Senior Graphic Designer

Senior Graphic Designer (New York, NY)

Full-Time | On-Site

PVEDI is seeking a confident, visionary, and collaborative Senior Graphic Designer to join our growing team. This role is a unique opportunity to shape and elevate our brand through compelling visual storytelling and design excellence. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker, an inspiring leader, and a dependable executor—ready to contribute across departments and help drive our marketing and brand initiatives forward.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivers brand-driven content that supports strategic marketing goals while maintaining brand consistency across all platforms and media.
• Designs a wide range of visual content including social media graphics, website assets, presentations, career/trade fair materials, internal communications, and other special projects.
• Leads design standards by developing and maintaining firm-wide graphic guidelines in alignment with our evolving brand identity and messaging.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with the Marketing Manager, Marketing Specialists, architects, engineers, geologists, and leadership to translate complex ideas into impactful visual materials.
• Contributes to digital presence by designing content for social media and our website, utilizing HTML skills where needed.
• Ensures campaign success by generating creative ideas, tracking campaign performance, and applying insights based on experience to guide future design direction.
• Partners with external agencies as needed on branding projects, special campaigns, and visual storytelling.
• Stay ahead of trends by keeping current with the latest graphic design tools, techniques, and technologies to ensure our visual output remains fresh and effective.

Key Competencies

• Design + Lead: Delivers high-quality work from concept to final product while mentoring others and offering creative directions.
• Protects + Expands the Brand: Own the visual identity and ensure it aligns with our brand strategy to build recognition and awareness.
• Sense of Urgency: Approaches work with focus, energy, and intention. Recognizes priorities and responds quickly to business needs, project deadlines, and team requests. Take initiative to move projects forward, anticipate roadblocks, and deliver timely.
• Strategizes + Delivers Results: Contribute to short- and long-term business objectives by implementing scalable systems and measurable creative outputs.
• Confident + Value-Driven: Show up with consistency, maturity, and kindness. Foster a culture of excellence, trust, and creativity.
• Team Player: Share ideas openly, accept feedback gracefully, and meet deadlines reliably. Be a relentless, solutions-oriented problem solver.

Software: Adobe Creative Suite, specifically InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, UI/UX design software such as Figma, Website building software such as WordPress a plus, Video software such as After Effects a plus, AI Graphic Design software such as Adobe Firefly a plus

Design Fundamentals & Skills: Typography, Color theory, Composition and Layout, Responsive design principles, Grid systems and visual alignment.

File Preparation & Production: Print production and prepress setup (bleeds, crops, CMYK/RGB), Digital asset optimization (image compression, responsive scaling), File types and formats: JPG, PNG, PDF, EPS, SVG, PSD, AI, etc., Exporting assets for web, print, video, and social platforms

Digital & Interactive Design: UI design (buttons, layouts, interactions), Web and mobile design (responsive layouts, design systems), Basic HTML/CSS understanding (helpful, not required)

PVEDI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, PVEDI complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. PVEDI expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.