Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you're in the right place.

We are seeking an experienced Graphic Designer to join an in-house team. This role can be based in the following cities: Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Omaha, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland, and other locations may be considered.

Position Summary

As a Graphic Designer, you will join DLR Group's in-house marketing and communications team to create compelling B2B visual narratives and assets. You will be a champion of the DLR Group brand, maintaining its integrity while creatively adapting the brand palette to suit diverse marketing and storytelling goals. You will collaborate daily with a multidisciplinary marketing and brand team; co-own our brand integrity with fellow graphic designers; and be supported by the Brand Communications Leader and Graphic Design Leader.

The Successful Candidate:

• Leads stakeholders and collaborators through creative processes
• Designs and produces diverse deliverables, including but not limited to long-form brochures and reports; infographics and diagrams; social media and interactive web assets; slide presentations; and trade show materials.
• Actively helps stakeholders develop their story from the ground up, with emphasis on identifying and proposing ways that visual storytelling and purposeful design can support their goals
• Communicates clearly, actively, and effectively; and excels at conveying the value propositions of design ideas and solutions
• Thrives working with a single brand palette, pushing creativity within a unified brand identity
• Is equally passionate about the details in producing design assets, and iterating big picture creative concepts
• Manages multiple, diverse concurrent projects to meet deadlines with design excellence

Required Qualifications:

• 3-6 years of graphic design experience with an in-house team or creative agency
• A compelling portfolio of B2B marketing, communications, and/or editorial design and layout work
• Experience with a wide range of print and digital deliverables
• Expert InDesign skills - this will be essential for work supporting our marketing teams.
• Expertise in other fundamental design tools, including but not limited to: Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc.); email platforms such as Mailchimp; PowerPoint; and website builders
• Confidence, self-discipline, and the ability to work effectively as a self-starter and across multiple time zones

Preferred Qualifications:

• Design experience serving professional services firms (specifically marketing)
• Experience creating architectural renderings/visualizations
• Experience with creating motion graphics (and related design tools)
• Experience in UI/UX design (and related design tools)

*TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT A CURRENT PORTFOLIO OR WORK SAMPLES IN PDF FORMAT*

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients' success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.