Environmental Graphic Designer

Your Role

Gensler’s brand design team is fun, talented, passionate, enthusiastic and great at helping our clients enhance their brand and business performance.

As a design firm, Gensler is committed to being client-first, diverse, exploratory and sustainable-minded. Come join our Los Angeles brand studio as an environmental graphic designer working with clients across industries and the world to inform brand experiences, graphic communications and spatial design projects that embody our clients’ mission, vision and purpose.

The position is best suited to a designer who is adept at developing creative up-front design concepts, environmental graphics and experiential identity for physical space.

You should be able to think creatively and execute on the technical understanding to final production.

What You Will Do

The Environmental Graphic Designer will be responsible for the design of a wide variety of graphics, branded environment, signage, and way-finding projects.

The designer will work as a key partner on fast-paced interdisciplinary teams of architects, interior designers, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, and more that deliver projects ranging from strategic planning to corporate and retail interiors.

The Environmental Graphic Designer will deliver creative solutions in a diverse range of markets including hospitality, retail, restaurants, and workplace.

Who we are looking for

• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills, are well spoken, and have the ability to work well with integrated teams of architects and interior designers.
• You can communicate ideas clearly in client presentations and to the team
• You can draw at scale and are comfortable working with architectural documentation, elevations, plans and shop drawings
• You are plugged into emerging technologies / industry / design trends and have a desire to share with the team
• You have a strong work ethic, are flexible, positive and work well in a fast-paced collaborative team setting
• You have a portfolio that shows a variety of approaches and specific examples of fully realized and produced projects.
• Demonstrates your ability to apply a client’s brand and design aesthetic across multiple mediums
• Shows your interest in expanding your skillset across design platforms such as the built environment, signage and wayfinding, experiential design, brand design and digital design

Your Qualifications

• Bachelors or higher degree in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Architecture, Visual Communication or similar
• 5-10 years of post-graduate and directly relevant work experience in environmental graphics required
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), CADTools, Microsoft Word and Excel
• Revit, Sketch Up, After Effects and Adobe Premiere skills are a huge advantage
• Working knowledge of print and production, vendor management
• Strong sense of materials and fabrication / construction within a built environment
• Typography and illustration skills a huge plus

To be considered, please submit portfolio and / or work samples in PDF format.

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.

We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.

The base salary range will be estimated between $90,000-$115,000 plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience.