Design Manager - Brand Design

Your Role

Gensler's brand design team changes how people experience their world. We’re fun, talented, passionate, and good 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 Brand Design Practice as a Design Manager and client relationship leader working with varied clients to deliver design solutions from spaces and places to digital, print, signage and wayfinding. Your role is to be a design facilitator who works with varied teams to hear what the client needs and achieve tangible results.

What You Will Do

• Facilitate great design results by cultivating and maintaining positive client and team relationships.
• Overall project responsibility for client management and development, client satisfaction, quality control, and financial performance of projects.
• Perform as main 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 work-plans
• Manage project financial performance and regularly update internal reporting
• Assist in the development of proposals and collaborate in the strategic development of new business
• Interact with internal/external team members, including designers & project managers from other practice areas, representatives from accounting and external vendors
• Manage coordination between studios
• Manage project staffing/hours
• Do whatever it takes to be excellent…

Your Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in an agency, design consultancy, environmental graphic design, architecture/interiors or related field, with 5+ years leading creative teams and overseeing project work
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant discipline.
• Candidate will be expected to provide and review work samples which speak to your experience and impact.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 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.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Knowledge of project management tools and methods.
• Organized and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Comfortable in internal and external client facing situations.
• Nice extras: Familiarity with CAD and Revit, ability to read architectural construction documents and shop drawings.

Candidates will be expected to provide and review work samples which speak to your experience and impact as a thinker and a doer. Send us an introduction of yourself that tells the story of how your efforts as a manager have delivered great results for your company, colleagues and clients.

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.

**Compensation is based upon experience and estimated range is $95,000 – $130,000 annually + bonuses + benefits