJO creates bold launch campaigns for leading tech and lifestyle brands, like Stripe, Jones Road Beauty and Noble Mobile. We do it with unrivaled visual precision, at a very fast pace, with a work style that is fun, collaborative and energetic.
That’s what we’re known for.
We are a tight team of creative misfits on the Lower East Side, building an agency at the intersection of art, culture, and technology.
In an industry flooded with AI slop, meaning derivative, mass produced content that looks polished but feels empty, MIJO is taking a different path.
MIJO operates like a cultural workshop. We start with pencils, paper, conversation, taste, tension, and real human insight. We are not anti tech. We use new tools aggressively. But we are militant about keeping the human hand in the work through writing, drawing, art direction, casting, editing, music, texture, physical production, and the hundreds of tiny decisions that make a brand feel alive.
We are in it, as they say, for the love of the game. We are obsessed with solving problems. And with the act of making. With every detail.
We value clarity over jargon, partnership over hierarchy, and ideas that help our clients move boldly into what’s next without losing what makes them human.
The Role
We’re looking for a Junior Designer focused on tech B2B presentation design, content design, and visual systems.
This is a role for someone early in their career, but already operating at a professional level. You likely have 1 to 3 years of design experience in an agency , studio, brand, freelance, or similarly demanding creative environment. This should not be your first professional design role. We need someone who has already built real working habits, knows how to take feedback, and understands what it means to deliver polished work on a deadline.
You are technically sound, visually precise, and proud of the details. You know how to work inside tight brand systems. You understand grids, hierarchy, spacing, typography, alignment, and consistency. You can take a complex story and make it feel clear, sharp, premium, and easy to follow.
A lot of this work will live in decks, content systems, sales materials, event materials, social assets, and internal or external brand communications. The work needs to move fast, but it cannot feel rushed. It needs to be accurate, polished, and deeply considered.
This is not a role for someone who wants loose prompts and wide open design exploration all day. This is for someone who can take a strong visual system and execute it with discipline, speed, taste, and precision.
You’ll work closely with senior designers, creative directors, strategists, producers, and account leads. You should be comfortable taking direction, working async, managing multiple projects at once, and coming back with smart, organized work that makes everyone’s job easier.
We are looking for someone who wants to do high stakes work for the world’s most demanding brands. Someone who understands that visual precision is not optional. It is everything.
What You’ll Actually Do
Design high stakes presentations and content systems
Create sharp, polished, on brand decks and content assets for tech B2B clients, launch campaigns, product stories, sales narratives, events, and executive level communications.
Work inside tight visual systems
Follow brand guidelines with real discipline. Use grids, spacing, type styles, components, layouts, and templates with precision.
Make complex ideas feel simple
Turn dense information into clear visual stories. Help make complicated products, messages, and strategic ideas easier to understand.
Move quickly without getting sloppy
Handle multiple projects at once while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and visual quality.
Support senior designers
Take direction from senior designers and creative leadership, apply feedback cleanly, and help move the work forward without needing constant supervision.
Work async with discipline
Communicate clearly, organize files properly, document your progress, ask smart questions, and keep projects moving even when the team is not in the same room.
Sweat the details
Check alignment, spelling, spacing, punctuation, image quality, exports, naming, page flow, and brand consistency before anything gets shared.
Build clean, usable files
Create design files and decks that other people can open, understand, edit, and build from.
Bring taste to the system
Even inside strict guidelines, find ways to make the work feel elevated, considered, and alive.
Stay curious
Pay attention to design, technology, productstorytelling, motion, interfaces, editorial systems, and how the best brands communicate visually.
Who You Are
Technically sound
You have formal training, strong fundamentals, or enough real experience to prove you understand design at a professional level.
Early career, not entry level
You likely have 1 to 3 years of professional experience and have already worked through real briefs, real deadlines, real feedback, and real delivery.
Visually precise
You care about alignment, rhythm, hierarchy, grids, typography, spacing, and consistency. You notice when something is one pixel off.
Detail obsessed
You check your own work before anyone else has to. You catch typos, broken spacing, inconsistent type, messy files, bad crops, and anything that makes the work feel less premium.
Fast and accurate
You can move across several projects in a week without losing track of the details.
Brand disciplined
You understand that great design is not always about reinventing the system. Sometimes it is about executing the system perfectly.
Low ego and hungry
You want feedback. You apply it quickly. You care more about making the work better than proving you were right the first time.
Comfortable with async work
You can work independently, stay organized, and keep communication clear without needing someone to check in every hour.
Excited by demanding brands
You want to work on projects where the bar is high, the details matter, and the audience is smart.
Tools You Should Know
You should be highly comfortable working in:
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Keynote
• Google Slides
• Slack
• Presentation and content design workflows
• Shared file systems and organized project folders
What We’re Looking For in Your Book
A portfolio that shows:
• Strong presentation design
• Clean typography and layout
• Tight adherence to brand systems
• Clear information hierarchy
• Strong visual judgment
• Detail oriented execution
• Taste, restraint, and consistency
• Work that feels polished without feeling generic
• Evidence that you can make complex ideas feel simple
Location
This is a New York City based role. We work in a hybrid rhythm, with regular in person collaboration expected in our LES office and in person for shoots, working sessions, and client meetings. The exact cadence may evolve based on project needs, but this is NOT a fully remote role.
Compensation
This is a contract role at 40 hours per week.
Compensation will be aligned to experience, scope, and agreed contract terms.
How to Apply
Send us your portfolio, resume, and let us know what interests you about this posting.
We are looking for someone with strong taste, real discipline, low ego, and the ability to make work feel clear, precise, and professional under pressure. You've probably already spotted the 3 visual errors in this post.
