Brand Designer - Lifestyle - Senior

Overview

Gensler’s Brand Design studio is a collaborative team of designers, strategists, and storytellers that engages with a wide variety of clients on projects of all sizes—from product packaging and websites to campus signage systems and international brand positioning. As Gensler brand designers, we help our clients tell their unique stories effectively via every channel available in today’s diverse media landscape. Our approach combines design and architectural expertise with a unique point of view and strong communication skills. We believe that this approach results in brands that build trust, inspire confidence, and forge lasting relationships.
Your Role

Gensler Seattle is seeking a Senior Signage & Wayfinding Designer, with a passion for helping our clients enhance their built spaces through complex signage and wayfinding systems. This position will focus on the ability to understand an environment’s design, and to develop and program a complex signage and wayfinding system to fit that space.
What You Will Do

Work with a multi-disciplinary team of architects and designers to create a strategy, design signage and wayfinding solutions that connect people to place for diverse client projects.
Generate multiple initial concepts and develop viable, documented design solutions that help solve complex wayfinding conditions.
Integrate messaging, color, imagery, type and composition into three-dimensional built environments.
Produce design intent documentation suitable for public bid processes.
Review and elevate the quality of our design and documentation with design sensibility, code and technical knowledge.
Manage construction administration with fabricators, RFIs and installation quality.
Mentor and train junior designers.
Collaborate with clients, design teams and other graphic designers across multiple industries.
Facilitate great design results by cultivating and maintaining positive client and team relationships.
Perform as point of contact on projects for clients, vendors, and teams.
Manage multidisciplinary project team workload for multiple projects.
Create and manage project scopes, budgets and workplans.
Manage project financial performance.
Assist in the development of proposals and collaborate in the strategic development of new business.
Interact with internal team members, project managers from other areas, representatives from accounting and external vendors.
Manage coordination between internal departments or studios.
Manage project staffing/hours.
Your Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, industrial design, environmental graphic design, architecture or a related field.
10+ years of professional experience in signage and wayfinding, environmental graphic design or similar studio experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to read architectural construction documents and shop drawings.
Totally client and team-oriented, knows how to balance demands for time and resources.
Strong leadership, organization, communication and relationship management skills.
Experience in marketing, writing and delivering proposals for project work.
Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Word and Excel.
Knowledge of project management tools and methods.
Organized and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
Comfortable in internal and external client-facing situations.
Familiarity with CAD and Revit preferred.
Compensation

The base salary will be estimated between $106,000 and $115,000 plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience.
Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, paid time off, a 401(k), profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. We also reimburse for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees, and tuition for eligible programs or classes.
Life at Gensler

From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests. We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our work challenges conventional ideas about architecture and the built environment; we are not just designing buildings—we are reimagining cities and places that make a difference in people’s lives.
Notice to Applicants

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs.
We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law. Individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. Know your rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal, right to work and E-verify program, as required by law.
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Application

For consideration, please submit resume and work samples in PDF format.

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