digital media designer

Digital media designers create and edit graphics, animations, sound, text and video to assist in the creation of integrated multimedia products. They may perform activities related to the web, social networks, augmented reality and virtual reality but exclude the production of music using physical instruments and complex software sound synthesis tools. Digital media designers may program and build websites, mobile applications and other multimedia products.

The most in-demand skills for this role include digital content creation, interactive media, digital systems, web programming, adobe creative suite, task algorithmisation. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives digital media designer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.