Graphic Designer

Are you a graphic designer with an interest in transportation, public communication, and wayfinding?  

Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, Inc. (Foursquare ITP) is looking for qualified, motivated, passionate, and diverse candidates for an entry or mid-level graphic designer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate is someone who can bring our projects to life through creative, detail-oriented, and compelling graphic design.  

About Foursquare ITP:  
Foursquare ITP is a transportation planning consulting firm guided by the mission to advance innovative, practical, equitable, and sustainable, transportation solutions. Over the last 20 years, we have grown to a 75+ person company with projects across North America. Our work broadly falls into the following areas: 

• Public Transit: Planning and implementation of public transit service. 

• Transportation Demand Management: Helping clients develop and operate programs that help people discover new transportation options like biking, walking, transit, and carpooling. 

• Multi-Modal Infrastructure: Planning and conceptual design for transit, pedestrian, and cycling infrastructure.  

• Analytics: Data science and visualization to support our transportation clients.  

• Advisory Services: Range of support services for our public-sector clients such as strategic planning, communication support, and workforce development. 

While this is a hybrid in-office/work from home position, the selected candidate should reside or be willing to relocate within commuting distance of our Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Atlanta, or Boston offices. This position requires two in-office days per week for the first 90 days and at least once a week thereafter.   

Position Overview 
This role calls for a creative, detail‑oriented graphic designer who is comfortable working across a wide range of formats and project types. You will collaborate with staff across all offices and service areas under the guidance of multiple project managers, including our graphic design and urban design teams. While most of your work will support client projects, you will also contribute to internal marketing and communication efforts as needed. 

Your Responsibilities Will Include:  

• Document Design, Layout, and Assembly: Creating compelling reports, posters, flyers, presentations, brochures, and other print and digital materials, including templates. Some of these are quite extensive and/or require creating multiple interdependent documents (e.g., diverse collateral for a transit outreach campaign). Also important is your knowledge of or ability to quickly learn best practices for accessible documents. 

• Visual Communication: Creating engaging infographics, diagrams, and illustrations that clearly tell their stories. These are often created for and applied throughout the documents above. 

• Branding and Identity Design: Developing branding and identities for transit projects or even entire public agencies, including developing promotional materials, prototypes/mockups, and templates for multiple platforms. This includes maintaining and applying the Foursquare ITP brand, such as creating promotional materials for company events and milestones. 

• Motion Graphics: Creating animations and videos of varying complexity to support transportation projects and outreach campaigns. This includes creating animated characters and scenes, working with recorded and stock footage, and working with other staff on scripting, pacing, and audio/narration. 

• Web Design: Creating prototypes/mockups of webpages and websites, especially for transit outreach campaigns. This includes working with other staff to integrate dynamic elements such as surveys and GIS maps. UI/UX and HTML knowledge is a plus – more important is a familiarity with accessibility best practices. 

• Wayfinding: Developing scenario, route, and system maps, transit route profiles and schedules, bus stop signs, and other wayfinding elements. This includes developing templates, processes, and data management methods for creating, outputting, and reviewing large volumes of signage, such as hundreds of bus stop signs for a transit network redesign. A familiarity with or ability to quickly learn best practices for wayfinding accessibility, assembly, and materials (e.g., sensory alternatives to visual wayfinding, pylon and panel design, signage mounting strategies, and integrating wayfinding into transit infrastructure like shelters and lampposts) is a plus. 

​Required Qualifications and Skills  
The selected candidate must have:   

• Graphic Design Requirements:  
  • Bachelor degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts, or related field. In lieu of a graphic design-related Bachelor degree, we will also consider candidates with a minimum of one year of relevant design experience. Three plus years of work experience preferred.  
  • Strong grasp of graphic design principles, especially in developing and applying coherent information hierarchies, consistent brands and identities, and accessibility best practices.  
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex detail-oriented design tasks with extensive QA/QC needs, such as overseeing the production of lengthy documents with multiple contributors, diverse collateral for outreach campaigns, and large batches of signage or other wayfinding. 
  • Passion for multi-modal transportation and an interest in growing your experience in the field.  
  • Ability to manage your workload and effectively communicate your progress and capacity with project managers and team members, with demonstrated experience managing, coordinating, and collaborating with multiple staff on complex design projects. This includes working with project managers and other staff to establish design identities/directions and ensure the most efficient design practices are employed, since other staff may not have the same design knowledge as you. 
• Software Knowledge:  
  • Advanced capabilities in InDesign and Illustrator, with demonstrated experience using styles, templates, and tools/processes to manage long, complex, and large quantities of documents. Acrobat knowledge (especially its document assembly and accessibility tools) is also required. 
  • Experience with animation, video/photo editing, mockup/prototyping, and web design tools such as Figma, Balsamiq, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Dreamweaver, or ArcGIS Hubs. 
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and some knowledge of ArcGIS Pro. Not only will you create document templates in PowerPoint and Word, you will often improve and redesign maps, infographics, and charts that began life in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and GIS. 

Compensation  
Foursquare ITP is committed to pay transparency. Compensation is based strictly on education and relevant work experience. The salary for this position starts at $67,100 and can be as much as $88,000 depending on experience.   

Benefits that go beyond the basics 
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:   

• 100% company-paid health insurance (employee) + dependent subsidy   

• Liberal work-from-home flexibility   

• 401(k) with company match   

• Generous vacation and paid holidays   

• Paid industry memberships and conference attendance   

• Company-funded HSA and FSA options   

• Professional and management training programs   

• Transit subsidy, paid cell phone plan, and performance bonuses   

• Annual company retreats, family-friendly events, and more   

Discover how we invest in our people—through both our Employee Value Proposition and our robust benefits package—here.   

Foursquare ITP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.