Brand Director

Gensler • Austin, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for a Brand Director with signage and wayfinding expertise to join our Austin Lifestyle Studio—where we shape experiences across Texas and beyond. 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. Gensler's Brand Design team is all about making people feel happy, surprised, smart, confident, important, beautiful. We’re fun, talented, passionate, and really good at helping our clients enhance their brand and business performance. As a design firm, Gensler is committed to being client-first, diverse, exploratory and sustainably minded. As the Brand Director, you will work with clients across industries and the world to express their story in multiple media from spaces and places to digital, print, signage and wayfinding.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in signage and wayfinding within an architecture or design firm
• Experience in environmental graphic design is a plus
• Experience with concept design through implementation of code signage, wayfinding signage
• Project Management experience; coordinating and keeping projects on schedule, time and on budget.
• Ability to effectively prioritize with strong time management skills in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of room numbering, user journeys with relation to navigation, building code requirements and design standards
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Sketch Up, Revit, AutoCAD, MS Office Suite and the Adobe Creative Suite
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail
• High level of professionalism and strong sense of urgency
• Ability to work with minimal guidance; proactive, motivated, self-starter
• Flexibility and ability to handle and manage change effectively and efficiently
• Established success working on multiple tasks/projects as the same time
• Ability to interact professionally with all levels of the firm, clients, and subcontractors
• Must be able to work overtime on an as-needed basis

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with brand team members across the region to develop projects that achieve distinctiveness and recognition for clients and the firm
• Build and maintain excellent client relationships, aware of relevant client information
• Lead and manage the design and detailing of signage and wayfinding systems at all scales
• Manage the detailing of environmental graphics projects at all scales
• Manage project financial performance
• Assist in the development of proposals and collaborate in the strategic development of new business
• Manage project staffing/hours
• Mentor designers in the signage process

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
• reimbursement tuition for certain eligible programs or classes

What This Job Offers

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