Graphic designer Jobs in Washington, DC

Job Description

Fusion Innovation's recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionate about their work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectives to our projects. Here at Fusion, we put people first. When you join us, you don't just join a company, you join a family. If you are ready to be part of a fun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard, supported, and make ever lasting mission impacts for our Nation's most sensitive programs, you have come to the right place.

Position Overview

Fusion Innovation is seeking an accomplished Senior Graphic Designer to provide strategic branding guidance and deliver polished visual products for a high-visibility organization. The selected candidate will serve as a trusted design advisor and brand custodian, establishing visual standards and ensuring they are applied consistently across communications and organizational materials. This is a senior, hands-on position for an experienced graphic design professional. The successful candidate must be able to confidently assess branding needs, present well-supported design recommendations, and personally execute those recommendations. Candidates whose experience is primarily in communications or who have performed occasional graphic design as an additional duty will not be a fit for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary advisor on branding, graphic design, and visual communication.

• Develop, refine, and implement organizational branding strategies and visual standards.

• Act as the brand custodian, ensuring consistent use of colors, typography, imagery, logos, and other visual elements.

• Evaluate existing branding and recommend improvements.

• Translate complex information, strategic priorities, and communications objectives into clear and compelling visual products.

• Design executive-level presentations, briefings, reports, publications, digital graphics, signage, event materials, and other communications products.

• Create original concepts and carry them through design, revision, approval, and final production.

• Develop templates, style guides, brand standards, and reusable visual assets.

• Coordinate closely with communications personnel and organizational leadership.

• Present design concepts and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

• Incorporate stakeholder feedback while maintaining design quality and brand consistency.

• Manage multiple projects, deadlines, and competing priorities.

• Prepare files for digital distribution, print production, and other delivery formats.

• Review visual products for quality, consistency, accessibility, and adherence to established standards.

• Maintain organized source files, asset libraries, templates, and final deliverables.

• Coordinate with vendors or production partners when necessary.

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Required Skills

• Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.

• Senior-level professional experience in graphic design, branding, visual communication, or a closely related discipline.

• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing branding recommendations.

• Experience serving as a lead designer, brand manager, brand custodian, or trusted design advisor.

• A professional portfolio demonstrating advanced graphic design skills and completed branding work.

• Strong proficiency with industry-standard graphic design and production software.

• Experience creating original visual concepts rather than relying exclusively on existing templates.

• Strong understanding of typography, color theory, composition, hierarchy, layout, and visual storytelling.

• Experience developing products for both digital and print environments.

• Ability to communicate and defend design recommendations to senior stakeholders.

• Ability to independently manage projects from initial concept through final implementation.

• Strong attention to detail, organization, and quality control.

• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with communications professionals, leadership, and other stakeholders.

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Desired Skills

• Experience developing or managing enterprise-level brand standards.

• Experience supporting executive leadership or a high-visibility organizational front office.

• Experience designing executive presentations, strategic communications, reports, campaigns, and event materials.

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and Section 508 design principles.

• Experience coordinating with print vendors and managing production specifications.

• Familiarity with UI/UX, web graphics, motion graphics, photography, or video production.

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts, or a related discipline.

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Additional Details

• Fusion Innovation anticipates the annual base salary for this position will generally range from $100,000 to $215,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to:
  
  • Years of direct applicable experience with this work and the Customer
  • Relevant education, certifications, and training
  • Contract labor category requirements, skill level, contract bill rate, and hours allocation
  • Alignment with the position's responsibilities
  • Additional specialized skills

  
  

In addition to base salary, eligible employees may be considered for discretionary bonuses and are eligible for Fusion Innovation's comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, vision, company-sponsored retirement contributions, paid leave, professional development opportunities, and other employee benefits.

Fusion Innovation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Fusion Innovation participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for all newly hired employees. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact info@fusioninnovation.com and include your name and contact information.,

About Fusion Innovation

Our primary focus is on developing people to further their own unique craft. This includes helping our team become more experienced leaders, learn a team-first mentality, strive for more innovation, be thought leaders, and better overall people. By putting our people first and treating them as family and helping to develop their careers in a unique and specific fashion, we’re not just giving them more opportunities to grow and be successful, we’re also raising the bar for what our customers, families, and communities receive.

Don’t Just Join a Company - Join a Family

Exciting work, innovative colleagues, great teammates, unique customers, and a company that invests in you personally and professionally. We work hard to make Fusion Innovation a place that makes people excited to come to work; where colleagues stay connected and engaged; and where loved ones are welcomed with open arms.

We hope this makes us feel less like a company and more like a family. We achieve this by our commitments to you, our culture, and our employee focused perks.