Graphic Designer
$50k - $125k/yr+ Discretionary bonus + Equity awards
Senior
Bachelor's
McLean, VA, USA
In Person
Art, Graphics & AnimationGraphic Design
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Marketing, or a directly related creative discipline.
- A minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in graphic design, brand design, or visual communication within an agency, in-house creative team, or related environment.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, with proficiency in Figma, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.
- Demonstrated command of typography, layout, composition, color, visual hierarchy, and brand systems, with the ability to thoughtfully apply and extend established brand identities across channels.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and production skills, with experience working across stakeholders and vendors and preparing production-ready creative for digital, print, presentation, event, and experiential applications.
- Written and spoken fluency in English.
- A robust professional portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design execution for corporate events, print mediums, interactive digital ecosystems, and complex brand identity systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute polished, production-ready creative across multi-channel campaigns, including digital, print, presentations, experiential activations, and other marketing initiatives.
- Create event and experiential design for conferences, customer engagements, field events, and other brand experiences across physical and digital environments.
- Develop compelling executive storytelling materials and presentations that translate complex technology and business concepts into clear, engaging visual narratives.
- Apply and extend Appian’s global brand system across diverse formats and touchpoints, maintaining consistency while identifying thoughtful opportunities to evolve the visual expression.
- Partner with Creative leadership, Marketing, Product Marketing, Events, and other stakeholders to translate business objectives and creative briefs into effective visual solutions.
- Collaborate with external creative agencies and production vendors to extend creative concepts and ensure consistent, high-quality execution.
- Prepare production-ready files and manage design specifications to ensure high-quality execution across vendors, platforms, and media channels.
Desired Qualifications
- Prior experience executing brand design inside a complex B2B, enterprise software, SaaS, or high-growth technology environment.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Google Slides, with experience across design and production workflow, alongside a baseline understanding of motion graphics or video animation principles.
- Experience collaborating with distributed teams, agencies, or stakeholders across regions.
- Experience or interest in using AI-enabled creative tools to support concept development, streamline workflows, and improve creative efficiency.
- Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow.
About the company
Appian builds software that banks, insurers, government agencies and other heavily regulated organizations use to automate complex work, such as onboarding clients, settling claims and reviewing grant applications. In 2001, it built Army Knowledge Online, a web portal for US Army personnel that was then considered the world's largest intranet. Customers' developers build apps by connecting visual building blocks instead of writing much code, while a data fabric links records across their existing systems without migrating them and AI agents read documents and handle routine steps. Customers pay subscription fees, mostly for software that Appian runs in its own cloud. Appian was founded in 1999 and is based in McLean, Virginia.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tysons, Virginia
Founded
1999
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Demand is beating forecasts: cloud subscription sales rose 23% in the June 2026 quarter, and Appian raised its 2026 outlook.
- Stock grants outpaced its top rival's: Appian shares rose 13% from January to October 2026, while Pegasystems fell 40%.
- AI is lifting spending: nearly 40% of Appian customers had bought its pricier AI-inclusive license tiers by May 2026.
What critics are saying
- Profit is still thin: Appian earned just $1.2 million in 2025 and lost $11.8 million in the June 2026 quarter.
- Its $2 billion win is on hold: Virginia's top court backed a new trial against rival Pegasystems in January 2026.
- Expect office work most days: 39 of Appian's 79 headquarters job posts require four or five days a week.
What makes Appian unique
- Its founders still run it: all four 1999 co-founders hold top jobs, including CEO Matt Calkins and CTO Michael Beckley.
- Washington is a quarter of its business: US federal agencies supplied 25.3% of 2025 revenue, up from 21.3% in 2023.
- Many staff build apps for clients: Appian's own consultants earned 22% of revenue in the June 2026 quarter.
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Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- Comprehensive Global Wellness Program
- Fully-covered Global Milk Stork Benefit
- Global Wellness Reimbursement
- Quarterly Awards and Recognition
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 401(k) or Pension Plans with Employer Matching
- Company Paid Life Insurance and Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- Global Parental Leave
- Charitable Giving Program
- Paid Time-Off and Paid Holidays