Senior Transportation Graphic Designer

HDR•Irvine, CA

About The Position

At HDR, employee-owners are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and empowered to contribute authentic ideas. The company emphasizes its impact on the world through its work. The Transportation Business Group focuses on shaping systems that move people and goods safely, efficiently, and sustainably, contributing to economic vitality, public safety, and quality of life. This involves designing infrastructure like highways, bridges, transit, rail, aviation, and marine facilities. The team comprises diverse professionals including planners, engineers, architects, and specialists who collaborate to solve complex mobility challenges with innovation and technical excellence. This role is seen as an opportunity to lead progress and leave a legacy of connected transportation networks. As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will be responsible for planning, managing, and delivering projects from concept to completion, collaborating with designers and clients. You will build strong client relationships, apply critical and creative thinking to elevate solutions, and develop corporate and marketing materials, including PowerPoint presentations, ensuring brand compliance. The role also involves presenting as a creative lead, balancing multiple projects, providing creative leadership, fostering team growth through mentorship, and continuously refining design processes. You will research technology and production techniques, maintain quality control for graphics and text, coordinate photography projects, and support creative projects for events and conferences.

Requirements

A minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience
Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) Microsoft Office suite
Ability to design a wide variety of styles
Eye for design details, such as typography, alignment, hierarchy, etc
Strong portfolio showing design experience
Understanding of branding/brand development, communications, and research
Proficiency in customer service, strong communication and negotiation skills, flexibility, time management, project management, detail oriented, leadership, and teamwork
Experience with Premiere, After Effects and Audition; ability and experience working on strategic campaigns (Video Designers Only)
Offset printing/digital printing/color correction; ability to coordinate complex projects

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Web Design or Fine Arts related field of study or equivalent experience
Experience with Premiere, After Effects, Dreamweaver, and CSS; offset printing/digital printing/color correction
Minimum of 6 years of relevant industry experience.
Commitment to quality, with the ability to learn and apply our brand writing style, perform thorough spell checks, follow text formatting standards, and proofread accurately.
Brings excellent photo editing expertise.

Responsibilities

Plan, manages, and delivers projects from concept through completion, collaborating with designers and partnering with clients to shape final deliverables.
Builds strong client relationships and applies critical and creative thinking to elevate solutions beyond provided requirements.
Develop corporate and marketing materials, including PowerPoint presentations, ensuring brand compliance and high attention to detail.
Present and contribute as a creative lead in meetings, pursuit efforts, and cross functional initiatives.
Demonstrates flexibility and strong time management skills while successfully balancing multiple projects and meeting due dates.
Provide creative leadership by delivering multiple solutions and fostering team growth through mentorship.
Demonstrate a strong passion for design with a self motivated, proactive approach to refining design processes. Maintains a strong growth mindset and continuously learning, applying, and sharing new skills with the team.
Act as a collaborative team player, proactively supporting teammates and embracing opportunities to learn and grow new skills.
Research technology, production techniques, and processes to inform project approaches.
Maintain quality control by reviewing graphics and text for accuracy, ensuring correct spelling, consistent formatting, strong attention to detail, and adherence to technical writing guidelines.
Assist in coordinating photography projects, including scheduling, logistics and organizing photography files.
Support creative projects by developing graphics and signage and securing vendor quotes for events and conferences.