About Us

Sparks is a leading global brand experience agency, specializing in the design and execution of award-winning experiences that forge deep connections between brands and audiences. Recognized by Adweek as Experiential Agency of the Year, we bring a unique blend of strategic insight and execution excellence to every brand activation, corporate event, trade show exhibit, and immersive experience. Our commitment to creativity, innovation, and flawless execution drives us to craft impactful experiential marketing solutions that deepen relationships, inspire action, and build trust—all around the world.

Summary

Sparks is seeking a RFP Designer to join our RFP Management team and contribute to the creation of capability presentations and opportunity-specific proposals and live pitches. This role involves designing visually compelling decks and documents for RFP submissions, ensuring they meet Sparks' high standards and align with our brand identity. You will collaborate with a diverse team, including strategists and designers.

This position will support our Strategic RFP team. It is eligible to work a hybrid schedule, generally requiring work in-office and/or show-site 2-3 days per week. The ideal candidate will be based out of Philadelphia, PA or Ridgefield, CT.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Design visually engaging proposal decks, presentations, and documents for RFP submissions and capabilities decks including formatting, layout, typography, and visual hierarchy.

• Ensuring proposal materials and capability presentations align with Sparks’ high standards, brand standards, client expectations, consistency, and strategic messaging.

• In some cases, create a hybrid of client & Sparks branding according to our style guide, as well as adhere to client’s branding guidelines for fully-customized decks.

• Act as liaison between the marketing team and RFP team.

• Collaborating with Strategists, Creative & Art Directors, 3D and 2D designers and content writers to translate complex information into creative design elements such as infographics, charts, icons, etc.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Marketing, or a related field, or 2+ years of proposal design experience in an agency setting.

• Proven experience designing proposals, presentations, or similar client-facing materials.

• Proficiency in presentation tools like Google Slides, Figma and PowerPoint, as well as design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).

• Strong project and time management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines efficiently.

• Excellent attention to detail, organizational and multitasking abilities.

• Adaptability in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, especially when working on multiple responses with varying priorities and teams.

• Strong judgment and decision-making skills.

• Willingness to work outside traditional business hours when necessary to meet deadlines.

What We Offer

Freeman provides benefits that aim to empower our people and their families to thrive mentally, physically, and financially. These are a handful of the types of programs and benefits our full-time people may be eligible for. There may be some variances in specific benefits across regions.

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Paid Parental Leave

• Life, Accident and Disability

• Retirement with Company Match

• Paid Time Off

Diversity Commitment

At Freeman, our commitment to diversity and inclusion is helping us to create not only a great place to work, but also an environment where our employees, our customers and our communities around the world can reach their goals and connect with each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status and other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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