Your Role
Gensler’s Silicon Valley office is seeking an Experiential Graphic Designer with a passion for helping clients communicate their stories through immersive, multi-channel experiences across today’s diverse media landscape. This role centers on the ability to deeply understand a client’s brand and translate it into compelling expressions through graphic design, spatial environments, and technology. We are looking for a creative and motivated designer who is passionate about learning, collaboration, and bringing thoughtful, experience-driven design to a wide range of project types.
You will join a collaborative studio of designers, architects, strategists, digital experience experts, and storytellers who partner with clients across a broad spectrum of industries. Our work spans environmental graphics and campus signage systems to brand identity, placemaking, and communications strategy.
As experience designers at Gensler, we help clients tell their unique stories through a range of media, with a focus on spatial and environmental design. Our approach integrates design and architectural expertise with a distinct point of view and strong storytelling capabilities—resulting in brands that build trust, inspire confidence, and create lasting connections.
This role is intended for a designer who integrates AI tools as a core component of their creative workflow—not simply as an add-on. Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate AI-driven processes, exploration, and outputs within their portfolio.
What You Will Do
As an Experiential Graphic Designer, you will be responsible for the design of a wide variety of graphics, branded environments, and wayfinding projects
You will work as a key partner on fast-paced interdisciplinary teams of architects, interior designers, graphic designers, illustrators, motion graphic/animators, and more that deliver projects ranging from strategic planning to corporate and retail interiors to sports arenas and mixed-use developments
You will deliver creative solutions in a diverse range of markets including workplace, hospitality, retail, sports, aviation and digital channels
You will leverage AI design tools (FLUX-based and diffusion model workflows via the firm’s RunDiffusion platform) to accelerate iteration cycles, expand creative output per engagement, and demonstrate AI-assisted production processes to interdisciplinary project teams
You will contribute to team fluency development by documenting AI workflow approaches, sharing prompt strategies, and participating in studio-wide AI practice initiatives
Design web and digital interfaces for client-facing applications, campaign microsites, and digital experience platforms: translate brand systems into responsive, screen-based environments that extend the physical design narrative into digital channels
Produce video content to elevate client presentations: edit and assemble compelling visual narratives that communicate design intent, sequence spatial experiences, and bring projects to life for client audiences. Video skills may also apply to experiential installations where the project scope calls for it
Your Qualifications
1-4 years of experience in Graphic Design, Experiential Design or Environmental Graphic Design with a professional degree in Industrial Design, Graphic Design or a related field
Exceptional design sense with the ability to integrate messaging, color, imagery, and typography into print, digital, and three-dimensional built environments
Excellent attention to detail and ability to produce production-ready artwork, including file handoff for large-format output: substrate specs, bleed, color profiles, and fabricator-ready formats
Proficiency drawing in scale and familiarity with architectural construction documents, elevations, plans, and shop drawings
Excellent communication skills when working with clients, vendors, consultants, and project teams
Ability to manage multiple projects at once, while remaining efficient, poised, communicative and organized
Flexibility to work both collaboratively and independently on projects of all scales and types
Proficiency in the latest design software including Adobe Creative Suite, CAD Tools, and AI visualization platforms such as FLUX-based and diffusion model pipelines via enterprise platforms including RunDiffusion; Adobe Firefly experience also valued. Not just awareness, but demonstrated use in an active workflow
Portfolio must include AI-assisted projects with explanation of workflow: what was prompted, what was refined by hand, and why. Portfolios that demonstrate AI-integrated workflows will be prioritized
Ability to articulate design decisions made with and without AI assistance, including where AI accelerates quality, where it introduces risk, and how you applied judgment to each
Portfolio must demonstrate at least one design system you authored: brand standards, wayfinding logic, or component architecture. Not just assets produced within an existing system. Show the rules, not just the output
Proficiency in After Effects or equivalent motion tools for digital signage and animated environmental elements; Rive or Lottie familiarity a plus for interactive wayfinding applications. Video editing proficiency (Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve) required; primary application is client presentation production, with potential extension to experiential installations on select project
Figma proficiency required: component architecture, auto layout, and prototyping for web and digital interface work. SketchUp, Rhino, and/or Revit are a plus
This is not a remote role; we look forward to working with our new Interior Designer in our incredible San Jose, CA office.
To be considered for this opportunity, you must UPLOAD A SAMPLE DESIGN PORTFOLIO to the attachments section of your application.
The base salary will be estimated between $75,000 - $82,000 annually, plus bonuses and benefits and is 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.
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Gensler San Francisco, California, USA Office
45 Fremont St, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94105
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