Junior Graphic Design in Vernon Hills, Illinois at Europa Eyewear

Role Description

We're looking for a Junior Graphic Designer who's hungry to grow, eager to learn, and ready to do real work across our direct-to-consumer brands, eyebobs and American Optical. You'll sit on the creative team and report directly to the Art Director, who will be your day-to-day mentor and biggest advocate.

This is a craft role first. You'll be designing across digital channels (where you'll spend most of your time) while also contributing to brand work that supports our wholesale and retail channels. If you love pixel-perfect digital design but also get excited about thinking through brand systems, you'll fit right in.

Key Responsibilities

• Design digital assets for our DTC brands, including paid social ads, email campaigns, landing pages, web banners, and organic social content.
• Create A+ PDP content across Amazon and .com to bring products to life where customers shop.
• Support seasonal launches, promotions, and product drops.
• Curate and manage brand content assets, including the existing library, campaign outputs, and relevant UGC across channels.
• Support the Art Director on brand projects, from pitch decks and sales collateral to brand identity refreshes and marketing campaigns.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to deliver outstanding creative work, responding to feedback and iterating based on requests and recommendations.
• Maintain visual consistency across all touchpoints by working within established brand guidelines, keeping creative continuous across channels so it ladders up from central brand creative.
• Execute asset post-production and scaling: adapt and resize approved creative assets for all required placements across paid media, email, web, and other channels, and prepare production-ready files for digital and occasional print.
• Stay on top of design trends, especially in performance creative and digital storytelling, and bring fresh ideas to the team.
• Take on other duties as assigned as priorities shift.

Bonus Points For

• Photo editing and retouching skills. We'd love someone who can take a product shot from “fine” to “scroll-stopping”.
• Video editing experience, especially short-form content for social (Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts) and product or lifestyle cutdowns for paid media. Comfort with Premiere, CapCut, or similar tools.
• Copywriting instincts. You don't need to be a full copywriter, but if you can write a punchy headline, a clean CTA, or alt copy for an ad variant, that goes a long way on a small creative team.
• Motion design basics in After Effects or a similar program.
• Experience designing for performance marketing (A/B testing creative, working with paid media teams).
• Competency with AI design tools (Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or similar) to scale creative production, especially for high-volume paid social where speed and volume matter.
• Familiarity with brand strategy and how design ladders up to business goals.

What You'll Get

• Direct mentorship from an Art Director invested in your growth.
• Exposure to a wide range of work across D2C, wholesale and retail across two brands, which will accelerate your skills faster than a single-brand role.
• A team that values craft, gives honest feedback, and ships work we're proud of.

Required Qualifications

Position Details

EEO Statement

Europa Eyewear is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please contact HR at 800-621-4108 and we’ll work with you to meet your accessibility needs. You must have legal authorization to work for Europa Eyewear on your date of hire with no further action required by Europa Eyewear. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and give consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or genetic information.

About the Europa Eyewear Platform

The Europa eyewear platform is committed to empowering independent-thinking eyecare professionals with unique, high-quality, independent eyewear brands and partner-first support. We are equally committed to empowering our own team, ensuring they have the support, freedom, and opportunities to grow. Through collaborative partnerships, we help our customers grow and succeed, fostering a community of shared vision.

Europa Eyewear, based in Vernon Hills, IL, is one of the largest independent designers and manufacturers of eyewear frames in the United States. Europa offers a diverse portfolio of 10 independent eyewear brands, including STATE Optical Co. and American Optical (AO Eyewear), which the company acquired in 2019. Europa also built and maintains the largest eyewear manufacturing facility in the United States.

In 2023, Europa partnered with Blue Point Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based mid-market Private Equity firm, to build an industry leading eyewear platform. In April of the same year, eyebobs, the Premium Reading Glass brand, was acquired adding new ecommerce capabilities necessary to serve the omnichannel marketplace.