Designer, Accolades

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Forbes is seeking a Designer to join the Content & Design Studio in support of our Accolades business, with a primary focus on production design and new product development. This role will partner closely with the Accolades, Studio, and Marketing teams to execute high-volume post-sale deliverables while helping bring new Accolades products to market. This designer will play a critical role in scaling the Accolades business – owning the execution of core templates, marketing assets, and emerging products – while enabling senior design leadership to focus on creative direction, strategy, and brand evolution.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working within established brand systems, while also contributing to the creation and refinement of new templates and products.

Forbes Accolades identifies, celebrates, and elevates top-performing individuals, companies, and organizations across industries through data-driven rankings, curated lists, and editorially vetted honors. Unlike generic awards, Forbes Accolades blends rigorous methodology with trusted Forbes journalism to create credibility and prestige that resonates with audiences, partners, and markets. These accolades serve as a powerful marketing asset for honorees—enhancing visibility, validating excellence, and driving engagement with key stakeholders—while reinforcing Forbes’ authority as a benchmark for success.

Responsibilities:

This role supports Accolades design across lists, award logos, display products, marketing assets, and reports, with the linked look-book providing a visual overview of the products and touchpoints this designer will support.

Production & Execution 

New Product Support

Collaboration & Brand Stewardship 

The Ideal Candidate:

The annual base salary range for this role is $60,000 - $70,000

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes. 

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