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:
Experience:
- Agency: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
