Responsibilities

• Serve as project manager for the Communications Department, proactively tracking and advancing content and collateral development and events
• Facilitate transition to a new task management platform
• Maintain the task tracking platform and calendar
• Coordinate content development needs for marketing assets, firm qualifications, award submissions, newsletter, and social content, with the input and collaboration of design staff
• Maintain an updated library of marketing collateral assets (brochures, resumes, etc.)
• Execute internal and external marketing-related communications (announcements, slide decks, etc.)
• Manage the execution of social media efforts with an external social media consultant
• Comfortably work within established InDesign templates to create or update documents requiring basic layout (awards submissions, press kits, proposals)
• Build out website content, working within the CMS (content management system)
• Track and meet website content management needs

Requirements

• 3-5 years related professional experience in marketing and communications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
• Highly organized and proactive, with strong executive function, ability to take ownership of projects, and follow through
• Proficiency with Adobe InDesign (minimum 1-year professional or academic experience; ability to work within templates and make quick, basic graphic decisions)
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Interest and curiosity about architecture, housing, and community design
• Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, able to work on location (offices and event sites)
• Schedule flexibility for occasional evening events
• Strong professional references

Preferred

• Formal training in communications, marketing, journalism, graphic design, and/or advertising
• Experience in the A/E/C industry
• Comfort and ability to write clearly in a professional voice; copyediting and proofreading skills
• Comfort and ability with smartphone photography and video; knowledge of best practices in documentation for social media

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays
• 15 days of annual PTO, increasing after 5 and 10 years
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision—employee care is 100% covered by DBA
• Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Subscription to Modern Health, which includes 12 therapy sessions and 12 virtual coaching sessions/year
• Bike-share and car-share memberships
• Commuter benefits
• Office well-being: weekly culture lunches, healthy snacks, and an annual staff retreat
• Paid Leaves
• Parental Leave (in conjunction with state, local or firm benefits programs):