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. We believe that this approach results in brands that build trust, inspire confidence, and forge lasting relationships.
Your Role
As a Senior Signage and Wayfinding Designer at Gensler, you will tap into your boundless creativity to design unique environmental experiences across a diverse media landscape. You are passionate about helping clients enhance their brand and business performance through design, and adept at developing signage and wayfinding strategies, creative, and up-front design concepts. Join a team of thinkers and doers who help client to express their story through graphic and branded communications.
Please note, this role is not remote. We look forward to working with our new Senior Signage and Wayfinding Designer in our incredible London office.
What You Will Do
- Work with a multi-disciplinary team of architects and designers to design graphics, branded environment, signage and wayfinding solutions that connect people to place for diverse client projects.
- Conduct research for the organizational, cultural and physical context surrounding a project
- Define clear signage and wayfinding strategies based on experience requirements, audience journeys, and site context
- Generate multiple initial concepts and develop viable, documented design solutions that help solve a variety of problems for our clients
- Integrate messaging, color, imagery, type and composition into two and three-dimensional built environments
- Prepare final documentation and production-ready artwork for 3D/EGD, print, or digital applications
- Collaborate with clients, design teams and other graphic designers across multiple industries
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, industrial design, environmental design, architecture, visual communication or related field
- 10+ years professional experience in environmental graphic design, print/digital design, or similar studio experience
- Experience developing and communicating strategic foundations for projects
- Experience with planning, documentation and management of environmental graphic, wayfinding and signage projects in the context of the built environment
- Experience leading client presentations and relationships
- Ability to lead and organise project teams
- Experience across a variety of project scales and complexity of environments
- Demonstrate the ability to translate strategy into design solutions
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and MS Office
- Familiarity with architectural construction documents, scales, sections, plans and elevations; proficiency in drawing in scale
- Use of SketchUp, Revit, or other 3D modeling programs a plus
- Working knowledge of motion graphics software, digital video editing, or other skills related to designing for and creating dynamic content a plus
For consideration, please submit, along with online application, a personal portfolio that contains examples of fully realised and produced graphic project work. Process sketch books are appreciated.
Life at Gensler
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical and dental insurance, season ticket loans, pension and twice annual bonus opportunities.
As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.
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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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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.
