Location: 4th St and Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20565 , United States
Website: nga.gov
Positiion-Type: Full-Time
Start Date: 2/20/26 or so

Salary: The salary range is $102,415 to – $133,142 per year.

Benefits:

• This is a private-funded position which does not confer competitive federal status of a federal government employee. However, the position is eligible for the federal government employee benefits package. Learn more about federal benefits.

Overview:

The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Nearly four million people come through our doors each year—with millions more online—making us one of the most visited art museums in the world. Our renowned collection includes nearly 160,000 works of art, from the ancient world to today. Admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free. 

Responsibilities:

In this role, you’ll

• Ensures that all creative projects reflect a high standard of design principles, brand precision, and technical standards.
• Creates and executes innovative campaigns, driving brand recognition and impact, to ensure visitor engagement, aligning with the museum’s mission.
• Collaborates as part of the creative team and develops working partnerships across the museum.

Requirements:

Conditions of employment:

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.

Your resume serves as the basis for qualification determinations and must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable) as it relates to this job opportunity. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Your resume must include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week.

Education:

• Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study — commercial art, fine arts, art history, industrial design, architecture, drafting, interior design, photography, visual communication, or other fields related to the position. Some positions may also require subject-matter knowledge of medicine, science, or technical equipment.
• Advanced training in a vocational school, technical institute, or art institute above the high school level in one of the fields listed above is creditable as general experience on a month-for-month basis.

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Experience:

General Experience (for GS-5 positions): Experience that demonstrated the skills and creativity needed to use the tools or equipment associated with the work. Because talent and creative ability are vital to successful work performance, samples of work or other suitable evidence of technical competence may be required. Unpaid experience that is pertinent should be credited based upon its relevance to the work of the particular position to be filled. To be qualifying, the work must have involved visual communication of information or the application of the principles of artistic design.

Specialized Experience (for positions above GS-5): Experience in the actual type of work for which application is made. Unpaid experience is creditable, provided the work done was of a quality level and demonstrated the ability required for the position. This includes planning the preparation and use of photographs, illustrations, drawings, and other art work, charts, diagrams, dioramas, maps, slides, overlays, and other kinds of visual material for use in communicating information through visual means.

Specialized Experience: For this position, specialized experience is at least one year of experience, equivalent in responsibility to the GS-11 level in the Federal service, independently performing graphic design print and digital materials for a museum or cultural institution. 

To see more information about Visual Information Specialist (Senior Brand Designer) role, check out this application.

To Apply:
If you wish to learn more about the role, check out the full application here. For questions, please contact point of contact n-wood@nga.gov for questions about the application.

When you are ready to apply, check out this link.