Job Description

Your Role

We are seeking a Senior Designer with a strong passion for design. In this position, you will collaborate with our Design Directors and design leadership on a variety of exciting workplace projects. As a member of the Workplace team, you will be a part of a team that creates impactful and memorable experiences that will be remembered for a lifetime. Your successful track record on these projects and ability to problem solve both individually and part of a team makes Gensler a perfect place to cultivate your career. This is a good role for someone who is technically proficient and enjoys working with a highly creative, collaborative team dedicated to innovative problem solving and design excellence.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate on commercial interiors projects, including programming client needs, concept design, schematic design, design development, and manage budget/schedule reviews

• Develop space planning concepts and generate program documents

• Participate in selection of furniture systems and specifications

• Provide project team coordination for the finished plans, specifications, and material selections required for construction

• Utilize technical knowledge and delivery experience for effective documentation and detailing

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

• Participate in the construction administration of projects and review of submittals and finish samples

• Manage client expectations, and coordinate team and consultant communications

Your Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Interior Design or Architecture

• 12+ years of related experience as an interior designer, with a focus on commercial interiors

• Must be highly proficient in Revit

• Strong knowledge of the design process, including FF&E, furniture systems and specifications, color and materials

• Outstanding graphic presentation skills

• Willingness to focus on a single client with a variety of project types or multiple projects in various stages of development

• Ability to communicate design ideas and direction quickly

• Strong leadership, organizational, communication and relationship management skills

• Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp required, 3-D Studio Max preferred.

• NCIDQ preferred but not required; working toward licensure is supported and encouraged

Your Design Technology Qualifications

Essential

• Deep knowledge and experience in Autodesk Revit for design authoring, documentation, data extracts and project delivery.

• Experience in collaboration within the BIM context, including cloud-based markups, consultant coordination and clash detection.

• Deep understanding of Real-Time Visualization development within the context of BIM, specifically in the use of Escape/ other rendering mediums.

• Experience in creating FF&E schemes and developing them through detailed technical specification

Desirable

• Working knowledge in the use of VR walkthroughs and panoramas for client presentations, consultant coordination and internal design reviews.

Applications we work with:

• Design Authoring - Revit, Rhino, Autocad, Navisworks

• Collaboration - BIM360 • Computational Design - Grasshopper, Dynamo

• Building Performance Simulation - Insight, Sefaira, Diva, Ladybug tools

• Visualisation – Vray, Enscape, Twinmotion, 3DSMax ,Graphics & Productivity - Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, • Experiential – Unreal Engine, Unity ,Development – C#, Python

Life at Gensler

As a people-first organization, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From internal design competitions to research grants 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 and wellness programs. We also offer profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities. 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.