Creative Design Specialist

ABOUT THE POSITION

Creative Designers at an engineering firm? Absolutely!

We're seeking a Creative Design Specialist to join our expanding New England Marketing Team. This position offers the opportunity to advance your career within a dynamic team, while contributing to a variety of projects that aim to positively impact our communities and the world around us.

As a Creative Design Specialist, you will be responsible for producing design assets as part of larger, holistic projects that support the firm's business development and marketing efforts. This includes creating visually engaging proposals, presentations, and other client-facing materials while maintaining brand consistency across all mediums. You will work closely with internal teams to create designs that effectively communicate our firm's capabilities and enhance pursuit strategies.

The ideal candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and ready to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, impactful marketing solutions.

Candidates must provide either a portfolio link or PDF of work samples that highlight your experience with document layout, graphic development, and presentation design.

Responsibilities

Pursuit Strategy and Proposal Development: Support proposal production through all phases of development while collaborating with team members to strengthen messaging and competitive positioning. Plan, conceptualize, and design compelling and impactful graphics that convey complex information more concisely (e.g., covers/tabs, long-form document layout, charts/tables, maps, infographics, technical diagrams).
• Visibility and Communications: Provide support on internal or external visibility communications, conferences, webinars, and other regional industry events and experiences (e.g., digital communications, social media, email, ads, presentations).
• Client Deliverables: May support and coordinate graphic design projects for client deliverables (e.g., project branding, printed reports, online documents, public outreach materials, custom infographics, website assets).
• Coordination and Collaboration: Participate in information sharing and collaboration with team members, confirming milestones and expectations are clearly communicated for smooth project completion. May participate or present in meetings with technical staff with supervision from senior design or marketing staff.
• Brand Compliance: Learn, use, and adhere to corporate brand standards, including VHB's marketing, communications, imagery, and deliverables templates and policies.
• Closeout and Asset Management: Complete closeout of projects and contribute to the organization and management of key marketing data and visual assets.
• Best Practices: Model marketing and communication best practices, share knowledge with teams, and strengthen internal relationships with both marketing peers and technical staff. Participate and present in team meetings and trainings.
• Company Understanding: Take initiative to learn about VHB's mission, core values, markets, services, regional leadership, and organizational goals.
• Project Management and Accountability: Take ownership of personal performance, respond constructively to challenges, and complete all assignments in compliance with deadlines, budgets, and quality expectations.

Skills & Attributes

• Knowledge of digital and print design principles
• Growth-oriented and career-focused
• Adaptable to new technology and design advancements in the industry
• Team oriented with ability to perform multiple tasks independently in a timely manner and collaborate effectively and positively with coworkers
• Self-motivated, highly organized, and detail oriented
• Excellent creativity and problem-solving skills
• Skills or interest in photography, video, animation, branding, website design, map creation within ArcGIS, UX design, or 3D modeling desired but not required

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of graphic design experience required, preferably in the AEC industry
• BFA in Graphic Design or related discipline
• Must be proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Expected knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, including PowerPoint (VHB is on a PC platform)
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle simultaneous, varied assignments while providing consistent quality
• This is a hybrid role with an expected minimum 3 days in-office time
• The ability to travel to other offices, off-site meetings and events as required.

We are VHB! We're an inspired and innovative team of engineers, scientists, planners, and designers who partner with clients in the transportation, real estate, institutional, and energy industries, as well as federal, state, and local governments. Our work helps improve mobility, enhance communities, and contribute to economic vitality. We do this while balancing development and infrastructure needs with stewardship of our environment.

Our people make us great! VHB provides a differentiating employee experience, which includes:

• Diverse and inclusive culture of collaboration and innovation
• Opportunity to work on complex, transformational projects
• Community and social responsibility as sustainable stewards
• Focus on learning, development, and career growth
• Best-in-class benefits, including flexible, hybrid workplace

We are consistently rated one of the top AEC firms to work for across our 30+ offices on the East Coast. We're growing, and we hope you'll join us!

VHB is a proud Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. Since our founding, we have intentionally fostered a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion-supported by deep-rooted core values, one of which is diversity. All individuals receive consideration for employment based on their qualifications without discrimination for race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, pregnancy, marital status, or any other basis protected by law.

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