Designer - Philadelphia

Your Role

As a Designer with Gensler's team in Philadelphia, your role is to combine creativity and technical knowledge with business skills and understanding to produce purposeful, functional and beautiful spaces for our clients. You will bring together design excellence, technical rigor, and strategic thinking to deliver interior spaces that are both deeply functional and experientially rich.

You will work within a highly collaborative, client-focused culture that values design quality, resilience, and social purpose. This role offers the opportunity to apply informed, user-centered design to unlock solutions that are defining the next chapter of workplace design through spaces that adapt, endure, and elevate the human experience.

What You Will Do

• You will be an integral part of our teams and actively foster a respectful, creative, and inspiring design environment
• Support interior design assignments that include interpreting client's needs, space planning, conceptual design, schematic design, design development, construction documentation and construction administration services.
• Collaborate with teammates on the selection and presentation of furniture systems, fixtures and equipment (FF&E), color palettes, and lighting design
• Generate design with 3D models, Revit, Sketchup or other software, create digital 3D view to communicate design concepts
• Select interior finishes and develop reflected ceiling plans, elevations, details, specifications, and material selections needed for construction
• Provide design and documentation support during completion and execution of design concepts
• Support communication with external consultants, product representatives, furniture dealers, and fabricators
• Guide and mentor less experienced teammates
• Develop client relationship skills; management skills and leadership skills
• Participate in business development events outside of the office to build client relationships and establish a design presence in the local market to help grow the firm's business.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Interior Architecture, Interior Design or Architecture from an accredited program
• 3-6 years of relevant interior design and interior architecture experience within a commercial design firm
• Minimum of 1+ years of experience designing and delivering workplace interiors projects is preferred/required

• Strong verbal and written communication, presentation, and relationship building skills
• Proficient with Revit
• LEED accreditation or WELL AP is preferred

*This role is not remote or hybrid; we look forward to working with our new Designer in our dynamic Philadelphia office.

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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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NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

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