Senior Designer, Platform Design

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

About the Role

Our Platform Design team creates the imagery that defines how our services look and feel — the visual merchandising graphics that represent every title, tentpole, and live event across Entertainment, Sports, Live Events, Editorial, and Partner Channels. Peacock is the center of gravity, but the work spans the NBCUniversal portfolio: NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, Telemundo, and the Olympics. We're looking for a Senior Designer with exceptional taste and deep production fluency to join us at a pivotal moment, as we scale our output across one of the busiest content slates in streaming.

This is high-volume production design held to a bespoke standard of craft. Most days you're delivering high-quality work at scale against real deadlines; when a tentpole launch calls for hero imagery, you deliver that too. The work ships to millions of screens, and your taste, judgment, and creative confidence matter as much as the pixels.

This is a deeply hands-on design role for one of the best designers in the room. You'll spend the majority of your time creating, refining, adapting, and shipping work yourself — bringing a refined point of view to every asset, and leading through the work itself.

What You'll Do

- Design and produce best-in-class visual merchandising imagery across the portfolio — from bespoke key art adaptation for tentpoles and originals to high-volume production design that supports thousands of assets across our platforms.
- Bring exceptional typography, composition, layout, and image-making to everything you touch. You retouch, adapt, and extend art with precision, and your work tells the story of a title in a single frame.
- Exercise sharp merchandising instincts: you understand what makes imagery emotionally resonant and commercially effective — what creates desire, engagement, and clarity — and you identify the strongest visual direction quickly, without needing excessive oversight or endless rounds.
- Make confident creative decisions under pressure — you're trusted with the difficult calls, your judgment shows in the first pass, not just the final one, and you can articulate the "why" behind every choice.
- Adapt and extend templates, toolkits, and design systems to deliver at scale without letting quality or consistency slip. You treat the system as a craft surface, not a constraint.
- Own your work end to end, from briefing through delivery: concept development, review cycles, approvals, stakeholder communication, and publishing readiness. You own outcomes, not files.
- Thrive in fast-moving sports and live-event environments — compressed timelines, changing requirements, athlete swaps, playoff scenarios, and last-minute updates are the job, not the exception.
- Execute with precision within established design systems and brand guidelines. When direction is ambiguous or quality is at risk, you speak up: you ask sharp questions, flag risks early, and push for clarity rather than guessing.
- Partner directly with Studios, Integrated Marketing, Sports Marketing, and Editorial — managing feedback, navigating approvals, and earning stakeholder trust through the strength and reliability of your work.
- Work confidently with rights-sensitive imagery: you understand that talent, league, and partner requirements shape what ships, and you build approval realities into how you work rather than treating them as surprises.
- Partner closely with Platform Operations, the editorial team that programs and publishes our work, so your imagery is delivered, scheduled, and shipped seamlessly.
- Be a reference point for quality: your craft, judgment, and consistency become examples others look to when calibrating excellence.
- Own your workflow and contribute to scalable production pipelines — including automation and AI-assisted production — exploring directions rapidly, iterating with intention, and spending your judgment on the craft decisions that matter.

Qualifications

What You Bring

- 5+ years of graphic design experience in entertainment, streaming, or a high-volume brand/production environment.
- Exceptional taste, strong visual instincts, and a refined point of view — the kind of eye that consistently finds the strongest direction in the room, and the confidence to stand behind it.
- Exceptional visual craft: typography, composition, color, layout, and image-making, with a portfolio that shows range across bespoke creative and production work.
- Strong retouching and art adaptation skills — you can take finished key art and extend it beautifully into new formats, crops, and contexts.
- Proven production excellence at scale — you're fast, precise, and reliable delivering large asset volumes against real deadlines, including live sports timelines.
- Composure and decisiveness under pressure: you make quick, confident creative calls when requirements shift late.
- Demonstrated experience working within established design systems and brand guidelines, with the judgment to know when to ask and when to decide.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder skills — you're as strong in a briefing as you are in the file.
- Fluency with modern design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma) and hands-on experience with AI-assisted design and production — you actively use these tools to scale output without sacrificing quality, and you're eager to push how far they can take our workload.

Desired Characteristics

- Experience with sports, live events, or entertainment key art.
- Familiarity with content management, publishing, or asset pipeline workflows.
- Experience working with licensed or rights-managed imagery and partner approval processes.
- Motion or video capabilities.

Additional Requirements

- Hybrid : This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.
- This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
- Salary range: $110,000 - $130,000  + bonus & long-term incentive eligible

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].