Overview of Position

Studio-MLA seeks a Marketing & Graphics Specialist with 5 years of professional experience to join our team in our Los Angeles office. As a key member of our marketing and new business team, the Marketing & Graphics Specialist collaborates closely with the Business Development Director, Principals, Project Managers, and President. In this fast-paced, deadline-driven role, you will work with firm leadership to create proposal materials and marketing collateral, coordinate the firm’s social media presence, assist in various writing and graphic design responsibilities, and support Studio-MLA’s overall communications goals. Our ideal candidate is engaged, positive, highly organized, detail oriented, graphically and visually skilled, adaptable, and eager to learn and teach.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

– Competitive RFP Process

•  Create proposals, qualifications packages, and presentations
• Monitor and review RFP activity across various sources
• Maintain CRM software with proposal and project data
• Assist in tracking success metrics (shortlist rate, win rate, etc.) using CRM database reporting
• Attend pre-proposal meetings and site walks
• Participate in Proposals / GoNoGo meetings (weekly)
• Keep project sheets, resumes, and bios current for proposals and website

– Marketing & Communications

•  Implement Marketing & Communications strategy directed by others
• Design booklets, boards, business cards, and other marketing collateral using renderings and graphics produced by others
• Help lead Marketing/Promo meeting (bi-weekly)
• Update the firm’s WordPress-based website with current content, including home page, project pages, people page, news page, etc.
• Capture marketing photography as needed
• Assist in preparation and writing of firm awards submissions, news page content, social media posts, and other communications
• Coordinate the firm’s newsletter, eblasts, and social media with senior staff
• Aid in public relations efforts with senior staff as needed
• Support in-office networking events in collaboration with administrative team
• Update and maintain consistency of the studio brand templates across letterhead, business cards, social media, and other marketing collateral templates

– Business Development Support

•  Collaborate with Executive Assistant to maintain BD/Promo Calendar
• Research for business development
• Attendance at business development/networking events and conferences (occasional evening and weekend hours)
• Brief team about upcoming local relevant events at weekly Staff meeting
• Develop and maintain relationships with marketing professionals and subconsultants

Required skills for a successful candidate:

• Minimum BA/BS degree, or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years’ professional experience in Marketing, Communications, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related field (Experience as a Landscape Architect/Designer is highly desirable)
• Advanced expertise in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and/or Canva, MS Office Suite, and CRM database management
• Proficiency in graphic design and layout, with a strong visual aesthetic
• Excellent creative & technical writing skills plus editing/proofreading capabilities
• Strong & growing understanding of the landscape architecture profession and A/E/C industry trends by following design news, social media, & publications
• Organized and self-motivated, with strong proposal process experience and a passion for results
• Ability to follow quality control standards easily and identify errors in own work
• Capacity to work under tight deadlines, communicating progress, coordinating, and executing several efforts simultaneously
• Enthusiasm for participating in business development events (occasional evening and weekend hours)

Benefits include:

• Employer paid employee Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life & Accidental Insurance
• PTO includes vacation, company holidays, bonus days, and sick, and other leave time
• 401K Safe Harbor Plan, Dependent Care, and 529 College Savings Plan, FSA Plan
• Professional Development and Professional Memberships support

Salary Range:  $80,000 – $95,000 commensurate with experience

Studio Culture

We are a woman-owned, minority-owned practice with a deep commitment to recruiting and retaining an outstanding and diverse team. The studio is a welcoming, collaborative, hands-on space where each of us is encouraged to create, investigate, and explore. Studio-MLA’s Los Angeles headquarters is a beautiful studio space in Boyle Heights with ample sunlight, access to an outdoor environment, in-studio events, and team outings. The firm has hybrid work environment and requires employees to be in the studio multiple days each week.

About the Firm

Studio-MLA is a 45-person design studio across two offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We integrate landscape architecture, urban design, and planning to create places that inspire human connection, unite communities, and restore environmental balance. “Advocacy by design” is a foundation of our practice – a powerful tool to catalyze ecological and social change with inclusivity and authenticity.

To Apply

Please email your cover letter, resume, and work samples to jobs@studio-mla.com.