Your Role
As a Project Manager on Gensler’s Brand team, you connect the disciplines of strategy, storytelling, and design to create and refresh brand experiences that inspire, teach, connect, and thrill people. You guide projects from concept through implementation with creativity, team orientation, organization, and a positive outlook. Our design managers lead work streams, elevate creative outcomes, strengthen client relationships, and contribute to the growth of the Brand practice area, advancing Gensler’s mission to create a better world through the power of design.
What You Will Do
- Manage all phases of a project lifecycle through clear project objectives, deliverables, and workplans tailored to brand team workflows.
- Coordinate interdisciplinary teams including graphic and brand designers, signage specialists, strategists, architects, interior designers, digital experience designers, and fabrication partners.
- Manage schedules, budgets, and related processes with a knowledge of the unique needs of brand-driven, experience-focused work.
- Work with design leaders on the creative and strategic process of brand strategy, experience design, environmental graphics, and experiential storytelling across all project phases.
- Track and manage financial performance, staffing & revenue planning, and resource allocations across brand workstreams.
- Support contract development, fee negotiation, and alignment of scope, schedule, and budget.
- Lead client and partner communications for project teams and coordination.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, building long-term relationships rooted in insight, proactive communication, and design excellence.
- Anticipate evolving client needs and identify opportunities to strengthen partnerships and expand services.
- Actively seek and cultivate new business opportunities through lead development and preparation of proposals, pitches, and related activities.
- Engage in networking, outreach, and industry events to represent Gensler, build brand team visibility through thought leadership and external engagement.
- Mentor junior and mid-level brand team members and contribute to a collaborative, supportive studio culture rooted in the One Firm Firm philosophy.
Your Qualifications
- Skilled at leading interdisciplinary teams and aligning multiple parties around a shared vision.
- Clear, confident communicator capable of guiding clients through complex brand/experience decisions.
- Proven track record of identifying, pursuing, winning, designing and delivering successful, innovative Brand Design projects.
- Ability to manage multiple fast-paced brand projects with shifting priorities.
- Strong negotiation skills and track record of navigating scope, budget, and vendor coordination.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with an eagerness to build relationships and grow the practice.
- Invested in elevating team talent and studio culture.
Capabilities
This position is best suited for a personable account or project manager to maintain accounts and serve as our main point of contact externally as well as internally with the integrated project team. This is not a full-time designer role, but may be suited for someone who started a career in design and shifted to project/client leadership.
- 6-10 years’ experience in a design firm, brand agency, marketing/communications capacity or similar professional experience
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field: design, business, marketing
- Experience delivering projects for place-based brands and environments
- Highly organized and proficient in using/creating tools that support work efficiency
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with direct client management experience
- Ability to manage multiple projects (often at highly varied scales) simultaneously
- Both client and team-oriented; experience with managing projects and design teams
- Proficient in MS Office programs; experience with Adobe Creative Suite a plus
Qualified candidates will be invited for in-person interviews where we will review examples of your successful approaches to team, client, and project management.
**The estimated base salary range for this position is $90,000 - $105,000, plus eligibility for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package, with final compensation contingent on relevant experience. To learn more about our compensation philosophy and full benefits offerings, please visit Great People, Great Rewards | Gensler.
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.
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