Designer, Brand and New Business

**LOCATION:  NYC, New York or Durham, NC

The Role**

As Senior Designer, Brand & New Business, you will help McKinney tell its story through compelling visual design.

Your primary focus will be new business, partnering with Marketing & New Business and agency leadership to develop pitch presentations that bring our thinking, ideas and capabilities to life. You will take complex, often still-evolving information and transform it into clear, memorable and beautifully designed visual stories.

While pitch work will be the center of the role, your impact will extend beyond the pitch deck. You will also help visualize how McKinney talks about its work, capabilities, culture and point of view; contributing to credentials, case studies, capability stories, agency presentations and other high-visibility communications.

This is a highly hands-on role for an experienced designer who combines strong craft with good judgment. You are comfortable moving quickly, collaborating with senior leaders and creative teams, navigating ambiguity, and delivering excellent work in the high-pressure environment of new business.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and develop new business pitch presentations, credentials, capabilities presentations, RFP materials and other business-development communications.
• Partner closely with New Business, Creative, Strategy and agency leadership to translate ideas, strategy and information into clear and compelling visual narratives.
• Think beyond individual slides to help determine how a story should flow visually, including hierarchy, pacing, information design and narrative structure.
• Create original design elements including diagrams, information graphics, data visualizations, iconography and other visual frameworks that simplify complicated ideas.
• Develop visual concepts and approaches that help important pitches feel distinctive while remaining consistent with McKinney's brand.
• Contribute design support to broader McKinney storytelling, including agency credentials, case studies, capability materials, thought leadership, awards and select agency communications.
• Help visualize emerging agency capabilities and offerings when the story or visual expression is still being defined.
• Develop and maintain presentation templates, reusable design systems and visual assets that improve the quality and efficiency of new business work.
• Work within McKinney's established visual identity while finding fresh ways to bring individual stories and ideas to life.
• Collaborate with creative leadership, responding quickly and thoughtfully to feedback throughout the pitch-development process.
• Manage multiple projects, priorities and changing deadlines while maintaining exceptional attention to craft and detail.
• Explore emerging design and AI-enabled visualization tools that can improve the quality, speed and possibilities of our storytelling.