Brand Designer - Lifestyle - Senior

About the role

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, resulting in brands that build trust, inspire confidence, and forge lasting relationships.

Gensler Seattle is seeking a Senior Signage & Wayfinding Designer with a passion for helping clients enhance their built spaces through complex signage and wayfinding systems. This position focuses on understanding an environment’s design and developing and programming a complex signage and wayfinding system to fit that space—helping visitors, students, passengers, and other users navigate through a combination of graphics, signage, wayfinding, and physical installations.

Responsibilities

• Work with a multi-disciplinary team of architects and designers to create 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 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

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Disability coverage
• Wellness programs
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• 401(k) plan
• Profit sharing
• Employee stock ownership
• Twice annual bonus opportunities
• Reimbursement for certain professional licenses, renewals, and exam fees
• Tuition reimbursement for eligible programs or classes

Pay

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