About Raw Engine Media

Raw Engine Media is a full-service automotive marketing and production company built for the performance aftermarket. We create branded content, campaigns, and commercial work for brands that live and breathe horsepower — from tires and wheels to full vehicle builds. Our team is small, fast, and obsessive about craft. If you know the difference between a Flat Six and an LSX without Googling it, you'll fit right in.

The Role

We're looking for a seasoned Graphic Designer with serious automotive instincts — someone who's spent years designing for car brands, aftermarket parts companies, motorsports, or enthusiast media and can deliver agency-quality work without hand-holding. You'll work alongside our Creative Director and production team to design across digital, print, social, packaging, and broadcast deliverables for performance aftermarket clients.

This is not a junior role. You should be able to take a creative brief, interpret a brand system, and come back with polished, presentation-ready work.

What You'll Do

• Design print collateral, POP displays, and large-format graphics — trade show booths, banners, signage, packaging, and retail merchandising for automotive and aftermarket brands
• Create digital campaign assets across web, social, email, and display advertising
• Produce original vector illustration — technical product art, badging, apparel graphics, and custom artwork built clean in Illustrator
• Design logos, brand identities, and style guides from concept through final lockup
• Execute high-end photo manipulation and compositing, especially vehicle and product imagery — retouching, cutouts, environment swaps, and finished key art
• Prep flawless production-ready files for print vendors and large-format output: dielines, bleeds, color separation, and prepress
• Build pitch decks and client presentation materials that sell creative concepts
• Collaborate with photographers, videographers, and editors to maintain visual consistency across deliverables
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and hit deadlines in a fast-moving production environment

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BFA) in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional graphic design experience, with at least 3 years in the automotive, motorsports, powersports, or performance aftermarket industry
• A portfolio heavy in automotive work — wheels, tires, parts, builds, racing, or enthusiast brands
• Expert-level Adobe Creative Suite — Illustrator and Photoshop are your daily drivers; InDesign for layout and collateral
• Strong vector illustration ability — you can draw, not just arrange stock assets
• Proven logo and identity design work with real shipped examples
• Advanced photo retouching, compositing, and manipulation skills, especially vehicle imagery
• Deep print production knowledge: dielines, color separation, prepress, large-format and POP specs
• Strong typography, layout, and composition fundamentals — your work holds up at agency review standards
• Real automotive fluency: you understand car culture, enthusiast audiences, and what makes automotive design feel authentic vs. generic
• Self-direction: you ask the right questions up front, then execute without constant supervision
• Ability to take critique, iterate fast, and defend creative decisions with rationale

Nice to Have

• Motion graphics experience (After Effects, basic animation)
• 3D or rendering experience (Blender, Cinema 4D, KeyShot)
• Vehicle wrap and livery design experience
• Familiarity with trade show environments (SEMA, PRI)
• Video Editing

Pay: From $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Do you have Automotive Experience - if so, elaborate.
• Do you have experience launching new products for brands - elaborate?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Agency: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: In person