Integrated Designer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Business Unit:

Presentations And Graphics

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Overview

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

Scope

Houlihan Lokey's Presentations Studio is seeking a full time Integrated Designer to join our team in Chicago and serve as an integral team member in producing high quality digital reports, corporate decks, investment banking pitchbooks, PowerPoint templates, infographics and formatting general documents/graphics. The Integrated Designer will create designs across a range of formats using mostly Microsoft PowerPoint as well as Adobe Creative Cloud - Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.

This is a hybrid working role based in Chicago reporting into the Creative Lead based in London. Adherence to company policies, punctuality, and effective communication are essential. Regular updates and proactive communication will be expected to ensure alignment, and guidance will be provided as needed.

You should be able to display a creative and wide-ranging design portfolio.

Responsibilities

As an Integrated Designer, you will:-

• Work on internal, external, event related, company/client branded ad-hoc projects
• Create digital and print designs from their brief to completion
• Manage print production with internal reprographics team
• Design and execute seasonal marketing reports, pitchbooks, corporate decks, event presentations and other similar presentation design or document formatting requests in PowerPoint
• Design print collateral (one-pagers, brochures, booklets, invitations, signage, and banners)
• Design/format event collaterals such as information walls, agenda, itinerary
• Create/Format company/client branded general graphics (charts, graphs, tables, icons, diagrams)
• Create visual storytelling pieces such as data visualization and infographics
• Perform photo research and resizing
• Editing imagery to fit the purpose and scaling using Photoshop
• Create fully functional client branded PowerPoint templates
• Create mood boards to communicate early visual ideas and themes
• Design or recreate highly detailed and complex maps (shale, oil, pipelines)
• Format Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents
• Build and style outlook emailing templates or email banners
• Be present in the office for engagement with internal business partners
• Attend creative brief meetings with internal business partners and external clients
• Track Studio mailbox and respond emails received during local working hours

Key Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic creative team member with:

• 5+ years of experience as a Graphic Designer, Presentations Designer or similar creative role
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite
• Good knowledge of Word, Excel (non-technical), and Adobe Acrobat Pro
• A strong understanding of design for both print and digital
• Strong conceptual skills, knowledge and experience designing page layouts, infographics, financial charts, tables, and graphs
• Expertise in taking ideas and thinking creatively to make professional, aesthetically pleasing design works while maintaining company identity standards
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced work environment
• Ability to manage several projects at once and deliver within agreed timelines
• Ability to work well under pressure, make quick sound decisions and use your experience to anticipate problems and challenges before they happen
• Ability to work independently but also collaboratively as a team player and able to integrate with a diverse team when required
• Ability to work with a job ticketing system and a shared mailbox
• A keen eye to proactively monitor output quality, accuracy and consistency
• Professional written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Design, Communications, Marketing, Business or related field

Compensation and Benefits

Houlihan Lokey is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive total compensation package, which may include other components such as discretionary incentive compensation. The firm's good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible salary range for this role at the time of posting is:

$65,000 - $75,000

Actual salary at the time of hire may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant qualifications, skills, and experience and the location where this position may be filled.

Houlihan Lokey provides a competitive benefits package. Our current benefits offerings can be found here:

2026 Benefits

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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