Graphic Designer

About Budget Signs

Budget Signs designs, fabricates, and installs interior and exterior signage — everything from yard signs and banners to lighted cabinet signs and channel letters. We don't do billboards. Growth comes from repeat customers and referrals, not advertising, so the quality and speed of our design work directly drives sales.

The role

We need a designer who can turn a customer's idea into an accurate, sellable mockup fast, and then turn that mockup into a production-ready file our shop can actually cut, print, or fabricate.

What you'll do

Create design concepts and customer-facing mockups for signage jobs (channel letters, illuminated cabinet signs, banners, vehicle/vessel wraps, yard signs, wayfinding) — often same-day, to support sales quotes
Convert approved concepts into production-ready vector files for the shop (cutting, routing, large-format printing)
Work directly with sales/estimating to scope what's visually and technically feasible before a quote goes out
Build dimensioned, to-scale layouts customers and installers can both read
Flag when a design may run into permitting or code issues (size, illumination, setback) before it gets to production
Keep a clean, reusable library of templates and past art files
Occasional marketing materials for Budget Signs itself (truck graphics, social/web assets)

What you need

Strong Adobe Illustrator skills (required); Photoshop useful
Comfortable prepping vector art for large-format print, vinyl cutting, and CNC routing — this is the part that separates a sign designer from a general graphic designer
Can produce accurate, to-scale layouts, not just “looks right”
Solid communication — you'll talk to customers and the sales team directly, not just take a brief and disappear
Can handle several small jobs at once under real deadlines
Portfolio required

Pay: $24.53 - $29.54 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 40.0 per week

Benefits:

401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off

Work Location: In person