Signage and Wayfinding Designer - Senior

Gensler; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design firm in London seeks a Senior Signage and Wayfinding Designer to create unique environmental experiences. The role involves collaborating with architects and designers, developing signage strategies, and preparing production-ready artwork. Join a dynamic team that values creativity and professional growth.

Benefits

Medical and dental insurance

Season ticket loans

Pension

Twice annual bonus opportunities

Professional development reimbursement

Qualifications

• 10+ years professional experience in environmental graphic design or similar.
• Ability to lead and organize project teams.

Responsibilities

• Design graphics, branded environments, signage, and wayfinding solutions.
• Define clear signage and wayfinding strategies based on audience journeys.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Creativity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design

Bachelor’s degree in industrial design

Bachelor’s degree in environmental design

Bachelor’s degree in architecture

Bachelor’s degree in visual communication

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

SketchUp

Revit

Job description

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Signage and Wayfinding Designer - Senior

Apply locations London, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R-15452

Gensler’s Brand Design studio is a collaborative team of designers, strategists, and storytellers that engages with a wide variety of clients on projects of all sizes—from product packaging and websites to campus signage systems and international brand positioning. As Gensler brand designers, we help our clients tell their unique stories effectively via every channel available in today’s diverse media landscape. Our approach combines design and architectural expertise with a unique point of view and strong communication skills. We believe that this approach results in brands that build trust, inspire confidence, and forge lasting relationships.

Your Role

As a Senior Signage and Wayfinding 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 signage and wayfinding strategies, creative, and up-front design concepts. Join a team of thinkers and doers who help client to express their story through graphic and branded communications.

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
• Define clear signage and wayfinding strategies based on experience requirements, audience journeys, and site context
• 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
• Collaborate with clients, design teams and other graphic designers across multiple industries

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, industrial design, environmental design, architecture, visual communication or related field
• 10+ years professional experience in environmental graphic design, print/digital design, or similar studio experience
• Experience developing and communicating strategic foundations for projects
• Experience with planning, documentation and management of environmental graphic, wayfinding and signage projects in the context of the built environment
• Experience leading client presentations and relationships
• Ability to lead and organise project teams
• Experience across a variety of project scales and complexity of environments
• Demonstrate the ability to translate strategy into design solutions
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and MS Office
• Familiarity with architectural construction documents, scales, sections, plans and elevations; proficiency in drawing in scale
• Use of SketchUp, Revit, or other 3D modeling programs a plus
• Working knowledge of motion graphics software, digital video editing, or other skills related to designing for and creating dynamic content a plus

For consideration, please submit, along with online application, a personal portfolio that contains examples of fully realised and produced graphic project work. Process sketch books are appreciated.

Life at Gensler

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical and dental insurance, season ticket loans, pension and twice annual bonus opportunities.

As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.

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About Us

At Gensler, the value of our work stems from its positive impact on the human experience. We are a dynamic and collaborative design firm uniting creativity, research, and innovation to solve complex problems for our clients. Our work challenges conventional ideas about architecture and the built environment. We aren’t just designing buildings—we are reimagining cities and places that make a difference in people’s lives.

Founded in 1965, Gensler has built a team of 6,000 professionals who partner with clients in over 100 countries each year. Everything we do is guided by our mission: to create a better world through the power of design.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, marital or family status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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