Office Location: The ideal candidate can be located anywhere in the West Region of the United States
(Los Angeles, CA | Irvine, CA | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | Denver, CO | Chandler, AZ)
How Your Role Will Shape Our Success
The Proposal & Report Designer is responsible for designing clear, polished, and visually consistent proposals, reports, and client-facing documents. This role focuses on layout, typography, and visual structure - ensuring complex information is presented in a way that is professional, readable, and aligned with brand standards. Working closely with proposal teams, writers, and technical contributors, the Designer elevates document quality while supporting other design initiatives as capacity allows.
What Sets Us Apart?
Walker is 100% employee-owned! Join us and become part of a company where you have a direct stake in our success.
What makes this opportunity even more exciting is our true ownership program. At Walker, our equity-based model allows shareholders to directly benefit from the firm’s success, rather than a traditional ESOP that focuses only on stock appreciation. It’s a unique chance to grow with a company that values its people.
What You’ll Do
Proposal & Report Design
- Design and format proposals, reports, and presentation materials using InDesign and Microsoft Word.
- Apply strong layout principles, typography, and visual hierarchy to improve clarity and usability.
- Ensure documents meet either Walker or the client’s brand standards while remaining flexible to proposal-specific requirements.
- Prepare final, submission-ready files with attention to detail, consistency, and accuracy.
Collaboration with Proposal & Technical Teams
- Partner with proposal coordinators, writers, and subject matter experts to translate content into clean, effective layouts.
- Interpret written and technical content to determine appropriate visual structure and pacing.
- Support fast-paced proposal timelines while maintaining high design quality.
- Incorporate feedback efficiently without compromising overall document integrity.
Template Development & Document Systems
- Create and maintain proposal and report templates in InDesign and Word.
- Establish paragraph styles, character styles, table styles, and master pages for consistency and speed.
- Improve usability of templates for non-designers where appropriate.
- Help streamline document production through better structure and reusable components.
Brand Consistency & Quality Control
- Ensure all designed materials align with brand guidelines, typography standards, and visual tone.
- Review documents for layout issues, formatting errors, and visual inconsistencies.
- Maintain a high level of polish across all deliverables, even under tight deadlines.
Additional Design Support (as Bandwidth Allows)
- Assist with other design projects such as infographics, presentations, marketing collateral, or internal materials.
- Collaborate with the creative team to support broader initiatives when proposal/report workload permits.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 3 - 7 years of experience designing proposals, reports, or complex documents in a professional services or B2B environment.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (expertise in InDesign a plus) and Microsoft Word.
- Strong understanding of typography, graphic design, and document hierarchy.
- Experience working under deadline-driven workflows preferred.
- Familiarity with content management systems, editorial calendars, and collaboration tools (Asana, Monday, etc.).
Compensation & Benefits
At Walker Consultants, we are committed to maintaining fairness and equity in our pay practices. For this role, the estimated base salary range is $75,000 – $90,000 per year. The final salary offered may vary based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. We value open conversations about compensation and welcome the opportunity to discuss more about base salary and Walker’s total rewards philosophy during the recruiting process.
We offer a robust total compensation and rewards package designed to support our employees’ well-being, growth, and diverse needs, including:
- Annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity to purchase Walker stock – Walker is 100% employee-owned!
- Medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance
- Mental wellness benefits
- Health Savings Account with company contribution
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Spending Accounts
- 529 college savings plan
- A minimum of 3 weeks of Paid Time Off per year
- 9 paid holidays per year, including 3 paid floating holidays
- 5 days of bereavement leave and PTO Donation Bank to help during difficult times
- 100% compensation replacement during short-term disability leaves
- Paid parental leave that allows an additional week of paid time alongside short-term disability leave and/or applicable state paid leave programs
- Paid community involvement hours
- Tuition and licensure reimbursement and sponsorship of professional memberships
- Internal conferences and professional development opportunities
- Employee Resource Groups and Affinity Groups
Why Walker Consultants?
Over the past 60 years, Walker has become recognized as a leader in the parking industry and provides a wide range of engineering, planning, and architecture services to facilities of all kinds. Walker also provides Forensic, Restoration, Building Envelope, and Vertical Transportation Consulting Services, a fast-growing part of our business in the last 10 years.
Walker hires exceptional people to remain among the top-performing firms in the business. We reward our employees for their effective contributions, challenge them, and provide professional development opportunities and the autonomy needed to grow. As a learning organization, our senior experts routinely share their knowledge in a collaborative environment, ensuring that best practices are carried forward to the next generation of leadership.
Walker is proud to be an employee-owned firm with an open-book philosophy that highly values integrity, honesty, and fairness. We encourage new ideas and contributions. We work hard and have fun doing what we love. This is who we are.
Join Us!
We know that great talent comes in many forms. If you're excited about this role but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply! You might just be the right person for this role—or another opportunity on our team.
At Walker Consultants, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals of all abilities. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, or in the workplace, please let us know—we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.
Walker Consultants is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We invite all qualified applicants to apply and do not discriminate against individuals because of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or age.
