• Job Description

  Req#: R12323

  Posting Title

  Graphic Design Lead

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  Location

  CO - Boulder

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  Position Type

  Regular

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  Hours Per Week

  40

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  Working at NREL

  From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.

  NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.

  Our planet needs us! Learn about NREL’s critical objectives, and see how NREL is focused on saving the planet.

  Note: Research suggests that potential job seekers may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage anyone who is interested in this opportunity to apply. We seek dedicated people who believe they have the skills and ambition to succeed at NREL to apply for this role.

  Job Description

  NREL’s Communications Office is seeking a visual designer whose contemporary visual language and technical orientation will advance ideas both functionally and emotionally. We are looking for a highly motivated, curious designer who will create meaningful experiences and sustain business growth while communicating our research to the world. This position will primarily serve as Design Lead for several programs related to NREL’s Wind research, and provide additional design support to other technologies, programs areas, and the Communications Office Corporate team.

  Our ideal candidate is an integrative thinker: someone who can constructively balance the tension of opposing ideas, able to think creatively with engineers, researchers, and scientists while implementing and communicating business strategy to leadership and stakeholders. You are a team player able to ideate, co-create, delegate, connect the dots, and effectively communicate the vision.

  We take enormous pride in our talented staff, world-class research facilities, benefits, and results that positively impact our local, national, and global communities. Join the NREL Design Team as we tackle the most complex energy challenges of our time.

  NREL's Wind research is primarily conducted at the Flatirons Campus. On-site work at the Flatirons Campus is expected 1-2 days per week. Beyond this expectation, this role is highly flexible and allows for work-from-home/hybrid work environments.

  General responsibilities include:

  • Crafting visual elements that can be extensible across a wide range of media and project types, including brand identities, communication campaigns, social media posts, multipage documents, presentations, fact sheets, brochures, and exhibits.
  • Creating clear and concise story-driven data visualizations in support of projects as required.
  • Collaborating with clients to understand their complete business needs, with a focus on providing the most impactful and meaningful solutions.
  • Working with web and print design style guides and corporate identity standards.
  • Self-manage schedules and tasks; coordinate and negotiate multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
  • Art direct and project manage the output of other design team members and contractors.
  • Track and bill time to clients.
  • Retrieve and archive files for completed graphics projects.
  • Learning, iterating, and evolving with assigned technology/program/client
  • Gathering and surfacing insights that shape solutions and innovations
  • Scoping project outlines and manage dependencies
  • Acting as the voice of the customer when required
  • Prototyping flows and experiences

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  Basic Qualifications

  Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 3 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant JD or equivalent relevant education/experience. Complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts in the field. General knowledge of other related disciplines. Considerable knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to specific field. Strong leadership, project management and problem solving skills. Ability to use various computer software programs.

  * Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

  Additional Required Qualifications

  Experience in the following areas will be required for a candidate to excel in this role:

  • Collaborating with clients to understand their complete business needs, with a focus on providing the most impactful and meaningful solutions
  • Detailed-oriented, budget steward, and advanced written and verbal communication skill at multiple levels (peers, team, clients)
  • Experience and passion for creating human-centered experiences that delight end users and that solve business problems
  • You bring a toolkit of methods, processes, and approaches that you've built up over time and experience
  • Natural intellectual curiosity and problem-solving drive
  • Demonstrated ability to build and manage successful multi-disciplinary teams (in a non-supervisory fashion), as well as manage projects end-to-end from a budgetary and client relationship perspective
  • Willingness to engage with stakeholders and help them to influence decisions
  • A desire to contribute to the broader success of the Communications Office by playing a mentoring and coaching role to other team members
  • You will have a tertiary interest in Design thinking, UX, interaction design, service design, environmental design, or other contemporary design disciplines
  • Learning, iterating, and evolving with assigned technology/program/client
  • Gathering and surfacing insights that shape solutions and innovations
  • Prototyping flows and experiences
  • Ability to act as the voice of the customer
  • Scoping project outlines and manage dependencies
  • Eager to make change happen, desire to seize opportunities as they arise, and drive toward goals with energy and enthusiasm
  • Desire to align, fully immerse yourself, and become an expert in a particular body of work/technology area(s)
  • Must be able to be on-site at the Flatirons Campus 2 days/week

  Preferred Qualifications

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  Job Application Submission Window

  The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.

  Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)

  Job Profile: Professional III / Annual Salary Range: $73,200 - $120,800

  NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

  Benefits Summary

  Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short*- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits*; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement*. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.

  * Based on eligibility rules

  Drug Free Workplace

  NREL is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.

  If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.

  Submission Guidelines

  Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.

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  EEO Policy

  NREL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic partner status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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• About the company

  155855 The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, located in Golden, Colorado, specializes in renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development.

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