Graphic Designer/Photographer

Graphic Designer

Location: Chantilly, VA

Work Type: Onsite

Remote Work: No

Job Description

This position is a unique and nuanced role that requires a highly versatile skill set. Beyond comprehensive graphic design experience, the ideal candidate must possess strong communication and customer service skills, alongside the ability to operate with autonomous oversight. Additionally, this specific role demands professional photography capabilities, including both the live capture and backend processing of high-quality images.

Gridiron IT is seeking a Senior Graphic Designer to join our creative team and deliver mission-critical visual solutions. In this role, you will design, develop, and execute compelling visual concepts that elevate communications for our customers and stakeholders. You will shape visual strategies across a wide range of internal and external communications, translating complex information into clear, high-impact digital and print artwork. You will guide projects autonomously from the initial strategy and conceptualization phases through to final production, ensuring all products meet strict quality and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Advanced Technical Skillset: Mastery of tradecraft ensures that elements like typography, layout, and color are perfectly executed, creating a polished final product that conveys quality and builds trust.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the proven ability to confidently present design concepts, articulate creative rationale, and collaborate effectively with enterprise-wide stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Emerging Technologies: Proactive interest in researching and leveraging the latest design tools and industry trends to drive creative innovation and team efficiency.
• Strategic Consultation: Act as a strategic design consultant with high emotional intelligence. Actively listen to customer requirements, uncover the root of their requests, identify the best visual solutions, and confidently articulate the rationale behind design choices to build long-term, trusted partnerships.
• Mission-Driven Creative Execution: Translate complex, technical, or detail-rich data and distill it into clear, digestible, and visually engaging graphics across print, digital, and environmental mediums. Ensure high-grade accuracy and compliance with complex data, brand standards, and classification guidelines prior to final delivery, recognizing that accuracy is critical to the customer's mission.
• Timeline and Scope Management: Proactively manage assigned workload and project timelines within Workamajig. Exhibit a strong grasp of project scope management by identifying scope creep early, diplomatically realigning stakeholder expectations, and keeping deliverables strictly on track.
• Collaborative Mentorship: Foster a collaborative, team-first mentality with a willingness to share knowledge, provide feedback in constructive creative critiques, and help elevate the overall visual output and efficiency of the design team.
• Secure Production and Pre-flight: Conduct basic digital press and large-format printing functions, perform pre-flight checks, and safely operate print production and production equipment within secure facility guidelines.

Qualifications

Required:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI Poly.
• Portfolio: A robust professional portfolio demonstrating a wide range of graphic design capabilities, complex problem-solving, and a strong grasp of typography, layout, and color theory. (Must provide a link or PDF attachment with application).
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Interactive Design, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in the graphic design field.
• 3+ years of relevant customer service experience, preferably within the government.
• 3+ years of relevant project management experience.
• Highly skilled in Adobe Creative Cloud (specifically Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop).
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products.

Desired:

• Master's Degree or higher in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Interactive Design, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in the graphic design field.
• 5+ years of relevant project management experience.
• 5+ years of relevant customer service experience.
• Hands-on experience with Workamajig project management software.

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

TS/SCI & CI POLYGRAPH REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE

Compensation and Benefits

Salary Range $100,000 - $145,000/YR (Compensation is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, skills, education, certifications, seniority, and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.)

Benefits: Gridiron offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), disability & ADD insurance, life and pet insurance to eligible employees. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 30 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Gridiron's benefits programs.

Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status.

Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area that supports our clients' missions throughout the United States. Gridiron IT specializes in providing comprehensive IT services tailored to meet the needs of federal agencies. Our capabilities include IT Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Software Integration & Development, Data Solution & AI, and Enterprise Applications. These capabilities are backed by Gridiron IT's experienced workforce and our commitment to ensuring we meet and exceed our clients' expectations.

Skills

Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Compensation Management, Compensation and Benefits, Consulting, Customer Support/Service, Design Services, Emerging Technology, Enterprise Applications, Federal Government, Fine Art, Government, Graphic Design, Graphics, Industry/Trade Analysis, Information Technology & Information Systems, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Internet Security, Leadership, Mentoring, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Product Family, Photography, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Printing, Problem Solving Skills, Project Management Software, Project/Program Management, Security Software, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Software Development, Team Player, Technical Support, Time Management, Top Secret Clearance, Typography, Writing Skills

About the Company:

Gridiron IT