About the role

  • Exceptional Graphic Designer with art-director aspirations at Northrop Grumman. Leading visual standards and collaborating with teams to enhance brand communication efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the conceptualization and execution of brand guidelines, ensuring consistent representation of our brand identity across all touchpoints.
  • Oversee and execute the creation of advertising materials, both digital and print, that effectively communicate our message and resonate with both our internal and external target audiences.
  • Provide guidance, mentorship, and inspiration to junior designers, fostering their growth and encouraging their best work.
  • Collaborate closely with marketing, product development, and engineering teams to align design efforts with overall business goals.
  • Stay current with industry trends, design technologies, and emerging creative techniques, and apply them to enhance our design approach.
  • Design digital and print ads, presentations, announcements, webpages, brochures, handbooks, posters, special event graphics, infographics, pamphlets, data sheets, UX interfaces and other digital material as needed.
  • Work directly with senior/executive leadership to prepare presentations, slides, tradeshow/event materials and other executive level marketing communication assets.
  • Conceive, design and illustrate complex information and editorial renderings, graphs and other forms of illustration.
  • Help to improve processes for visually disseminating complicated messages and data into an easy-to-digest format for a variety of audiences.
  • Provide input on reproduction and printing processes through in-house resources or outside vendors if necessary.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree and 3+ years of relevant experience OR Associate’s degree and 7+ years of relevant experience OR High School Diploma and 9+ years of relevant experience.
  • Professional experience in graphic design and art direction.
  • Proven portfolio showcasing exceptional design skills and creative thinking.
  • Strong understanding of branding principles and the ability to translate brand strategy into compelling visuals.
  • Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills to guide and motivate a team of designers.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) and other relevant design software.
  • Mastery of Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Proven ability to implement AI tools into daily workflows for enhanced efficiency and productivity.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively present and explain design concepts to both internal teams and customers.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines without compromising quality.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
  • Bonuses
  • Long Term Incentives for Vice President or Director positions

Job title

Principal Graphic Designer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$85,600 - $128,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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