Marketing Specialist

Gensler’s Los Angeles office is seeking a creative, motivated, and highly collaborative individual to join our team as a Marketing Specialist to partner with our workplace and brand design practice areas.

Marketing Specialists are the key producers of materials that support Gensler’s business development efforts. They partner with office leadership, senior staff, and marketing peers to write, design, and produce proposals, presentations, and other collateral used to help the firm win work.

Marketers also lead the positioning activities of the marketing studio, such as strategy, speaking engagement presentations, writing project case stories, photography coordination, graphic design of collateral, and knowledge management.

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Your Role

We are looking for a strategic marketer with a strong attention to detail. Our next superstar will be a natural collaborator, eager to lend a hand, and share an idea.

Excellent communicators, proactive problem solvers, graphic design wizards, and strategic thinkers will find an environment that supports thoughtful work and professional growth.

What You Will Do

• Work with principals, senior staff, and other marketing team members to design, write, and produce proposals, presentations, and other thought leadership collateral in alignment with brand standards.
• Participate and lead pursuit strategy and planning.
• Develop new materials as needed to support business development activities, with a critical emphasis on graphic design capabilities.
• Learn and understand Gensler’s portfolio of work, practice areas, and capabilities.
• Maintain marketing collateral, resources, and information systems.
• Work closely with other marketing team members to complete special projects and elevate the quality of our efforts.

Your Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in a marketing position with a design or professional services firm.
• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Business, Architecture, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Communications, or Marketing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Creative and impactful graphic design skills, including creating effective presentations and marketing collateral.
• Self-motivator with strong organizational and intra-personal skills, and a great collaborator.
• Strong organizational skills to coordinate and manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Ability to work with diverse project teams and in a fast-paced work environment.
• Mastery of InDesign is a must.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is required.

Please submit a cover letter, resume, and portfolio. The cover letter should address the key characteristics highlighted in the position description and should communicate the reasons why your skillset and background are ideal for this role.

The base salary range will be estimated between $80,000 - $95,000 plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience.

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.

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.

Founded in 1965, Gensler has built a team of 6,000 professionals who partner with clients in over 100 countries each year.

Everything we do is guided by our mission : to create a better world through the power of design.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

Gensler celebrates diversity and our commitment to creating an inclusive environment for our colleagues. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice.

All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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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 [email protected].

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