Amanda Young
Summary
Senior Graphic and Brand Designer with over 15+ years of experience in graphic design, marketing, and branding identity. Specialized in large-scale marketing campaigns and Brand/Rebranding efforts. Flexibility to thrive within global, matrixed organizations as well as agencies, and localized non-profits, delivering innovative solutions that resonate with target audiences.
Strong passion for color theory, typography, and brand development, driving unique approach to current trends and ensuring impactful visual storytelling.
Experience spans multiple industries, including tech, retail, apparel, travel, gaming and fin-tech.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Graphic Designer, Marketing
Legacy Health
Portland, Oregon
06.2023 - 09.2025
- In-house Senior Designer, creating various marketing collateral such as posters, flyers, brochures, direct mail (print), branding and logo design, campaign deliverables, web and mobile UI design using Figma, indoor and outdoor signage, city billboards, vehicle transport wraps, wayfinding, digital signage, motion graphics, experiential design, apparel, magazine/newspaper ads, online ads, social media design, web content management systems
- In collaboration with copywriters, marcom strategists and project managers, created and designed customized, over-arching B2C campaigns within Oregon & Washington.
- Trusted partner and mentor, fostering growth and collaboration by empowering peers and cross-functional teams to adopt best practices in scalable design solutions.
- Senior brand designer and design strategist for state-wide Hospitals 150th Anniversary (both Washington and Oregon).
- Use of AI-powered design prompts to help with expedited timelines for marketing strategy and corporate branding within projects and campaigns.
- Designed and implemented various brand workflows for marketing campaigns and cross-functional design initiatives.
- Rollout of the 2025 brand refresh for Legacy Health, contributing to Creative Direction behind the new brand with full template build outs and Brand Guidelines, plus training on brand usage and BKM’s (Best Known Methods).
- Creative Direction and Graphic Design contribution on Oregon and Washington state milestones, such as the Good Samaritan Hospital 150th Anniversary, Oregon 2023-2025 Pride Month and city-wide celebration, 2024 & 2025 PDX Live Concerts and so much more!
Senior Graphic Designer, Corporate Marketing
Intel
Portland, Oregon
05.2022 - 05.2023
- In-house Level 7 Senior Graphic and Brand designer within the corporate marketing & communications group, creating customized logos, iconography, experiential assets for events, soft signage, infographics and digital online marketing, mood boards, kiosks, wayfinding, campaign marketing, billboards, advertising, data visualization, presentations, design systems management and video content.
- Executed Brand/ID and alignment, as well as brand refreshes throughout various business units, including the 2023 brand guidelines for Intel Corporate Division.
- Delivered over 100+ custom pieces of design collateral, including logos, iconography, print, digital assets, websites and social media.
- Created motion design in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere for training courses and short animated online banner advertisements.
- Increased sales by 20-30% with newly branded products & services in Global Corporate Services and Environmental Health and Safety.
- Hit divisional goal of delivering on all 2022/23 projects either on time or before due date by 95%.
- Created a diverse and highly detailed series of educational infographics, resulting in 2 awards presented by Intel via the EPA.
- Design efforts saved 2,626 million gallons of water in the United States in 2022.
Senior Visual Graphic Designer
Microsoft
Seattle, Washington
03.2021 - 01.2022
- Contractor for design & communications in Cloud, Emerging Technologies, Retail, Customer Confidence, Incubation Lab, Business & Sales.
- Projects included logo development, internal and external business/customer communications, promotional swag, design of weekly and monthly digital e-mails, UI assets for SharePoint and work with Figma, following Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).
- Custom digital design presentations for SpaceX and Blue Origin helped to target exact satellite trajectories for important communication while astronauts were orbiting during space flight.
- New branding created for Business and Operations, which helped improve effectiveness in marketing presence within the global tech community and yielded 31% growth in sales for B2B and B2C divisions.
- Use of AI design tools and prompting to help expedite design, marketing and creative strategy within projects and campaigns.
Senior Graphic Designer
Intel
Portland, Oregon
04.2013 - 03.2020
- In-house Level 7 Senior Graphic and Brand designer, greatest achievements included full-scale design of brand roll-outs for new hardware and software products, generating high revenue in those areas.
- Top-to-bottom event and experiential design for national and international conferences receiving company-wide recognition in Europe, China, Australia and India.
- Worked with Intel Inside (internal brand agency) on new company-wide 2020 rebranding effort.
- Supported internal and external vendors and agencies with design projects and campaigns to cross-cultural audiences 360-degree marketing collateral, typographic influence, and global social media campaign designs.
- Lead all projects from pre-to-post production, staying up to date on the latest visual trends while motivating teams on best-use disciplines.
- Created design and branding projects across multiple disciplines for many business units, multiple stakeholders, our external partners & international ad agencies.
Education
Certification - Creative Art Direction
Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, California2023
AA - Multi Media Graphic Design
Art Institute
Seattle, Washington2002
BA - Communications
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington1996
Skills
- Graphic Design
- Brand/ID
- Art Direction
- Typography
- Soft signage
- Iconography
- Pictography
- Experiential
- Illustration
- Storytelling
- Infographics
- UI Web & Mobile
- Presentations
- 2D/3D
- Photo editing
- Social Media
Accomplishments
- Increased Value in Revenue: sales up by 30% through new product design and branding at Intel
- Brand Engagement Boost: Spearheaded design and rebrand efforts for Legacy Health, driving 20% higher engagement with it's patients.
- Timely Project Delivery: Executed 600+ design projects at Intel, achieving 95% on-time delivery rate.
- Award-Winning Infographics: Developed award-winning educational infographics, winning 2 EPA prizes for Intel in 2023.
- Top-to-bottom Design: Greatest achievements included full-scale design initiatives for new products, generating high revenue in those areas.
- End-to-end Design: Experience in both Print and Digital Design, Visual Design, Brand Design, advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and other industry-standard software.
Certification
Art and Creative Direction Certification, Art Center College of Design - Pasadena, California
Timeline
Senior Graphic Designer, Marketing
Legacy Health
06.2023 - 09.2025
Senior Graphic Designer, Corporate Marketing
Intel
05.2022 - 05.2023
Senior Visual Graphic Designer
Microsoft
03.2021 - 01.2022
Senior Graphic Designer
Intel
04.2013 - 03.2020
Certification - Creative Art Direction
Art Center College of Design
AA - Multi Media Graphic Design
Art Institute
BA - Communications
University of Washington