Your Role
As an Architect for Gensler, your job is to combine creativity and technical knowledge with business skills and understanding to produce functionally beautiful projects for clients. Your work ethic, combined with your commitment to collaboration and mentoring, makes Gensler the perfect place to nurture your career. Our teams design for all of humanity, driving a passionately curious design culture to create solutions that are emotionally resonant and that positively impact people’s everyday experiences. A focus for the role will be designing Hospitality spaces. With you as part of the design team, architecture has never been so engaging.
What You Will Do
Lead architectural deliverables on projects, working with Design Director(s), Technical Director(s), and project team(s) for all project phases, including conceptual designs, presentations, schematic design, design development, construction documents, and production
Provide creative direction to design teams
Collaborate with design team, clients, consultants, contractors, fabricators, regulatory agencies, and other vendors to meet overall project objectives
Resolve complex design issues with innovative and practical solutions
Produce graphic presentations, 3D renderings, and construction drawings
Assist in managing client expectations, team communication, and consultant coordination
Contribute to office activities, initiatives, and learning programs
Advance the understanding that design resilience is the responsibility of every person at Gensler
Cultivate design expertise with the desire to always learn, grow, and evolve
Your Qualifications
Licensed / Registered Architect
Bachelor's degree in Architecture from an accredited program
10+ years of relevant architecture and design experience, with a strong background in Hospitality projects
Revit experience required
Full knowledge of architectural principles/practices
Working knowledge of building codes, standards, and building structures
Experience with the entire project lifecycle and design process through post-occupancy
Flexibility to focus on concurrent projects in various stages of development
A quick learner with an ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment
Excellent written + verbal communication and management skills to include leadership, organization, and client relationship management skills
Well-rounded, strategic thinker with an integrated approach to design, management, and technical project resolution who can help shape a vision for the future
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This position is in-person. Successful candidates will be located in the Nashville, Tennessee area. If you’re open to relocating to the area, please apply! Non-local candidates are welcome. U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 study ranks Nashville in the top 3 places to live in Tennessee!
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.
Skills Required
- Licensed / Registered Architect
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture from an accredited program
- 10+ years of relevant architecture and design experience, with a strong background in Hospitality
- Revit experience
- Knowledge of architectural principles/practices
- Working knowledge of building codes and standards
- Experience with the entire project lifecycle and design process
- Excellent communication and management skills
- Experience managing client expectations and team communication
Gensler Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Gensler and has not been reviewed or approved by Gensler.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentive programs include twice‑yearly bonuses and profit sharing that are positioned as meaningful parts of total compensation. Employee ownership elements can reward longer tenure and contribute to overall earnings beyond base pay.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee stock ownership and stock appreciation programs provide wealth‑building avenues beyond salary. These equity mechanisms are highlighted as part of the standard package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage spans medical, dental, and vision alongside life and disability, EAP/mental‑health resources, and wellness programs. Benefits breadth is described as solid within the industry context.
Gensler Insights
What We Do
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 6,000+ professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 33 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors. Everything we do is guided by our mission: To create a better world through the power of design. We believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone. Gensler was named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2016, and our award-winning culture has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021. Our people-first philosophy is centered on the core ideas of diversity empowerment, impact, community, respect, and growth. You can learn more about our commitment to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace at https://www.gensler.com/careers#diversity.
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