Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of the enterprise visual identity, brand platform, and creative direction.
• Oversee concept creation, storyboarding, design planning, and visual storytelling for digital and print materials.
• Direct creative teams in producing graphics, campaign assets, multimedia, and integrated visual products.
• Ensure consistency of brand voice and visual design across all communication channels and content types.
• Collaborate with UX, multimedia, marketing, and communications teams to unify creative approaches.
• Review and approve design deliverables, ensuring adherence to accessibility, quality, and brand standards.
• Guide development of templates, component libraries, creative toolkits, and visual governance artifacts.
• Translate complex strategic and technical requirements into compelling visual narratives.
• Oversee vendor or subcontractor creative output to ensure alignment with enterprise expectations.
• Support high-priority campaigns, leadership communications, and mission-critical design needs.
• Analyze creative performance metrics and incorporate insights into continuous creative improvement.

Requirements

• Strong creative leadership and ability to define visual strategy.
• Exceptional communication skills for interacting with stakeholders and design teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive high-quality creative execution.
• Strong attention to detail, brand consistency, and design rigor.
• Ability to guide, mentor, and elevate multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects).
• Deep understanding of visual hierarchy, layout, color theory, typography, and accessibility (508/WCAG).
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, and brand governance.
• Ability to translate abstract concepts and strategic inputs into compelling visual communication.
• Demonstrated success leading visual strategy across digital, print, and multimedia platforms.
• Experience producing unified visual systems, brand standards, and enterprise design frameworks.

Preferred

• Experience working in federal government, defense, or public sector campaigns.

Benefits

• Family & parental support
• 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)
• Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy
• Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)
• 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents
• $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan
• $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan
• Healthcare & wellbeing
• Three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)
• $0 employee-cost dental and vision
• 10 days’ health leave per year (mental and physical)