Gensler’s Brand Team in Houston is seeking an exceptionally talented and passionate
Brand Designer to join our team of design thinkers and doers who specialize in helping to tell stories and create experiences in the context of the built environment. As a Gensler experience designer, we help our clients tell their unique stories effectively via every channel available in today’s diverse media landscape, with a focus on spatial design. The Brand Design team is embedded in a studio alongside Consulting, Architecture, and Interior Design practice areas, creating a unique opportunity to develop multidisciplinary solutions for our clients.
Your Role
This position will focus on graphic design and illustration. Having capabilities in motion graphics such as Adobe After Effects or any 3D visualization program and/or signage technical knowledge would be a plus but not required. The candidate is a strong 2D and 3D designer who will be required to quickly generate multiple initial concepts and develop them into viable design solutions. Our ideal candidate will also have strong technical skills from design development through documentation and coordination. Design solutions will have a strong emphasis on integrating concepts into built environments. This individual will coordinate between multiple internal project teams and clients. Projects will cover several design disciplines including, workplace, hospitality, healthcare, and mixed-use projects.
What You Will Do
- Design branded environments including brand identity, naming strategies, environmental graphics, signage, and digital integration
- You will be successful because you excel in storytelling, have a strong graphic design ability, and impeccable project management skills.
- Manage own projects within a wider team, ensuring client’s needs are met on time and within budget
- Assist the Design Director in winning work, creating key pitches, and building client relationships
- Compose design presentations that are both verbally and visually compelling
- Interface with multiple internal design practices, including architecture, interior design, strategy, and master planning
- Be able to multitask, working on various projects at once, often with tight deadlines and with careful attention to detail
- Update and reinvent static design assets into fresh animations
- Create dynamic, organic, 2D, 3D, technically accurate, animated content for use in external video
- Create lower thirds, transitions, and other dynamic content
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, environmental graphic design, information design, communication design, or similar
- 3+ years of experience after graduation in design or a related field
- Creative and impactful graphic design skills, including creating effective presentations and marketing collateral
- Strong graphic communication and design skills
- Strong illustration, typography, composition, and information design skills across multiple project types such as print communications or digital tools (i.e. websites, apps, etc.)
- Experience designing for the built environment and comprehension of architectural scales, sections, plans, and elevations a plus
- Ability to visualize ideas in two and three-dimensions
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving solving and communication skills that work well in an interdisciplinary, fast-paced environment
- Strong presentation skills with an ability to communicate the “why” behind design decisions
- Software Competency: Adobe Creative Suite with CADtools and After Effects
- The ability to work in 3D modeling programs such as SketchUp or Revit is a strong advantage
- Impressive illustration skills are a huge plus
- The ability to design and deliver websites is a plus, but not required
To be considered for this opportunity, you must
UPLOAD A SAMPLE DESIGN PORTFOLIO to the attachment’s sections of your application.
This is not a hybrid or remote position. If you’re open to relocating to the Houston, Texas area, please apply! Non-local candidates are welcome. U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 study ranks Houston in the top 10 places to live in Texas!!
Life at Gensler
Gensler is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Through our Five Strategies to Fight Racism, we continue to create a just and equitable future for our colleagues and our communities with our clients. We are a solid voice for social change as we impact people’s lives and fight racism. At Gensler, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace environment. As a people-first organization, 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.