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Description
Your Role
As a Gensler Signage Designer within our growing Atlanta office, you will bring technical proficiency with a passion for helping translate a client's brand into physical environments through graphics, signage, wayfinding, and placemaking strategies. You will focus on the strategy, design, documentation, and implementation oversight of signage systems including coordination and integration into larger architectural project contexts. Our ideal candidate is a strong 2D and 3D designer, who can quickly generate multiple concepts and develop them into viable design solutions. You have strong technical skills and will coordinate between multiple internal project design teams, fabricators, and clients. Your projects will vary in size and span across multiple industries.
This mid-to-senior role is a hands-on designer, thinker, collaborator, and leader. You must love to push new ideas, be passionate about design, and get excited about juggling diverse projects and working with extremely talented creative teams. As a main point of contact for the client, you'll draw on your extensive knowledge of the design and delivery process while mentoring junior staff to encourage the highest level of design and client satisfaction.
As a Signage Wayfinding Design leader, you will be responsible for delivering design and strategy and collaborating with fast-paced interdisciplinary teams of architects, interior designers, graphic designers, illustrators, digital designers and more to deliver projects ranging from complex signage & wayfinding programs to small bespoke signage solutions. You will lead and deliver projects from start to finish maintaining design excellence and exceptional client service. Your work will span a diverse range of markets including healthcare, education, entertainment, hospitality, retail, sports, and workplace.
What You Will Do
- Develop innovative signage and wayfinding strategies that solve complex navigation challenges and create intuitive user experiences
- Conduct research and user journey analysis to understand organizational, cultural, and physical environments, translating insights into effective communication systems
- Design cohesive sign families, hierarchies, messaging frameworks, and environmental graphics that integrate typography, color, symbology, materials, and architectural context
- Create sign location plans, message schedules, traffic flow diagrams, and detailed wayfinding documentation from concept through implementation
- Produce design intent packages, technical drawings, elevations, details, and production-ready artwork for 2D, 3D, print, and digital applications
- Collaborate closely with clients, architects, designers, contractors, and fabricators to deliver integrated, high-quality signage solutions
- Coordinate fabrication, construction, and installation documentation while reviewing RFIs, shop drawings, prototypes, and submittals to ensure design integrity
- Participate in site surveys, field verification, installation reviews, and punch walks to ensure successful project execution from concept to completion
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously while contributing to studio standards, best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement across signage and wayfinding design
- Focus on anticipating needs throughout the project process, ensuring clarity of deliverables, timelines, and focus on the scope / client expectations
- Assist with reviewing scope proposals and identifying talent within the team to support the client ask
- Support senior designers and studio directors in business development with both current and potential clients
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, industrial design, environmental design, architecture, visual communication, or related field
- 8-10 years of professional experience in signage and wayfinding design or similar studio experience
- Strong graphic design, illustration, typography, composition, and information design skills across multiple project types
- Portfolio demonstrating installed signage and wayfinding work, including both conceptual design and technical documentation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to manage a project and multitask, working on various projects at once, often with tight deadlines and with careful attention to detail
- Ability to work with moderate guidance; proactive, motivated, self-starter
- Software Competency:
- Mastery: Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop), MS Office
- Nice to have: Revit and other 3D modeling software such as Rhino, Sketchup, or similar
For consideration, please submit a personal portfolio that contains examples of project work that highlights your creative process from concept to final deliverables.
This role is not remote; we look forward to working with our new Signage and Wayfinding Designer in our dynamic Atlanta office.
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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.
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Gensler endeavors to make gensler.com/careers accessible to all applicants. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us.
Regarding Gensler’s approach to recruiting new talent, we will never ask an applicant for sensitive or personal financial information during the recruitment process. We advise all applicants seeking employment with Gensler to review available information on recruitment fraud. Anyone who suspects that they have been contacted by someone falsely representing Gensler should email info@gensler.com.