The ideal candidate will have strong creative skills and a portfolio of work which demonstrates their passion for illustrative design and typography. This candidate will have experiences in working with numerous different design platforms such as digital and print forms.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the team to ensure consistency of designs across various media outlets
- Create compelling and effective designs, print and digital media
- Maintain awareness of current industry and technology standards, social media, competitive landscape and market trends
- With little to no supervision, leads strategic graphic design solutions to support the production of winning proposals, sales materials, and presentations, including but not limited to long document layouts, PowerPoint presentations, story boards, covers/dividers, marketing collateral/brochures, illustrations, interactive PDFs, ads, and digital media
- Plans, conceptualizes, and designs compelling and impactful graphics while collaborating with proposal team members and technical staff to strengthen messaging and successfully sell Jacobs
- Conveys complex ideas with smart and concise graphic designs; develops complex concepts visually beyond bullet points
- Interpret and convert technical data and conceptual content into more accessible and visually appealing information
Here's what you'll need
- Associates or Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design or related discipline from a four-year College/University; work experience in A/E/C that matches the requirements of the position in lieu of degree; Masters degree a plus
- 4+ years professional graphic design experience; A/E/C and/or Sales experience a plus
- Exceptional skills in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat) and Microsoft PowerPoint; proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams); experience working with additional creative, visual, interactive, and multimedia tools a plus
- Advanced knowledge of procedures and technical concepts required for role, including design aptitude to understand what constitutes good design, and a demonstrated ability to apply that knowledge using layout, typography, graphics, and images in order to produce highly effective visual communications
- Prior Architectural/Engineering & Construction and/or Proposal and Sales experience a plus
- Knowledge of ArcGIS plug-in for Illustrator, and Interactive PDFs a plus
- Illustration and hand sketching experience a plus
