The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented designer with strong typographic and layout skills, a sensitivity to architectural imagery, and the ability to organize complex content visually. This role is well suited to someone who thrives in a deadline-driven environment, can take direction from multiple levels of staff, and brings a genuine interest in design and the built environment.
Now in its sixth decade of practice, Olson Kundig is a collaborative design practice whose work includes cultural and museum projects, exhibition design, commercial and mixed-use design (including wineries and sports facilities), private and multi-family residential, hospitality projects, places of worship, interior design, product design, and landscape design. With deep roots in the Pacific Northwest, the firm and its staff of over 250 work with clients around the world. More information at olsonkundig.com.
Key Responsibilities
Business Development and Pursuits
- Design and produce proposals, statements of qualifications, portfolios, and case studies for competitive pursuits
- Develop interview presentations, display boards, and pursuit-specific collateral in collaboration with the business development team and project leaders
- Create diagrams, maps, and information graphics that clearly communicate project ideas and team qualifications
- Maintain and update proposal templates and graphic standards to support consistency and efficiency
Communications and Visual Media
- Design graphics for award submissions, lectures, publications, media kits, press announcements, and reports
- Create social media graphics, email communications, and newsletters, including animation and video assets
- Support presentation and lecture materials for firm leadership, including video editing as needed
- Contribute to special projects such as books, exhibitions, and environmental graphics
Digital Asset Management and Photography
- Upload, tag, rank, and organize photo, video, and graphic assets in the firm's digital asset management system
- Support photoshoot coordination, including shot list development and post-shoot image selection with project teams
- Perform image editing, retouching, and processing, and maintain organized archives of image originals
Brand and Production
- Support the production and consistent application of the firm's visual identity across print and digital materials
- Coordinate with vendors, including board production and printers for business cards, stationery, and other collateral
- Help maintain graphics team tools and processes, including task boards, project punchlists, and boards inventory
Qualifications
- 4-6 years of graphic design experience creating a range of print, digital, and web-based graphics, ideally in the AEC industry (architecture, engineering, and construction) or a related design field
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field
- Strong design, typographic, and layout skills, with the ability to organize complex content visually
- Experience with image and video editing and retouching
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Bridge, Lightroom), Microsoft Office, and WordPress
- Familiarity with digital asset management systems such as OpenAsset, and experience with print vendors and production processes, a plus
- Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment without a loss in quality
- Interest in architecture, design, and the built environment
- Self-driven, adaptable, and solutions-focused, with a desire to stay current on production techniques and design trends
- Dependable and collaborative, with the ability to take direction and incorporate feedback from multiple levels of staff
These are our team values: we are adaptable, ambitious, caring, collaborative, and dependable in how we approach our work and support one another.
- A creative work environment and colleagues who are collaborative, supportive, and engaged
- Opportunity to grow professionally while working on a wide range of projects and initiatives
- A culture that values curiosity, excellence, and shared learning
Compensation
$76,000 - $84,500. In addition to a dynamic and creative culture, Olson Kundig provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes paid time off, paid holidays, health coverage, 401(k) with employer match, performance-based bonuses, profit sharing for eligible roles, a transportation subsidy, and more.
All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and must already possess long-term work authorization.
Skills Required
- 4-6 years of graphic design experience across print, digital, and web-based graphics
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field
- Strong design, typography, and layout skills
- Ability to organize complex content visually
- Experience with image and video editing and retouching
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and WordPress
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment
- Interest in architecture, design, and the built environment
- Self-driven, adaptable, and solutions-focused approach
- Ability to collaborate, take direction, and incorporate feedback
- Experience in architecture, engineering, and construction or a related design field
- Familiarity with OpenAsset or similar digital asset management systems
- Experience with print vendors and production processes
What We Do
Now in its sixth decade of practice, Olson Kundig is a collaborative design practice led by 13 principal/owners whose work includes cultural and museum projects, exhibition design, commercial and mixed-use design (including wineries and sports facilities), private and multi-family residential, hospitality projects, places of worship, interior design, product design and landscape design. With deep roots in the Pacific Northwest, the firm and its team of over 350 work with clients around the world. The firm began its creative existence in 1966 with the architect Jim Olson, whose work at that time centered on explorations of the relationship between dwellings and the landscapes in which they inhabit. Olson started the firm based on the essential ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture, histories, and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. Among the firm’s accolades are the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects), national and regional design awards from the American Institute of Architects, Jim Olson’s 2007 Seattle Medal of Honor and Tom Kundig’s National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt and his Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Books on the firm’s work include Tom Kundig: Working Title (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020); Jim Olson: Building • Nature • Art (Thames & Hudson, 2018); Tom Kundig: Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015); Jim Olson: Art and Architecture (August Editions, 2013); Tom Kundig: Houses 2 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011); Jim Olson Houses (The Monacelli Press, 2009); and Tom Kundig: Houses (Princeton Architectural Press, originally published in 2006 and re-released in 2021).
