Your Role
As an Experienced Brand (Graphic) Designer at Gensler, you will tap into your boundless creativity to design unique environmental experiences across a diverse media landscape. You are passionate about helping clients enhance their brand and business performance through design, and adept at developing creative, up-front design concepts. Join a team of thinkers and doers who help client to express their story through graphic and branded communications. You’re a design facilitator who works with varied teams to hear what the client needs and achieve it brilliantly. Show us how your efforts delivered great results for client brands, team satisfaction and project performance.
What You Will Do
- Work with a multi-disciplinary team of architects and designers to design graphics, branded environment, signage and wayfinding solutions that connect people to place for diverse client projects
- Conduct research for the organizational, cultural and physical context surrounding a project
- Generate multiple initial concepts and develop viable, documented design solutions that help solve a variety of problems for our clients
- Integrate messaging, color, imagery, type and composition into two and three-dimensional built environments
- Prepare final documentation and production-ready artwork for 3D/EGD, print, or digital applications
- Work with a multi-disciplinary team to design visual identities, graphics, print collateral, digital communications, branded environments, signage and wayfinding solutions for diverse client projects
- Collaborate with clients, design teams and other graphic designers across multiple industries
- Facilitate great design results by cultivating and maintaining positive client and team relationships
- Perform as point of contact on projects for clients, vendors, and teams
- Manage multidisciplinary project team workload for multiple projects
- Create and manage project scopes, budgets and workplans
- Assist in the development of proposals and collaborate in the strategic development of new business
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, industrial design, environmental design, architecture, visual communication or related field
- 7+ years of professional experience in graphic design, print/digital design, or similar studio experience
- 100% bilingual English/Spanish, well written with excellent verbal communication skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to read architectural construction documents and shop drawings
- Totally client- and team-oriented, knows how to balance demands for time and resources
- Strong leadership, organization, communication and relationship management skills
- Experience in marketing, writing and delivering proposals for project work
- Ability to perform innovative qualitative research to generate ideas, concepts, and POV
- Expertise in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop – very strong Adobe skills are required
- Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
- Organized and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple projects and deadlines
- Comfortable in internal and external client facing situations
- Familiarity with CAD and Revit preferred
Life at Gensler - Costa Rica
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 subsidized health and life insurance, profit sharing, annual bonus, LinkedIn learning, holiday observance, additional PTO days every 5 years and employee assistance programs.
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.
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What We Do
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 6,000+ professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 33 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors.
Everything we do is guided by our mission: To create a better world through the power of design.
We believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone.
Gensler was named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2016, and our award-winning culture has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021. Our people-first philosophy is centered on the core ideas of diversity empowerment, impact, community, respect, and growth. You can learn more about our commitment to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace at https://www.gensler.com/careers#diversity.
