Senior Graphic Designer

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid on-site, with approximately 10%+ travel supporting industry events, executive engagements, and strategic marketing initiatives)

Position Type: Contractor
Clearance Requirement: U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance

About NODA AI

NODA AI is a Veteran-owned, venture-backed technology company that is transforming how unmanned systems collaborate in complex, mission-critical environments. We are developing next-generation solutions that enable the autonomous orchestration of heterogeneous unmanned systems across air, sea, land, and space with vital applications in the defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors.

Our marketing organization plays a critical role in shaping how our company, technology, and vision are understood across the defense ecosystem. We are building a function that moves with the business, aligning corporate strategy, business development priorities, product innovation, and market engagement to accelerate growth.

Joining NODA means working on meaningful technology that pushes the boundaries of autonomy alongside a team that thrives on innovation, rapid iteration, and collaboration.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Graphic Designer to serve as NODA's visual communications expert, enabling the marketing organization through creative excellence across print, digital, experiential, technical, and executive communications. You will partner closely with Integrated Marketing, Events & Field Marketing, Business Development, Product Management, Engineering, Video Production, and Executive Leadership to translate strategy, messaging, and technical capabilities into compelling visual experiences.

Your work will span the full creative lifecycle, from concept development and technical visualization through production and quality assurance. You will design across social media graphics and digital campaigns, executive presentations, trade show exhibits, technical illustrations, websites, environmental graphics, and customer-facing experiences.

Success in this role requires creative versatility, exceptional attention to detail, a bias toward action, and a deep understanding of the defense ecosystem. You will be equally comfortable producing polished executive communications, developing technical graphics from engineering concepts, editing photography, designing large-format event graphics, and creating digital experiences that strengthen NODA's brand and support business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop compelling visual communications that translate approved messaging, business objectives, and technical concepts into creative assets supporting marketing, communications, business development, recruiting, and customer engagement

• Design and produce high-quality creative assets across the full print and digital ecosystem, including marketing collateral, executive presentations, advertising, brochures, one-pagers, white papers, social media, email, digital campaigns, and environmental graphics

• Apply NODA's corporate brand standards, creative direction, and visual identity consistently across all marketing materials

• Design websites, landing pages, and digital experiences that support integrated marketing campaigns, customer engagement, and business development, applying user-centered design and accessibility best practices

• Ensure digital and print communications comply with Section 508 accessibility standards and government publishing requirements where applicable

• Translate complex technical concepts, including AI, autonomous systems, robotics, software platforms, command and control, and mission capabilities, into compelling visual communications for technical, executive, military, government, and industry audiences

• Organize complex information into clear visual narratives through technical illustrations, architecture diagrams, process flows, maps, iconography, infographics, and data visualizations

• Develop creative assets that accurately represent military organizations, Federal Civilian agencies, Defense technologies, and mission environments while maintaining technical credibility and visual authenticity

• Partner with Marketing, Business Development, Product, Engineering, Video Production, Recruiting, and Executive Leadership to translate ideas and business priorities into effective visual communications

• Manage creative projects from concept through final production, ensuring quality, accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery across print, digital, environmental, and experiential media

• Edit, retouch, composite, and color correct photography, leveraging official government imagery, technical asset