Designer - Retail/Lifestyle

Your Role

As a Gensler Designer, you are passionate about your craft and combine creativity and technical knowledge with business skills and understanding to produce beautiful and functional spaces for clients. You have experience working on the interior fit-out of guest-facing spaces such as boutique retail and upscale restaurants. You have strong design skills, a background in interior design and a portfolio of innovative design concepts. You are an integral member of the design team who relishes contributing a point of view and craves participation in conceptual thought-processes and design exploration.

What You Will Do

• Create initial concept packages with a strong design story, to guide the design process through project completion

• Conduct programming efforts through space planning studies to arrive at final approved plan that meet the project goals

• Sculpt interior spaces as a holistic experience including specification of furniture, lighting, artwork, and finishes/materials

• Lead day-to-day project coordination efforts with the ability to prioritize deadlines, manage communication and coordination with clients and consultants

• Communicate conceptual design ideas through 2D and 3D presentation/design drawings.

• Work with consultants, contractors, fabricators, specification writers, and regulatory agencies to meet overall project objectives

• Participate in the construction administration of projects - including review of submittals and finish samples as well as value engineering efforts to maintain design intent

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, or related field from an accredited school

• 1+ years of related interior design experience preferably with guest-facing (restaurant, boutique) and/or residential multi-family, mixed-use projects

• Proficient in SketchUp and/or Revit and adept at learning new programs

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

• Knowledge of furniture, finishes, materials, color selections, and specifications

• modeling and visual communication skills are highly valued

• Passionate, self-starting, intelligent, dedicated, efficient

• Detailed understanding of FF&E design and deliverables

Applications without portfolios will not be considered.

The base salary range will be estimated between $70-75k plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience.

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.