Brand Designer - Lifestyle - Senior

Gensler•Seattle, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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. Gensler Seattle is seeking 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. This system will help a visitor, student, passenger—any number of users—navigate that space through a combination of graphics, signage, wayfinding, and physical installations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, industrial design, environmental design, architecture, visual communication or 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

Responsibilities

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 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

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