Senior Graphic Designer - Marketing Operations (Finance)

Wearing many hats, our Corporate Services team is the backbone of our organization, helping Gresham Smith function at the highest level. If you're interested in a career that aligns with your skillset-whether it's Accounting, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Information Technology, Marketing Resources, or Risk Management-we invite you to join a diverse and dedicated team that supports the creation of our communities' most vital institutions and infrastructure.

The Senior Graphic Designer works closely with marketing coordinators and principals to maintain a busy production schedule, create superior custom graphics and layouts, and produce highly strategic qualifications, proposals, presentations, and other collateral material to help the firm tell our story.

Responsibilities:

• Create graphics that make complex information understandable and formulate design concepts that are engaging, attractive, and user-friendly.
• Collaborate with a varied group of individuals from different backgrounds, ranging from Architects, Interior Designers, Planners, Engineers, Marketers, and Visual and Graphic Designers to develop marketing materials presentations and solutions that drive business outcomes.
• Be an advocate of exceptional design and maintain Gresham Smith brand standards at the highest level of quality.
• Combine content and strategic messaging into visually effective and persuasive deliverables.
• Solve challenging information and communication design problems and present multiple concepts for consideration.
• Coordinate printed projects directly with vendor/printer to completion. Materials may include market-specific brochures/booklets, announcements, invitations, etc.
• Work with the team to manage jobs from concept through completion.
• Continually think of new ways to refresh and present the same information with the audience in mind.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Graphic Design or related field and a minimum of 5 years of graphic layout/design experience.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, client-driven environment.
• Tech-savvy self-starter who can operate independently on the majority of day-to-day activities.
• Strong portfolio to be presented and defended.
• Advanced in InDesign, Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent organizational and creative skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment yet execute as an individual when needed.
• Excellent persuasion and negotiation skills.
• Very high attention to detail on the creation and through the entire process of graphic development.
• Willingness to present, critique, and be critiqued.

Gresham Smith is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Gresham Smith provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender, national origin, status as a protected veteran, disability or any other classification protected by law.

Gresham Smith will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, headhunters, contract recruiters, search firms, or employment agencies. An executed GRESHAM PLACEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT (PSA) is required prior to any payment obligation for either a referral or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously executed PSA, GRESHAM SMITH explicitly reserves the right to recruit and hire those candidate(s) at its discretion, and without any financial obligation whatsoever to the recruiter or agency. Any such unsolicited resume or candidate contact information, including those submitted directly to GRESHAM SMITH'S hiring managers or any other employee, shall become the property of GRESHAM SMITH upon receipt.