Marketing Manager

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Quinn Evans is a nationally recognized architecture and design firm and recipient of the American Institute of Architects’ 2024 Firm Award. Our process is informed by the past to address today’s complex challenges and design our shared future. We are technical experts, caretakers, conveners, and listeners. We identify the solutions that best serve the community and the long-term life of a place.

We bring expertise in cultural and sustainable stewardship to every aspect of our practice and projects. Our projects encompass a variety of project types including public sites, museums, and visitor centers, civic, performing arts, educational, and hospitality, to multi‑family housing.

Team building is critical to our practice. Together, we create better work and more fulfilling professional lives. We do this through a culture that fosters constructive engagement leveraging a diversity of staff, practice, client communities, and points of view.

Be a part of a collaborative and diverse team that is designing ways for places and people to thrive today and tomorrow. Quinn Evans is one of the largest women‑owned design practices in the country. We take pride in our diverse team and workplace culture. We emphasize leadership, innovation, teamwork, and professional development. We offer competitive compensation, a supportive hybrid work environment, and opportunity to make a difference through work on unique and impactful projects.

Come be part of a dynamic and integrated centralized‑marketing team that drives the success of a nationally recognized design firm that was named the AIA Firm Award winner in 2024. The Marketing Manager provides marketing and BD leadership and direction and reports directly to the CMO. This includes providing oversight and guidance to develop and sustain a diverse, regional, and practice‑driven presence, visibility, and client‑ and project‑based pursuit strategies.

The role regularly engages all office locations.

Engage with firm‑wide and regional office leaders, strategists, and professional staff as part of the seller‑doer business model. In this role, you will nurture a proactive culture of business development for practice and regional office positioning.

• Planning & Strategy. Devise and execute marketing strategies, goals, and corporate marketing program initiatives. Lead and direct client‑focused research and analysis and capture planning efforts.
• Team Building. Lead and cultivate relationship development across the firm. This includes both internally and externally, with clients and business partners through integrated marketing practices:
  • leadership in client/contact relationship management practices;
  • partnering with and coaching staff to develop winning proposals and client presentations; and
  • professional and community organizations to promote firm visibility and recognition.
• Positioning. Facilitate and guide early project identification and pre‑positioning activities, including relationship building, market intelligence and reconnaissance, capture planning, and win strategies to successfully win work. Plan, direct and participate in pursuits – across regional and national geographies – as required.
• Measurement & Verification. Provide regular reporting (data and key metrics) regarding opportunity status and performance, work pipeline and backlog, lead capture plans, and client development plans.
• Monitor. Ensure overall quality and performance of marketing and proposal efforts (see Marketing Activities below). Provide an informed perspective and marketing guidance as it relates to the regional and practice marketplaces and ensure the effective use of resources and their long‑term payback related to BD and marketing efforts.

Provide leadership within the marketing team, engage collaboratively with other marketing managers to meet the firm's needs, and participate in multifaceted responsibilities to promote the firm.

• Proposal Management. Provide high‑level guidance and oversight for effective pursuit teams to ensure quality and success. This includes developing…