Assistant Director of Creative

Position Title:

Assistant Director of Creative

Appointment Type:

Contract

Job Description:

Step into a fast‑paced, high‑impact creative role where your work inspires recruits, elevates game‑day moments, and strengthens the Cyclone Football brand. Iowa State University Football is seeking an innovative graphic design and social media specialist to support recruiting operations and drive the program’s visual identity.

Examples of what you'll do

• Collaborate with Director of Creative to conceptualize and produce visually impactful designs and content that are informative, entertaining, and memorable to recruits and constituents.

• Manage all recruiting graphics.

• Lead a team of graphic design student assistants and help maintain the standards for all graphical and social media content.

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Position Title:

Assistant Director of Creative

Appointment Type:

Contract

Job Description:

Step into a fast‑paced, high‑impact creative role where your work inspires recruits, elevates game‑day moments, and strengthens the Cyclone Football brand. Iowa State University Football is seeking an innovative graphic design and social media specialist to support recruiting operations and drive the program’s visual identity.

Examples of what you'll do

• Collaborate with Director of Creative to conceptualize and produce visually impactful designs and content that are informative, entertaining, and memorable to recruits and constituents.

• Manage all recruiting graphics.

• Lead a team of graphic design student assistants and help maintain the standards for all graphical and social media content.

• Create and oversee compelling social media strategy across multiple platforms, including live, in-game content.

• Assist with recruiting photoshoots.

• Skillfully use graphics animation software and produce GIFs.

• Responsible for adhering to all rules and regulations of the University, Big 12 Conference, and NCAA.

• Establish and maintain effective interactions with the students, colleagues, university community, alumni, media and the public.

The ideal candidates will have strong graphic design and creativity skills; solid understanding of recruiting needs and trends for collegiate football; proven project management and organizational skills; experience with photo editing, design elements used on various social media platforms and animation; ability to effectively plan, multi-task, meet deadlines; strong communication skills.   Candidates are expected to be committed to multiculturalism and working with a diverse student body. This position requires the ability to work non-traditional hours including evenings, weekends, and may travel overnight with the team.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an on-going basis without sponsorship. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Required Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree.
Experience creating graphic design content for high level sports.

Proficiency with digital multimedia editing systems.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

Solid experience in graphic design production and social media branding for a NCAA DI or professional football program.

Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud.
Photography experience for creative media projects.

About the Athletics Department

As an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision athletics program and a founding member of the Big 12 Conference, Iowa State University sponsors 18 intercollegiate athletics teams and supports 450 student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence. ISU Athletics employs over 250 talented and dedicated full-time staff members, more than 500 temporary and student employees, and multiple auxiliary partners who collaboratively work within a culture to support and enhance the experiences of Cyclone student-athletes and their loyal fan base. Iowa State student-athletes have produced 10-consecutive years of record-setting Graduation Success Rate scores in the classroom, while athletically, the Cyclones have captured 19 national team championships, 140 national individual titles and 162 conference team championships in its rich history. www.cyclones.com 

Proposed Start Date:

March 2, 2026

Number of Months Employed Per Year:

12 Month Work Period

Time Type:

Full time

Pay Grade:

Contract

Application Instructions:

To apply for this position, please click on “Apply” and complete the Employment Application. Please be prepared to enter or attach the following:

1) Resume

2)   *Interested candidates should provide design samples with their application. This is best accomplished by providing web links to your work.

3) Contact information for 3 work references

If you have questions regarding this application process, please email employment@iastate.edu or call 515-294-4800 or Toll Free: 1-877-477-7485.

Why Choose ISU?

Iowa State Employees enjoy comprehensive health and work-life benefits, including medical and dental; as well as:
• Retirement benefits including defined benefit and defined contribution plans
• Generous vacation, holiday and sick time and leave plans
• Onsite childcare (Ames, Iowa)
• Life insurance and long-term disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Various voluntary benefits and discounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellbeing program.

Original Posting Date:

February 3, 2026

Posting Close Date:

February 9, 2026

Job Requisition Number:

R18562

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