Senior Graphic Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Develop compelling visual communications that translate approved messaging, business objectives, and technical concepts into creative assets supporting marketing, communications, business development, recruiting, and customer engagement.
• Design and produce high-quality creative assets across the full print and digital ecosystem, including marketing collateral, executive presentations, advertising, brochures, one-pagers, white papers, social media, email, digital campaigns, and environmental graphics.
• Apply NODA's corporate brand standards, creative direction, and visual identity consistently across all marketing materials.
• Design websites, landing pages, and digital experiences that support integrated marketing campaigns, customer engagement, and business development, applying user-centered design and accessibility best practices.
• Ensure digital and print communications comply with Section 508 accessibility standards and government publishing requirements where applicable.
• Translate complex technical concepts, including AI, autonomous systems, robotics, software platforms, command and control, and mission capabilities, into compelling visual communications for technical, executive, military, government, and industry audiences.
• Organize complex information into clear visual narratives through technical illustrations, architecture diagrams, process flows, maps, iconography, infographics, and data visualizations.
• Develop creative assets that accurately represent military organizations, Federal Civilian agencies, Defense technologies, and mission environments while maintaining technical credibility and visual authenticity.
• Partner with Marketing, Business Development, Product, Engineering, Video Production, Recruiting, and Executive Leadership to translate ideas and business priorities into effective visual communications.
• Manage creative projects from concept through final production, ensuring quality, accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery across print, digital, environmental, and experiential media.
• Edit, retouch, composite, and color correct photography, leveraging official government imagery, technical assets, event photography, and original creative work.
• Prepare production-ready files for print, digital publishing, large-format graphics, environmental graphics, exhibits, advertising, vehicle wraps, presentations, and multimedia.
• Maintain creative asset libraries, templates, design standards, and production workflows while managing multiple concurrent projects.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of agency or in-house experience in graphic design, visual communications, digital design, motion design, or related creative disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience supporting a Defense technology company, Government Contracting, military, aerospace organization, Federal Civilian agency, or similarly technical B2G organization.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative execution across print, digital, web, motion, experiential, environmental, and executive communications.
• Advanced proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, and Figma.
• Demonstrated experience producing creative assets across the complete print and digital ecosystem, from traditional publishing and print collateral to responsive web design, large-format graphics, technical illustrations, and multimedia.
• Demonstrated understanding of the visual language of the Department of War, Federal Civilian agencies, military services, Combatant Commands, and the Defense Industrial Base.
• Experience selecting and applying appropriate military imagery, official government photography (including DVIDS), military customs, terminology, and organizational distinctions.
• Experience developing Section 508-compliant visual communications.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled creative technologies to improve workflows while maintaining exceptional quality and human oversight.
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Digital Media, Fine Arts, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing creative assets supporting Defense technology, military operations, command and control, autonomy, robotics, or other national security missions.
• Experience designing large-format exhibits, trade show environments, environmental graphics, vehicle wraps, and customer demonstration experiences.
• Demonstrated experience producing motion graphics and video content for multimedia storytelling and digital campaigns; 3D work in Cinema 4D or Blender is a plus.
• Experience creating technical software diagrams, architecture graphics, data visualizations, operational graphics, and complex information design.
• Active U.S. security clearance.

Skills & Attributes

• Sound creative judgment, balancing creativity, clarity, technical accuracy, and mission relevance to select the right visual solution for the audience and medium.
• Operationally agile, managing multiple concurrent creative priorities while adapting quickly to changing business needs and compressed timelines.
• Bias toward action, proactively solving problems and moving creative work forward without waiting for perfect direction.
• Precise and detail-oriented, maintaining exceptional standards for accuracy, consistency, production quality, and accessibility.
• Collaborative mindset, building trusted partnerships across Marketing, Business Development, Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership while incorporating feedback.