The role
We need a versatile Graphic Designer fluent in Framer, comfortable with ambiguity, and hungry to do standout work. For someone with 1 years and a remote-native edge, this Graphic Designer job offers $42,000 - $59,000 and real upward mobility.
Key Responsibilities
- Balance creative ambition with budget, timeline, and technical constraints
- Champion an outcome-focused approach to user-centered design in every project
- Wring narrative clarity from a feature list three product managers fought over
- Carve a distinct lane for McDonalds in a creative space crowded with sameness
- Coax usable feedback out of a divided review with a sharper set of questions
What You'll Bring
- Real Heuristic Evaluation chops, plus the Framer curiosity to keep growing
- The integrity to flag your own mistakes first
- Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
- Roughly 1+ years operating in a similar Graphic Designer position
- A communication style that translates jargon back into plain English
- Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
Quietly, from Portland, McDonalds has become the forever-learning creative partner that ME's most demanding teams refuse to replace. Ownership at McDonalds means you fix the broken thing even when nobody assigned it to you.
We start the conversation at $42,000 - $59,000 and end it with mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to grow without relocating from ME.
The posting clock reset today, so the Graphic Designer window is wide open.
We're not after perfect, we're after ready, so if that's you, apply for Graphic Designer now.
Skills required
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Framer
- User Research
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Design Thinking
- Relationship Building
- Persuasion
Why join McDonalds
- Certification Reimbursement
- Onboarding buddy program
- Catered Lunches
- COBRA continuation support
- Charitable Giving
- Payroll advance options
- Generous paid time off
- Summer Fridays
- Performance bonuses
- Financial wellness program
- Community Service
- Hackathons and innovation time
- Paid sick leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Next step
This Contract role in Portland, ME closes 2026-11-17.