Brand Designer - Signage

Your Role

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 a Brand Designer - Signage, you will focus on graphic design, illustration, and environmental graphics, including branded environments, signage, and wayfinding systems. You will leverage your expertise in both 2D and 3D design to generate multiple initial concepts and develop them into viable design solutions. This role emphasizes integrating design concepts into built environments across various sectors, including workplace, hospitality, healthcare, and mixed-use projects. You will collaborate with multiple internal project teams and clients, ensuring that design solutions are delivered on time and within budget.

What You Will Do

• Design and manage branded environments, including brand identity, environmental graphics, signage, and digital integration.
• Lead the design and detailing of signage and wayfinding systems at all scales, ensuring compliance with building code requirements and design standards.
• Mentor junior designers in the signage process and environmental graphic design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including architecture, interior design, and strategy, to create cohesive project outcomes.
• Develop and deliver impactful presentations that communicate the "why" behind design decisions.
• Update and reinvent static design assets into fresh animations, including dynamic 2D and 3D content for external video use.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, managing projects effectively while meeting client needs.
• Coordinate project schedules, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.
• Interface with multiple design practices and present concepts clearly and compellingly.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Environmental Graphic Design, Communication Design, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in graphic design, environmental graphics, signage, or a related discipline, preferably within an architecture or design firm.
• Strong graphic design and illustration skills, with proficiency in typography, composition, and information design across various media (print and digital).
• Experience with 3D modeling tools such as SketchUp, Revit, or similar, with the ability to visualize ideas in two and three dimensions.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, CAD tools, and After Effects; experience with programming signage within Revit is a plus.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Professional demeanor with superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in project management, capable of prioritizing tasks effectively while maintaining a sense of urgency.
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to manage change efficiently.

This is not a hybrid or remote position. If you're open to relocating to the Houston, Texas area, please apply! Non-local candidates are welcome. U.S. News & World Report's 2023-2024 study ranks Houston in the top 10 places to live in Texas!!

Life at Gensler

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice-annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.

As part of the firm's commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.

At Gensler, the value of our work stems from its positive impact on the human experience. We are a dynamic and collaborative design firm uniting creativity, research, and innovation to solve complex problems for our clients. Our work challenges conventional ideas about architecture and the built environment. We aren't just designing buildings - we are reimagining cities and places that make a difference in people's lives.