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Your impact
A Jacobs Senior Graphic Designer is a proactive team player, excited and ready to engage on a multitude of projects, from concept to completion—from handouts and project sheets to complex visually‑compelling proposals and presentations, in a fast‑paced environment for our Buildings & Infrastructure Americas team. Must be highly creative and innovative, ready to conceptualize, design, and develop visually appealing graphics and content that will inform and engage the intended audience. Must possess proven design aptitude and advanced understanding of design process, principles, and production techniques.

Perfect professional skills: expert technical skills and expertise in developing and executing creative solutions using Adobe Creative Cloud applications (including, but not limited to InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop), as well as presentation software (including but not limited to Microsoft PowerPoint) to deliver those solutions in a variety of print and digital formats. Along with excellent communication skills, this individual will be flexible, dedicated, organized, collaborative, self‑motivated, and can work effectively in a fast paced, deadline‑driven environment.

Applicants must provide either a portfolio link or PDF samples of work that highlight your work in layout, graphics and presentation.

Prior Architectural/Engineering & Construction and/or Proposal and Sales experience a plus. Applicants must be prepared to flex their working hours as needed to align with peers in North America. Must have flexibility to work overtime hours and on weekends as needed, especially for deadline‑driven assignments.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Independently drive strategic graphic design solutions to support the production of winning complex proposals, sales materials, and presentations, including but not limited to long document layouts, PowerPoint presentations, storyboards, covers/dividers, marketing collateral/brochures, illustrations, interactive PDFs, ads, and digital media.

Leads interview visuals and presentations by working live to develop sketches and concepts.

Understands diverse perspectives and offers ideas to solve design problems and drive effective solutions.

Plans, conceptualizes, and designs compelling and impactful graphics while collaborating with proposal team members and technical staff to strengthen messaging and successfully sell Jacobs.

Knowledgeable of one or more markets and/or client groups within Jacobs; begin to develop relationships with account teams.

Conveys complex ideas with smart and concise graphic designs; develops complex concepts visually beyond bullet points.





Interpret and convert technical data and conceptual content into more accessible and visually appealing information.

Uses diverse perspectives to solve design problems and drive effective solutions.

Expert in software trends; acts as a resource for graphic design methods and tools, developing and implementing process improvements, tools improvements, and best practices.

Shares technical expertise with others and provides guidance and support; mentors junior staff to help grow their skills and advance their careers.

Coordinate and provide production and vendor support for submittals and interviews to instruct external vendors as needed on printing requirements.

Provides improvements in processes, productivity, and efficiency for our Creative Solutions team.

Proof work to ensure quality control.

Proven experience dealing with constantly evolving deadlines in an ever‑changing landscape; must be able to coordinate and collaborate with team members in remote locations, in different time zones.

Other Job Specifications & Expectations

Collaborative and engaging mindset; thrives in a detail‑focused, highly deadline‑driven, team‑oriented setting.

Displays highest level of creativity, with proactive, and creative work approaches; implements ideas, solves problems, and creates advanced, complex visual solutions to bring concepts to life.

Customer service‑oriented demeanor with a positive, collaborative, and energetic approach focused on deepening relationships with account teams.

Confidence and ability to drive concepts with team members, high level executives and decision makers.

Problem solver, critical thinking skills with a solution‑oriented approach.

Must have strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work directly with internal clients; ability to edit and proofread a plus.

Manages multiple, complex project assignments at a time, set priorities, manage time, and organize work according to best practices.

Flexibility to work extended hours and weekends when project deadlines require.

Motivation to continually self‑improve with a desire to learn new innovative tools, techniques and processes.

Sales Functions And Processes

Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external clients.

Translates project and client requirements into scope of work.

Identifies areas in proposals where graphics are better suited to tell a story.

Jacobs/Industry Acumen

Embraces our organizational core values, code of conduct, and culture of caring, safety and inclusion.





Compliance with corporate processes, procedures and protocols.

Here’s what you’ll need

Associate or bachelor’s degree in graphic design or related discipline from a four‑year College/University; work experience in A/E/C that matches the requirements of the position in lieu of degree.

Ideally, here’s what you’ll also have

Master’s degree a plus.

8-10 years professional graphic design experience; A/E/C and/or Sales experience a plus.

Expert skills in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat) and Microsoft PowerPoint; proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams); experience working with additional creative, visual, interactive, and multimedia tools a plus.

Expert knowledge of procedures and technical concepts required for role, including design aptitude to understand what constitutes good design, and a demonstrated ability to apply that knowledge using layout, typography, graphics, and images in order to produce highly effective visual communications.

Prior Architectural/Engineering & Construction and/or Proposal and Sales experience a plus.

Knowledge of ArcGIS plug‑in for Illustrator, SketchUp, Streetmix, and Interactive PDFs a plus.

High degree of experience in traditional (illustration, hand‑sketching) as well as digital design.

Familiarity with video editing, After Effects or other Adobe programs a plus.

Posted Salary Range
Minimum: $70,000.00

Upper: $100,000.00

The base salary range for this position is $70,000.00 to $100,000.00. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across Ontario, Canada locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

At Jacobs, we use AI‑driven recruitment to match top talent with opportunity—however, human connection and fairness remain at the heart of every hiring decision.

Jacobs welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request an accommodation, please select here.

We value collaboration and believe that in‑person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is significant to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.

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📌 Senior Graphic Designer (Quebec City)
🏢 Jacobs
📍 Quebec City