If you think your skills, experience and aspirations make you a good match for this position, we encourage you to apply.
ABOUT OUR ROLE
Our multi-faceted experiential design team is seeking thoughtful and innovative minds, skilled in the arts of visual communication, imaginative storytelling, and creative problem-solving to join our team as we leverage the power of design to bridge the gap between individual, brand, and the built environment to create inspiring experiences for our clients. With your exceptional technical skills, signage and wayfinding experience, and intrinsic knowledge of graphic design, you will join us in addressing our client’s largest challenges and transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Learn more about the EGD Team!
- Lead conceptual and design development across multiple projects, provide art direction to less experienced staff, and develop documentation for a variety of design projects to include graphic programs, wayfinding and signage systems, donor recognition programs and interpretive exhibits.
- Work with select clients to interpret and translate their expressed needs and ideas into concepts in order to effectively communicate their mission and vision.
- Prepare design packages of proposed graphic systems from concept through implementation.
- Coordinate with other disciplines throughout CannonDesign.
- Take a leadership role in guiding project teams.
- Review and redline shop drawings and submittals throughout the construction administration phase.
- Take a lead role in project meetings.
- Work with vendors/fabricators and outside consultants.
- Maintain accurate files and records.
- Mentorship of less experienced team members.
- May perform other duties as required.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Minimum Bachelor degree in Graphic Design, Architecture, or related design field required.
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience required.
- Exceptional design portfolio and strong background in typography is essential as is strong communication skills and the ability to work well collaboratively.
- Strong knowledge of signage and wayfinding design and methodology and understanding of all aspects of experiential design required.
- Strong client leadership and technical leadership for production team: large, complex projects.
- Ability to perform work with a high degree of latitude.
- Must be a critical thinker, highly analytical, and possess business acumen.
- Proficient in project management.
- Attention to detail a must.
- Proficiency on Mac in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign required. Skills in Revit and SketchUp a plus.
The salary range for this position is $90,095 to $112,695 annually; actual compensation will depend on the location and experience of the final candidate. Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses. We offer a full benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage as well as flexible spending account options and voluntary insurances. We have paid time off, flexible schedules, hybrid work options, a 401k plan and employee perk programs. For a general overview of our benefits, please visit our careers page at https://www.cannondesign.com/careers/benefits
ABOUT OUR FIRM
CannonDesign is a design practice where strategy, experience, architecture, engineering, and social impact converge. We don’t just dream up solutions — we create and bring them to life in ways to solve some of the biggest challenges facing our clients and the society. At the heart of everything we do is Living-Centered Design, a bold commitment to using our talents to not just improve the world but to truly reshape it for the better. It’s more than a philosophy — it’s who we are, and it drives us to make a meaningful, lasting difference every day.
ABOUT WORKING HERE
- We are relentless in our pursuit of client adoration (not simply satisfaction). Consistent delivery of the best service is what we are about.
- We are committed to ensuring our practice is equitable for all employees, representative of the communities around us – and focused on the future of design. We advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts through the leadership of our DEI Council, Employee Resource Groups and other community advocacy initiatives.
- We’re about communication and transparency here. If you want to talk to someone about an idea you have, or a challenge that needs addressing, we’re ready for you.
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As a condition of employment, all employees are expected to complete mandatory training, including compliance training, within required timeframes and adhere to our internal policies and our Code of Conduct.
CannonDesign is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CannonDesign is committed to maintaining a work environment that is free from any and all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment. It is therefore the firm’s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicant, CannonDesign employee, vendor, contractor, or client on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by law. It is also CannonDesign’s policy to prohibit any and all forms of retaliation against any individual who has complained of harassing or discriminatory conduct, or participated in a firm or agency investigation into such complaints.
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What We Do
As an integrated design firm, we do a lot of things. But at our core, we help people continuously flourish.
We leverage the heart, passion and intelligence of our more than 1,000 creative thinkers to develop solutions for some of the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Whether designing for equity in education, accessible healthcare, inclusive communities, new scientific discoveries or the “next big idea” in business, we partner with organizations to help them improve human life.
We do this through a design approach we created called Living-Centered Design. Our approach realizes that to create a world where people continuously flourish, we must address the complex interdependencies that exist between people, businesses, communities, society and the environment.
Learn more at cannondesign.com/livingcentereddesign.
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