Brand Design Lead

Gensler • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Brand Design Lead with signage and wayfinding expertise to join our Austin Lifestyle Studio. Our work spans college football stadiums, MLS venues, hospitality destinations, landmark lifestyle districts, high-rises, and iconic workplace brands. At the heart of our studio is an experience-driven mindset where brand strategy, storytelling, and spatial design converge to create places people love. In this role, you are a people and project leader, a creator of strategy, a design thinker, a client advocate, and a relationship steward. You are a practice builder who leverages a diverse portfolio of projects and business acumen to engage in new clients and project work. This role is for a leader who loves to push new ideas, is passionate about design, and gets excited about leading diverse projects and extremely talented creatives.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in brand strategy, print design, and environmental graphics
• Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or related field
• Ability to be client-facing and bring in business
• Exceptional design sense with the ability to provide clear, critical design reviews to project teams
• Excellent communication skills and experience as the main point of contact for clients, vendors, consultants, and project teams
• Ability to lead complex, multifaceted projects while exhibiting financial stewardship and adhering to demanding project schedules
• Ability to work closely with design leadership across Gensler to promote an interdisciplinary design philosophy and to facilitate its advancement both inside and outside of the firm
• Desire to develop, motivate, and mentor young design professionals
• Demonstrated success in building, nurturing, and sustaining client relationships

Nice To Haves

• Signage and wayfinding expertise

Responsibilities

• Marketing and developing new business on a consistent basis
• Attending, hosting, or speaking at industry events
• Increasing Gensler’s visibility in the marketplace
• Working closely with our marketing team to ensure business development reporting, lead generation, fee development, project marketing, proposal writing, and ensuring timely responses
• Building the industry’s most creative team of designers
• Enabling the team to reach their individual potential and maintain a positive team environment
• Building staff capabilities through programs that improve individual design skills, technical skills, communication, and project management
• Provide a creative, innovative, and nurturing environment
• Representing the interests of the Brand team and ensuring issues are addressed and resolved expeditiously
• Monitoring and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of all staff, business, and financial operations within the Dallas Brand team
• Managing and mentoring team members
• Providing direction on initiatives and project focus
• Participating in management meetings, studio meetings, staffing, mentoring, and providing creative direction to design teams
• Working closely with your team to ensure an outstanding experience
• Overseeing hiring, employee work performance, learning, professional development, bonus review, appointment input, and evaluation.
• Inspiring creativity by partnering with design leaders to develop Brand strategies
• Leading projects and ensuring client satisfaction
• Focusing on project process, service/delivery, work environment, project documentation, and building clients’ trust and loyalty in Gensler
• Where appropriate, acting as the liaison to our clients and becoming the voice of the client guiding project teams
• Collaborating with other office leaders, Practice Area Leaders, team members, and colleagues to promote an inter-disciplinary design approach and philosophy

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• disability
• wellness programs
• flex spending
• paid holidays
• paid time off
• 401k
• profit sharing
• employee stock ownership
• twice annual bonus opportunities
• reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees
• tuition reimbursement for certain eligible programs or classes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager