Specialist, Graphic Design

Arrow McLaren is McLaren Racing’s IndyCar team, located in Indianapolis at its new McLaren Racing Center headquarters on the northwest side of the city. By joining our team, you’ll be part of an exhilarating racing program that aims to set the standard for high performance in sport. Our values define what matters most to us:

Innovative – Respectful – Inclusive – Energetic – Brave

Every day, we want members of this team to come to work with a simple goal in mind: Build better race cars and develop better ways to go racing. Focus on the process, enjoy the process of continual improvement and the results will take care of themselves.

Purpose of the Role:

Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team is seeking a Specialist, Graphic Design with 3+ years of experience in a fast-paced, high-visibility organization. This role plays a critical part in supporting the IndyCar team’s brand execution and commercial growth.

This role is primarily responsible for executing accurate, brand-compliant partner branding on racing assets including race cars, driver fire suits, team apparel, pit equipment and garage environments and designing partnership pitch decks.

Based onsite in Indianapolis, this individual will operate within the global brand standards of McLaren Racing, working in alignment with centralized Creative and Brand Strategy teams in the UK to ensure consistency across the McLaren Racing portfolio.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Create precise, brand-compliant visual integrations across race cars, driver fire suits, team kits, pit stands, toolboxes, transporters, hospitality assets and partner identification systems.

• Design high-quality partnership pitch decks, renewal presentations and commercial sales materials that directly support revenue generation.

• Produce both concept-driven creative projects and structured template-based executions in coordination and under guidance from the McLaren Racing creative team.

• Maintain and update partner branding assets throughout the race season.

• Preserve meticulous attention to detail across typography, color systems, logo placement and asset specifications.

• Ensure compliance with McLaren Racing global brand standards and INDYCAR series regulations.

• Support creative production across digital and print platforms (social templates, web/email graphics, event collateral, internal materials) as well as occasional licensing products.

• Interpret creative and marketing briefs from internal stakeholders and translate them into clear, effective visual outputs that meet campaign or commercial objectives.

• Collaborate with production vendors and internal operations teams to ensure accurate execution of physical assets.

• Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Partnerships, Communications, Social, Licensing and Operations teams.

• Participate in recurring alignment meetings with McLaren Racing UK Creative and Brand teams.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects within a deadline-driven race calendar environment, often requiring rapid turnaround.

• Support select race weekends and team events as needed.