Visual Communications Designer

Strakes, Roberts & Bauer; Bel Air (MD); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Full benefits package

401(k) matching

PTO and holidays

Hybrid work schedule

Small high-trust team

60+ years of client relationships

Job summary

SR&B Advertising in Bel Air, MD sits at the heart of our creative team, shaping brand systems, websites, landing pages, social and print assets for national, regional, and local brands. You’ll own design from concept to production, collaborate with our Creative Director and account leads, and contribute to strategy, performance, and client outcomes in a fast, collaborative, sometimes irreverent culture.

Join a small, dynamic team with room to grow, where designers are partners and feedback is

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Visual Arts, or a related field.
• 3+ years of graphic design experience, ideally in an agency or in-house marketing environment.
• Strong working proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite — Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Familiarity with Figma for web and UI design.
• Strong portfolio showing range across digital and print.
• Comfort learning and adapting to new software, platforms, and AI-assisted tools.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to receive, process, and incorporate direct feedback.

Responsibilities

• Design across digital, print, and experiential channels including social graphics, email, ads, direct mail, sales collateral, and presentations.
• Extend and evolve existing client brand systems into fresh, on-brand executions.
• Own recurring monthly production for key accounts, including automotive.
• Design websites, landing pages, and email templates with UX and conversion in mind.
• Collaborate on wireframes, prototypes, and iterations based on performance data.
• Prepare and hand off files for development, print vendors, and media placements.

Skills

Brand design

Layout and typography

UX understanding

Project ownership

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Figma

Job description

SR&B Advertising | Bel Air, MD | Hybrid | Full-Time
SR&B is a performance-driven growth marketing agency in Bel Air, Maryland with more than 60 years of building brands that actually move the needle. We’re independent, family-run, and unapologetic about doing the work — award-winning creative across digital, traditional, and experiential channels, backed by insight-first strategy and a 94% client retention rate that says the model works.

We’re a small team that punches well above its weight. If you want to help shape what happens next here — not just fill a chair — keep reading.

The Role

We’re looking for a Visual Communications Designer to sit at the heart of our creative team. You’ll design across the full stack of what an agency ships — brand systems, websites and landing pages, social, email, print collateral, sales tools, presentations, and campaign assets — for a mix of national, regional, and local brands.

This isn’t a backfill. We’re leveling up. You’ll work directly with our Creative Director and our Account leads, and you’ll have real room to build, propose, and influence how work gets made — not just execute a ticket someone else scoped. If you want to grow with a team that treats designers like partners, this is that seat.

• The kind of designer who reads a brief, quietly opens three tools no one asked for, and figures it out.
• Equally comfortable in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign — and just as at home in Figma laying out a landing page.
• Genuinely curious about how a design actually performs once it hits the world — not just how it looks in the mockup.
• Someone who says “I can do that” first and figures out the how second — and delivers on it.
• Appreciative of honest feedback. Stay confident while also open and curious. A good sense of humor will come in handy as well!
• Thick-skinned about feedback. You know good creative gets better when smart people push on it, and you’d rather hear it straight than pretty.
• Digital-native, but you still respect the craft — kerning, hierarchy, grid, color, and the discipline it takes to make print land right.
• A builder, not a ticket-taker. You have opinions on brand, on UX, on how a page should flow — and you’re not shy about sharing them.
• The person who thrives in a fast, candid, sometimes irreverent team where the work is serious but the people aren’t always. (If you’re not having fun, maybe you’re doing it wrong… just sayin’!)
• Reliable when it counts — auto-client production month-in and month-out, big report layouts on deadline, presentations that have to look sharp for a client meeting tomorrow.

What You’ll Do

Brand & Visual Design

• Design across digital, print, and experiential channels — social graphics, email, ads, direct mail, sales collateral, annual reports, presentations, event and environmental pieces.
• Extend and evolve existing client brand systems into fresh, on-brand executions that stay cohesive with their visual identity.
• Own recurring monthly production for our key accounts (including automotive) — the kind of work where efficiency, templating, and variable-data tooling actually matter.

Digital & Web

• Design websites, landing pages, and email templates with a real point of view on UX, user flow, and conversion — not just how the page looks.
• Partner with the team on wireframing, prototyping, and iterating on digital experiences based on performance data.
• Prep and hand off files cleanly for development, print vendors, and media placements.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our Creative Director, Account leads, and strategists to turn briefs into work worth signing off on.
• Participate in client presentations — walk clients through concepts, respond to feedback on the fly, and defend the choices worth defending.
• Contribute to bigger-picture creative and brand conversations. If you see a better way, we want to hear it.
• Stay current on design trends, tools, platforms, and best practices — and bring the good ones into how we work.
• Adopt and experiment with AI-assisted design tools where they actually make the work better or faster.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Visual Arts, or a related field. Just wow us — we care more about the work than the diploma.
• 3+ years of graphic design experience, ideally in an agency or in-house marketing environment.
• Strong working proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite — Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Familiarity with Figma (or comparable tool like Sketch) for web and UI design.
• Strong portfolio showing range across digital and print — real client work preferred over spec pieces.
• Comfort learning and adapting to new software, platforms, and AI-assisted tools as our stack evolves.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to receive, process, and incorporate direct feedback.

Preferred (Not Required — But Definitely a Plus)

• Copywriting instincts or interest — headlines, subheads, short-form campaign copy, brand voice.
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS or front-end fundamentals for hands-off collaboration with developers.
• Experience with variable-data design (e.g., Adobe data merge) for scaled monthly production.
• Motion, video editing, or animation basics.

Key Skills & Abilities

• Visual Communication: Translates ideas and strategy into visuals that land clearly and effectively — not just look nice.
• Technical Craft: Strong fundamentals in layout, typography, hierarchy, and color theory across mediums.
• Digital Fluency: Comfortable designing for web, mobile, and email with a working understanding of user flow.
• Project Ownership: Manages multiple projects at once, keeps quality high, and hits deadlines without needing to be chased.
• Collaboration: Works well with creative and account teams, brings ideas to the table, and makes the room better.
• Adaptability: Adjusts to client feedback, shifting priorities, and evolving briefs without losing the plot.
• Self-Direction: Figures things out. Reads the brief. Opens the tool. Ships the work. Asks smart questions when needed.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience, with performance-based bonus opportunity.
• Full benefits package — health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company matching.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• Hybrid work schedule — flexibility built around real collaboration, not face-time-for-face-time’s-sake.
• A seat on a small, high-trust team where your work is seen, your opinions land, and your growth is a real conversation, not a form.
• 60+ years of client relationships to design for — with the freedom of an independent, family-run shop.