About the Foundation & the Role
The Isaacson Foundation, doing business as Empower Ministry, is a faith-based, non-profit organization on a mission to develop quality people to equip Christian leaders to live out their God-given potential to advance the Kingdom. A top priority is creating a resource center to curate best-in-class tools and resources for ministry leaders, free-of-charge forever. Our ultimate goal is to save more souls by empowering successful Church leaders to amplify their impact, enhance operational effectiveness, and strengthen their ministries for lasting success. Learn more about initiatives on www.empowerministry.com, and be sure to check out our blogs. As a start-up organization, Empower Ministry wants teammates to work on site at our office in Gallatin, Tennessee, to support culture, camaraderie, and efficiency. We are non-denominational; the Apostles' Creed is our foundational belief.
Empower Ministry is building out our Marketing and AI Product function from the ground up, spanning brand identity, digital presence, the Resource Center platform, and a growing library of church-facing resources. This is a foundational hire on that team: a hands-on designer who can move fluidly between brand and creative work and product-level UX/UI, giving the CMPO an execution partner across brand, marketing, communications, digital assets, and AI products — and the stewardship of the shared design system and asset library the rest of the team builds on.
You'll report to the Chief Marketing & AI Product Officer (CMPO), and you’ll work in close partnership with the AI Specialist on anything touching the Resource Center and AI-enabled tools. You will also create content and creative assets for both internal and external creative asset design needs. This is a build-from-scratch environment. Expect ambiguity, fast iteration, and real ownership of what you ship, with final sign-off from the CMPO. You'll need to show initiative, creative design excellence, and conduct research.
This role sits at the intersection of brand identity and the end-to-end product experience. You will build design systems as a foundation for marketing, communications, and product design.
You must have a professional portfolio to apply for this position. Upload your portfolio with your application.
Key Responsibilities
Branding & Creative Design (40% of the Role)
-Brand System & Visual Identity
- Design the Brand System: Partner with the CMPO to build and maintain the Empower Ministry (by the Isaacson Foundation) brand identity, including guidelines, logo, fonts, colors, and storytelling elements. Bring it to life through a consistent visual system, templates, and applied assets, with consistent typography, color, illustration, and iconography across all touchpoints.
- Lead the Brand Refresh of the Isaacson Foundation and Empower Ministry under the guidance of the CMPO.
- Produce Marketing Assets: Design high-converting marketing collateral, including ad creatives, social media kits, email templates, sales decks, and physical event assets.
- Design Web Experiences: Partner with the Marketing & Communications Manager to optimize a high-performing website, web apps, and conversion-focused landing pages.
- Support the Church Brand Development Toolkit with visual frameworks and templates churches can adopt directly.
- Manage the Asset Library: Own and maintain the brand and creative asset library (digital asset management), including version control of logos and master files, the photography and asset library, and template governance, so staff and partners always work from current, correct, on-brand assets.
- Build Self-Serve Templates: Create and maintain on-brand templates for documents, decks, social, and email that enable staff to produce consistent materials and reduce editorial-review load.
-Content & Storytelling
- Partner with the CMPO to shape brand and marketing creative strategy, campaign concepts, and content creation across channels, bringing an independent point of view and recommendations, not just execution.
- Design creative for the Benefits of Faith campaign and other public-facing initiatives, translating campaign strategy into concrete content calendars and asset production, as Empower Ministry's in-house designer working alongside creative agencies.
- Conceive and produce compelling, on-brand content and assets across the website, social channels, email, video, the editorial calendar, and church-facing communications that bring Empower Ministry's brand personality to life.
- Develop scroll-stopping, shareable creative assets tailored to each channel's format and audience, with an eye toward content that has genuine viral potential.
- Own end-to-end execution of storytelling assets (concepting, design, light video editing/motion graphics, and copy polish), looping in agency partners where needed.
- Continuously test and iterate content formats based on engagement data and audience feedback.
- Manage licensing and rights-clearing for creative assets used in production, including fonts, stock imagery, music, and templates, ensuring proper licenses and attribution.
AI Product UX & UI Design (40% of the Role)
-Design Systems & UX
- Build Design Systems: Create and maintain a scalable Figma component library. Ensure seamless transitions from marketing assets to inside-the-app interfaces.
- Architect User Journeys: Map out end-to-end user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for web or mobile software applications.
- Optimize for Usability: Develop user research mechanisms. Conduct light user research, analyze behavior data (e.g., Hotjar, Mixpanel), and iterate on features to eliminate friction in the user funnel.
- Design for Accessibility: Design to recognized digital accessibility standards (e.g., Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) across web, the Resource Center, and product interfaces, and build accessibility checks into the usability and iteration process.
-AI Product Design
- Partner with the CMPO and AI Specialist to design the Resource Center's wireframes and role-based UI/UX, then continuously drive improvement based on user feedback.
- Translate product vision and audience strategy into concrete interface designs, working alongside the AI Specialist on handoff and feasibility.
- Design the user experience for AI-enabled features (search, content generation, personalized recommendations) as they mature toward production.
- Design the format and visual presentation of the top church-facing AI use-case guides.
- Help establish reusable design patterns for future AI resource development.
Cross-Functional Collaboration (20% of the Role)
- Marketer Partnership: Work alongside the Marketing & Communications Manager to match data-driven strategies with premium aesthetic execution.
- Developer Hand-Off: Provide engineering teams with precise design specs, clean Figma files, asset exports, and interactive behavior rules.
- Work within the CMPO's editorial review and brand approval workflows to keep every external-facing asset consistent.
- Contribute design perspective to Empower Ministry Leadership (EML) Network materials, board committee presentations, and Priority Impact Partner touchpoints as needed.
- Product Coordination: Provide light product coordination in support of the CMPO’s product roadmap — maintaining a working backlog of design and product items, tracking sequencing and milestones, and coordinating design-to-development delivery with the AI Specialist and the CTO’s engineering team.
What Success Looks Like by End of 2026
- Brand identity guidelines are designed, packaged, and actively used across channels.
- Website, social, and email content are consistently on-brand and driving engagement, with a repeatable content production rhythm in place.
- Deliver the Resource Center v1.0 wireframe and role-based UI/UX
- Church Brand Development Toolkit has a clear, reusable visual framework.
- Key Empower Ministry AI use-case guides are designed and published.
- A working design partnership with the AI Specialist and CTO's team is established, with a clear handoff rhythm between design thinking sprints and development cycles.
Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years of professional design experience
- Demonstrated portfolio spanning both brand/visual design and product UX/UI (not just one or the other)
- Experience designing digital platforms, web, content management, AI products, or SaaS-style interfaces.
- Content creation experience across social, email, and video with examples of storytelling-driven creative work
- Wireframing/prototyping tool proficiency (e.g., Figma) and working knowledge of handoff practices with tech teams.
- Comfort working directly from a product vision or brand strategy with minimal existing design system to build from
- Strong collaboration skills — this role sits at the intersection of marketing, product, and engineering.
Preferred
- Experience in designing for non-profit, faith-based, or mission-driven organizations.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled product features (search, recommendations, generative content, agentic AI) from a UX standpoint
- Experience building or evolving a brand identity system from scratch.
- Video editing / motion graphics and copywriting or scriptwriting experience
Reporting & Collaboration Structure
This role reports to the CMPO and is a core member of the Marketing & AI Product team. Day-to-day, expect close, frequent collaboration with:
- The CMPO: brand direction, creative review, prioritization
- Marketing & Communications Manager: peer on campaigns, brand assets, and templates
- The AI Specialist: peer on Resource Center UX and AI use-case resource design
- The CTO's team: engineering handoff and technical feasibility for the Resource Center and other platforms
Note on Scope: Empower Ministry is in an early, formative season, and this role sits within a function that is still being built. This description reflects the role as understood today; it is not exhaustive, and responsibilities, priorities, reporting relationships, and scope are expected to evolve as the Foundation grows. The team member may be asked to take on additional or adjusted duties consistent with the role and the mission.
Pay: $70,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Application Question(s):
- How do the mission, vision, purpose, and/or initiatives of Empower Ministry resonate with you?
- You must have a professional portfolio to apply for this position. Are you prepared to upload this with your application?
Education:
Experience:
- professional design: 5 years (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Gallatin, TN 37066 (Required)
Work Location: In person
