Your Role
As a Gensler Brand Leader in Dallas, you are a people and project leader, a creator of strategy, a design thinker, a client advocate and a relationship steward. You are a practice builder, who leverages a diverse portfolio of projects and business acumen to engage in new clients and project work. This role is for a leader who loves to push new ideas, is passionate about design, and gets excited about leading diverse projects and extremely talented creatives.
What You Will Do
Strategic Growth
Marketing and Developing new business on a consistent basis
Attending, hosting, or speaking at industry events
Increasing Gensler’s visibility in the marketplace
Working closely with our marketing team to ensure business development reporting, lead generation, fee development, project marketing, proposal writing, and ensuring timely responses
Leadership
Building the industry’s most creative team of designers
Enabling the team to reach their individual potential and maintain a positive team environment
Building staff capabilities through programs that improve individual design skills, technical skills, communication, and project management
Provide a creative, innovative, and nurturing environment
Team Management
Representing the interests of the Brand team and ensuring issues are addressed and resolved expeditiously
Monitoring and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of all staff, business, and financial operations within the Austin Brand team
Managing and mentoring team members
Providing direction on initiatives and project focus
Participating in management meetings, studio meetings, staffing, mentoring, and providing creative direction to design teams
Staff Development
Working closely with your team to ensure an outstanding experience
Overseeing hiring, employee work performance, learning, professional development, bonus review, appointment input, and evaluation.
Inspiring creativity by partnering with design leaders to develop Brand strategies
Projects
Leading projects and ensuring client satisfaction
Focusing on project process, service/delivery, work environment, project documentation, and building clients’ trust and loyalty in Gensler
Where appropriate, acting as the liaison to our clients and becoming the voice of the client guiding project teams
Collaborating with other office leaders, Practice Area Leaders, team members, and colleagues to promote an inter-disciplinary design approach and philosophy
Your Qualifications
15+ years of experience (including leadership) in brand strategy, print design, and environmental graphics
Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or related field
Ability to be client-facing and bring in business
Exceptional design sense with the ability to provide clear, critical design reviews to project teams
Excellent communication skills and experience as the main point of contact for clients, vendors, consultants, and project teams
Ability to lead complex, multifaceted projects while exhibiting financial stewardship and adhering to demanding project schedules
Ability to work closely with design leadership across Gensler to promote an interdisciplinary design philosophy and to facilitate its advancement both inside and outside of the firm
Desire to develop, motivate, and mentor young design professionals
Demonstrated success in building, nurturing, and sustaining client relationships
This is not a hybrid or remote position. If you’re open to relocating to the Dallas, Texas area, please apply! Non-local candidates are welcome. U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 study ranks Dallas in the top 3 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.
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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.
