Your Role
As a Gensler Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for partnering with our office directors in Atlanta and practice leaders across the southeast to assure our marketing efforts are strategic, targeted, and represent the Gensler brand to your fullest potential. You will be responsible for growing and developing a team of marketing professionals while leading the pursuit to grow the business. You will be successful because you are skilled in managing teams, proposal development, and meeting deliverable schedules.
What You Will Do
- Grow and manage the regional marketing team while coaching the team for professional growth.
- Grow and mentor our marketing team in Atlanta to support the office and the region.
- Partner with our business leaders to lead pursuits, and ensure our marketing deliverables are creative and responsive to clients.
- Seek out and implement process and content improvements (i.e. using new technologies to create efficiencies; assuring the boilerplate materials are nailed down to go to market).
- Explore and set a vision for embracing new design tools and technology, such as AI and video integration.
- Collaborate with Marketing Directors around process to maintain resources and information systems: updating project documentation and image libraries.
- Lead weekly BD meeting/reporting with Atlanta office leadership.
- Conduct win/loss analysis of opportunities and pursuit marketing budget/spend.
- Collaborate with Office Directors on strategic internal communications and presentations.
Your Qualifications
- 15+ years of marketing experience, preferably in architecture, design, or related industries.
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Graphic Design, or a related field.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to mentor and collaborate.
- Excellent graphic design sensibility and communication skills.
- Experience managing large teams and leading business-critical marketing projects.
- Proficiency in InDesign, Microsoft Office; familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Salesforce is a plus.
This role is not remote, we look forward to working with our new Marketing Manager in our Atlanta office.
Life at Gensler
At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.
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.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of marketing experience
- Experience in architecture, design, or related industries
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Graphic Design, or related field
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills with proven ability to mentor and collaborate
- Excellent graphic design sensibility and communication skills
- Experience managing large teams and leading business-critical marketing projects
- Proficiency in InDesign and Microsoft Office
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Salesforce
- Must work on-site in the Atlanta office (role is not remote)
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.
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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.
