About

Nick Munguia (she/they) is a creative professional with 10+ years of experience in design, digital media, and visual communications.

Experienced in a plethora of communications roles — including graphic designer, motion designer, web developer, researcher, project manager, and more — Munguia has long been committed to utilizing their expertise for public service in various roles oriented towards public good. Munguia’s free time is dedicated to art history research and analysis from a multidisciplinary perspective, as seen on their Substack and Youtube channel.

Previous experience includes work for NAHREP, Certified Group, San Diego Privacy, the San Diego TRUST Coalition, FFF Enterprises, The National Housing Coalition and others.

Work History


Volunteer Project Manager, Designer, and Communications Specialist

San Diego Privacy | Remote | February 2026 – Present
  • Regular communication with fellow volunteers and other advocates in the tech policy space

Project Management

  • Coordinate in-person meeting schedule for core members
  • Manage and maintain all meeting notes, minutes, and follow-up communication
  • Contribute to organizing shared files for efficiency and ease of communication

Design and Communications

  • Building and maintaining member communication structures
  • Developing communication campaigns for brand recognition, establishing brand trust
  • Ongoing social media management

Graphic Design

  • Manage and maintain brand guidelines across digital and traditional marketing collateral
  • Manage and review social media content done by other volunteers for visual consistency
  • Assist in creating social media content
  • Suggest edits for San Diego Privacy website

Policy Research

  • Research tech policy cases related to digital privacy and surveillance technology
  • Synthesize research into easily digestible presentations for advisory officials
  • Present research when requested

Freelance Graphic Designer + Web Designer / Content Creator / Business Owner

By Nick Munguia (self-employed) | Remote | October 2023 – Present
  • Regular communication and reporting to freelance clients

Graphic Design

  • Manage and maintain brand guidelines across digital and traditional marketing collateral
  • Manage and review design efforts done by outside agents for brand accuracy
  • Assist sales team with creative briefs and presentations
  • Ideate and execute creative concepts and structures for trade-show booths and presentations
  • Assist C-Suite with Company-wide level presentation design

Video Production

  • Lead and manage video and motion graphics production from pre-production planning to post-production editing and final content distribution
  • Develop and optimize video production for social media and website platform

Web Design

  • Spearhead web design strategy and upkeep for four separate websites
  • Focus on visually compelling, seamless, user friendly, ADA-Compliant user experience design across IoT
  • Monitor SEO and site health and optimize websites accordingly
  • Design and develop website mockup, wireframes, and final layouts
  • Manage and maintain brand guidelines across digital and traditional marketing collateral

Senior Graphic Designer & UI/UX Web Developer

Certified Group | Remote | April 2025 – Present
  • Regular communication and reporting to executive leadership

Graphic Design

  • Manage and maintain brand guidelines across digital and traditional marketing collateral
  • Manage and review design efforts done by outside agents for brand accuracy
  • Assist sales team with creative briefs and presentations
  • Ideate and execute creative concepts and structures for tradeshow booths and presentations
  • Assist in C-Suite and Company-wide level presentation design

Video Production

  • Lead and manage video and motion graphics production from pre-production planning to post-production editing and final content distribution
  • Develop and optimize video production for social media and website platform

Web Design

  • Ongoing web design strategy for four separate websites
  • Focus on visually compelling, seamless, user friendly, ADA-Compliant user experience design across IoT
  • Monitor SEO and site health and optimize websites accordingly
  • Design and develop website mockup, wireframes, and final layouts
  • Manage and maintain brand guidelines across digital and traditional marketing collateral

Graphic Designer & Animation Specialist

Certified Group | Remote | Jun 2022 – April 2025
  • Regular communication and reporting to executive leadership

Graphic Design

  • Establish brand guidelines and maintain brand identity while collaborating with third party designers
  • Develop and curate content for targeted sales campaigns cross-promoting services across sister companies
  • Direct external contractors in executing brand vision, ensuring collateral quality standards are met
  • Responsible for C-Suite level presentation design

Video Production

  • Lead and manage video and motion graphics production from pre-production planning to post-production editing and final content distribution
  • Develop and optimize video production for social media and website platform
  • Develop motion graphics for social, web, and b2b marketing campaign advertisements
  • Manage and monitor social media channels

Web Design

  • Design and maintain company websites and online presence utilizing UI best practices
  • Assist and collaborate with third party web design and web hosting marketing firm

Graphic Designer

FFF Enterprises, Inc. | Remote + Temecula, CA | Jun 2021 – Jun 2022
  • Develop and implement project management software SOPs
  • Collaborate in multi-disciplinary team environments

Graphic Design

  • Establish and maintain flagship brand and subsidiary brands
  • Lead and contribute to marketing campaigns, from basic research to conceptualizing to execution to post analysis
  • Develop and curate original templates for various distribution channels
  • Collaborate with brand management to conceptualize content in new outlets without sacrificing original creative decisions
  • Lead design presentations, walking team members through thought behind brand initiatives and designs
  • Create design collateral and execute project proofing
  • Lead project management software team training

Motion Deisgn

  • Lead and manage video and motion graphics production from pre-production planning to post-production editing and final content distribution

Jr. Graphic Designer

National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) | San Diego, CA | Oct 2016 – Jun 2021
  • Regular communication and reporting to executive leadership

Design

  • Create design collateral and execute project proofing
  • Create related event collateral without sacrificing creative decisions
  • Present design samples to marketing leadership, walking team members through the thought behind brand initiatives
  • Juggle multiple design projects on extremely tight deadlines
  • Assist in developing original templates for internal communications and external communications
  • Utilize creative storytelling to communicate company advancements and motivate grassroots volunteers
  • Contribute additional support to social media management team
  • Develop copy with guidance from team members and leadership
  • Establish designer standard operating procedure and guides
  • Train new marketing hires

Skillset List


Software + Hardware

  • Adobe Creative
  • Suite
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Indesign
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Dream Weaver
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Adobe XD
  • Asana
  • AHREFs
  • ClickUp
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Dropbox
  • FinalCut Pro
  • Figma
  • Git & GitHub
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Docs
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Slides
  • Hootsuite
  • Hubspot
  • HTML + CSS + Javascript
  • Keynote
  • iOS + Windows
  • Microsoft
  • PowerPoint
  • Proton Suite
  • Excel
  • Teams
  • Twitch
  • Miro
  • Office Suite
  • Opus Pro
  • OBM Studios
  • Plannable
  • Sharepoint
  • Sketch
  • Slack
  • VidIQ
  • Webflow
  • Word
  • WordPress
  • WP Engine
  • YouTube Studio
  • Zoom

Design Skills

  • Branding
  • Broadcast Design (web based/streaming)
  • Color Theory
  • Composition
  • Digital Marketing
  • Digital Design
  • Digital Event Signage
  • Physical Event Structures
  • Illustration
  • Infographic Design
  • Magazine Design
  • Motion Graphics
  • Print Advertisement
  • Print Design
  • Prototyping
  • Report Design (annual)
  • Social Media Content
  • Typography
  • UI/UX Design Principles and Methods
  • Video Editing
  • Video Production
  • Website Maintenance Best Practices

Education


Formal Education

Bachelors of Arts, Multimedia Design

San Diego State University | 2016 – 2019

Associate of Arts Graphic Design

Southwestern College | 2013 – 2016