Agency-wide Requirements
All applicants must be:
- U.S. citizens (dual U.S. citizens also eligible)
- At least 18 years of age
- Willing to move to the Washington, DC area
- Able to complete security and medical evaluations
- Registered for the Selective Service
About the Job
As a Visual Media Designer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), you will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing, and producing visual solutions for a wide variety of products. You will create and publish products for print, video, and interactive that will be disseminated across CIA, the Intelligence Community, and the federal government. You will work as a member of a team focusing on one or more specialties, such as graphic design, publication design, motion graphics, video, and user interface (UI) and user experience (UX).
Specific duties for this position include:
- Designing corporate identity and collateral
- Designing brochures, publications, and campaigns
- Designing promotional material, exhibits and displays, and signage
- Engaging in UI and UX explorations and development for web and interactive products
- Engaging with developers and programmers to deliver and maintain websites on the internet or various intranets
- Crafting storylines and storyboards for motion and video products
- Conducting basic video production and post-production to tell a compelling story
- Ensuring appropriate application of style, typography, hierarchy, and pacing to products across multiple media
- Analyzing and translating customer requirements into actionable project objectives
- Managing time and deliverables within the scope of a production schedule
You will work with a team of visual media designers within a studio environment; however, there are occasional opportunities to deploy as a single dedicated support specialist serving the publishing needs of various CIA and Intelligence Community locations within the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Who You’ll Work With
At the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), we recognize our Nation’s strength comes from the diversity of its people. People from a broad range of backgrounds and viewpoints work at CIA, and our diverse teams are the reason we can keep our country safe.
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What You’ll Get
Our benefits support every aspect of a working professional’s life, including health and wellness, time off, family, finances, and continuing education. Our programs include highly sought-after government health benefits, flexible schedules, sick leave, and childcare. In some cases, we also offer sign-on incentives and cover moving expenses if you relocate.
As a CIA employee, you’ll also get the satisfaction of knowing your work is part of something bigger than yourself. Our work is driven by one mission: to keep our Nation safe. Every day is an opportunity to enhance U.S. national security.
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Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields or related studies:
- Graphic Design
- Visual Communication
- Multimedia Design and Production
- Or, at least six (6) years of work experience in a professional publishing environment may be substituted for academics
- Knowledge of the following:
- Graphic design
- UI and UX for interactive product development
- Video production techniques and applications
- Preparing files and documents for output, including vendors, printing, and digital outputs
- Strong verbal and written communications skills suitable to provide product demonstrations, document and explain project requirements, and create/develop/manage content for websites and publications
- Excellent interpersonal, time management, and creative skills to work effectively within professional creative team environments
- Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation
Desired Qualifications
- Background in graphic design and/or user interface and user experience design
- Strong business acumen
- Experience in publishing business environment
Additional Requirements
The following must be attached when you submit your interest form:
- A creative portfolio of two to three samples demonstrating a wide variety of design conceptualizations, to include campaign, identity, poster, publication, and packaging, as well as samples of videos, mobile & web UI/UX. All URLs should be written out (no links) to non-account based or password protected websites.