A Jacobs Senior Graphic Designer is a proactive team player, excited and ready to engage on a multitude of projects, from concept to completion—from handouts and project sheets to complex visually - compelling proposals and presentations—in a fast-paced environment for our Buildings & Infrastructure Americas team. Must be highly creative and innovative, ready to conceptualize, design, and develop visually appealing graphics and content that will inform and engage the intended audience. Must possess proven design aptitude and advanced understanding of design process, principles, and production techniques. This role requires expert technical skills and expertise in developing and executing creative solutions using Adobe Creative Cloud applications (including, but not limited to: InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop), as well as presentation software (including but not limited to: Microsoft PowerPoint) to deliver those solutions in a variety of print and digital formats. Along with excellent communication skills, this individual will be flexible, dedicated, organized, collaborative, self-motivated, and can work effectively in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment.
Applicants must provide either a portfolio link or PDF samples of work that highlight your work in layout, graphics and presentation.
Prior Architectural/Engineering & Construction and/or Proposal and Sales experience a plus. Applicants must be prepared to flex their working hours as needed to align with peers in North America. Must have
flexibility to work overtime hours and on weekends as needed, especially for deadline-driven assignments.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Each day will present different activities and opportunities as you help position Jacobs for success in our sales efforts. Our Senior Graphic Designers will be responsible for the following general activities:
- Independently drive strategic graphic design solutions to support the production of winning complex 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
- Leads interview visuals and presentations by working live to develop sketches and concepts
- Understands diverse perspectives and offers ideas to solve design problems and drive effective solutions
- Plans, conceptualizes, and designs compelling and impactful graphics while collaborating with proposal team members and technical staff to strengthen messaging and successfully sell Jacobs
- Knowledgeable of one or more markets and/or client groups within Jacobs; begin to develop relationships account teams
- 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
- Uses diverse perspectives to solve design problems and drive effective solutions
- Expert in software trends; acts as a resource for graphic design methods and tools, developing and implementing process improvements, tool(s) improvements, and best practices
- Shares technical expertise with others and provides guidance and support; mentors junior staff to help grow their skills and advance their careers
- Coordinate and provide production and vendor support for submittals and interviews to instruct external vendors as needed on printing requirements
- Provides improvements in processes, productivity, and efficiency for our Creative Solutions team
- Proof work to ensure quality control
- Proven experience dealing with constantly evolving deadlines in an ever-changing landscape; must be able to coordinate and collaborate with team members in remote locations, in different time zones
Other Job Specifications & Expectations
- Collaborative and engaging mindset; thrives in a detail-focused, highly deadline-driven, team-oriented environment
- Displays highest level of creativity, with proactive, and innovative work approaches; implements ideas, solves problems, and creates advanced, complex visual solutions to bring concepts to life
- Customer service-oriented demeanor with a positive, collaborative, and energetic approach focused on deepening relationships with account teams
- Confidence and ability to drive concepts with team members, high level executives and decision makers
- Problem solver, critical thinking skills with a solution-oriented approach
- Must have strong written and verbal communications skills and the ability to work directly with internal clients; ability to edit and proofread a plus
- Manages multiple, complex project assignments at a time, set priorities, manage time, and organize work according to best practices
- Flexibility to work extended hours and weekends when project deadlines require
- Motivation to continually self-improve with a desire to learn new innovative tools, techniques and processes
Sales Functions and Processes
- Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external clients
- Translates project and client requirements into scope of work
- Identifies areas in proposals where graphics are better suited to tell a story
Jacobs/Industry Acumen
- Embraces our organizational core values, code of conduct, and culture of caring, safety and inclusion
- Compliance with corporate processes, procedures and protocols
