At Woolpert, you’ll do work that matters.
As a leading global architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm, we help clients solve complex challenges that shape communities, strengthen critical infrastructure, advance technology, and improve the world around us. Here, you’ll collaborate across disciplines, tackle meaningful projects, and build a career defined by growth, opportunity, and impact.
Position Overview:
Woolpert is hiring an experienced Graphic Designer to join our dynamic Marketing team.
The Graphic Designer will have experience developing creative work for B2B organizations, technical industries, or professional services firms, is highly valued. In this role, you'll collaborate with fellow designers, marketing professionals, and business leaders to develop cohesive, high-quality creative work across print, digital, and experiential applications. The ideal candidate is a confident, independent designer who can translate complex ideas into compelling visual solutions and manage projects from initial concept through final production. They bring strong design judgment, creative curiosity, and a genuine enthusiasm for the design industry, staying engaged with contemporary work, influential designers, and creative studios. From marketing campaigns and publications to trade show experiences, branded merchandise, and digital content, this position plays an important role in shaping how Woolpert presents itself to audiences around the world.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.
What You Will Do:
- Creative Concept & Information Design: Develop original creative concepts and thoughtful visual solutions that respond to communication objectives, audience needs, and brand strategy.
- Brand & Marketing: Design marketing collateral, advertising, publications, reports, and campaign materials while championing Woolpert's visual identity and contributing to its continued evolution.
- Experiential & Environmental: Develop graphics for trade shows, conferences, recruiting events, signage, displays, branded apparel, merchandise, and other physical brand experiences.
- Digital Design: Create engaging visual assets for websites, social media, email marketing, digital advertising, and internal communications, ensuring consistency and quality across platforms.
- Templates & Presentations: Develop, maintain, and refine branded templates in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe InDesign, balancing visual quality, functionality, and ease of use.
- Production & Execution: Prepare accurate, production-ready artwork for print, digital, large-format, and specialty applications. Collaborate with external vendors to ensure quality throughout production.
- Creative Collaboration & Project Ownership: Partner with cross-functional teams, present and articulate design recommendations, and independently manage projects from concept through completion while balancing deadlines, feedback, and competing priorities.
What You Will Bring:
- 7+ years of professional graphic design experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and demonstrated ability.
- A compelling portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, sophisticated typography, strong visual design, and high-quality execution across multiple mediums.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, including document templates, styles, tables, and page formatting, along with proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Strong understanding of typography, composition, color, visual hierarchy, and brand identity systems.
- Knowledge of print production processes, file preparation, and designing for different materials and formats.
- Ability to develop original concepts, communicate design decisions, and independently execute projects with minimal direction.
- A passion for graphic design, with an active interest in contemporary design, influential studios, emerging trends, and the broader creative industry.
- Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and manage multiple priorities.
Additional Skills & Experience:
- Familiarity with accessibility principles and inclusive design practices.
- Experience using AI-assisted creative tools such as Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Gemini, Nano Banana, and CoPilot to support concept development, visual exploration, and creative production workflows
Portfolio Requirement:
- A portfolio is required for consideration. Applicants must provide a link to a digital portfolio or an accessible online collection of work as part of their application.
Portfolios should demonstrate conceptual development, visual design proficiency, and execution across a range of applications. Examples of branding, marketing campaigns, publications, digital design, and experiential work are particularly relevant.
Applications submitted without a portfolio or portfolio link will not be considered.
Benefits You Will Love:
Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:
- Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
- Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
- Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
- Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
- Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
- Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!
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Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/
Woolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. Woolpert is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. You may view more about EEO on our website: Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting your Recruiter
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via email, the internet, or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
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