This is a unique opportunity to help introduce the next chapter of B&D’s brand. We’re looking for a hands-on creative leader who will personally produce exceptional design while establishing the creative vision, standards, and systems needed to bring our evolving identity to life and strengthen the quality and consistency of creative work throughout the organization.
Open to candidates based in Washington, DC or Chicago, IL, with the ability to work on a hybrid basis.
Brailsford & Dunlavey (B&D) is a national planning, development, and program management advisory firm dedicated to bringing community to life through the places where people live, learn, work, and play. B&D partners with institutions, municipalities, and organizations to shape and deliver complex real estate and capital projects, providing strategic insight and end-to-end advisory services across the full project lifecycle.
For more than 30 years, B&D has helped clients translate bold visions into actionable plans and successful outcomes, with particular depth in higher education, K–12, public sector, and sports and entertainment environments. B&D recently joined forces with Project Management Advisors (PMA), bringing together two nationally recognized leaders in program management and real estate advisory services and expanding the capabilities we offer our clients.
This Creative Director will own the visual expression of our brand and help define creative excellence across the firm. As B&D enters its next chapter following a significant merger, this role will help translate our refreshed brand vision into a compelling, cohesive reality, and then take it further by building the systems, standards, tools, and creative practices that enable the brand to take hold across the organization and evolve over time.
This is a highly visible role with influence across external brand building, employer brand, internal communications, industry and practice group marketing, and business development enablement. The Creative Director will help transform complex ideas, research, and business insights into clear, compelling visual communications that differentiate B&D and support the firm's continued growth
The role begins as a one-person creative function with no direct reports, making it ideal for someone who is equally energized by setting direction and by doing the work. Over time, this person will help define how the creative function should scale with the business.
What You'll Do
What makes the ideal candidate?
Impactful Mission
Be part of meaningful work that helps shape the places where people live, learn, work, and play.
Learning & Growth
We invest in mentorship, leadership development, and continuous learning at every stage of your career.
Strong Culture
Entrepreneurial thinking, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, integrity, and excellence drive how we work.
Robust Benefits
Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, professional development support, paid time off, and more.
A portfolio is required for consideration. Please include a link to your online portfolio with your application so we can see your creative work.
Our application process also requests a resume and an optional (highly recommended) cover letter. We look forward to getting to know you!
This role's target base annual salary range is currently $140,000-170,000. Pay scales are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors unique to each candidate, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, relevant education, experience, certifications, candidate abilities, and pay relative to other team members.
The company benefits listed above are a summary of the benefits. Specific details, availability, and eligibility requirements apply in accordance with company policies.
Brailsford & Dunlavey, Inc. is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Brailsford & Dunlavey, Inc. participates in E-Verify.
Brailsford & Dunlavey is a program management firm with in-house planning capabilities.
Our purpose is to inspire and empower organizations to maximize the value of investments that advance communities.
As catalysts for building community, we maximize value and mitigate risk for our clients every step of the way. We take an idea, make it a viable project, and manage it through ribbon cutting and into operation.
B&D recently joined forces with Project Management Advisors, bringing together two nationally recognized leaders in program management and real estate advisory services. Together, the combined firm offers expanded capabilities across industries and throughout the full project lifecycle, from early-stage strategy and planning through execution and beyond.
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