DLR Group Hiring for Experiential Graphic Designer Job at Seattle, WA Full Time

DLR Group is an integrated design firm. Our brand promise is the elevate the human experience through design. If that challenge is appealing, you’re at the right place.

DLR Group is seeking an Experiential Graphic Designer.

DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

Locations: Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, or Charlotte

Position Summary:

Join our Experiential Graphic Design Studio (XGD Studio) as an Experiential Graphic Designer (EGD) who works with clients from around the world to express their story in 2 & 3 dimensional media and spaces through experiential design, brand design, signage, and wayfinding. We are seeking an experienced, innovative individual, who can champion experiential graphic design projects from concept to completion with passion, creativity, and attention-to-detail across a broad spectrum of building types. If you thrive working under quick deadlines and lead client project meetings with professionalism and enthusiasm, we want to talk to you! The EGD is responsible for all aspects of signage design, including wayfinding systems, sign location plans, message schedules, and signage drawings as well as brand implementation and environmental graphics. As part of our integrated design teams, you will join a motivated team of strategic and collaborative thought leaders eager to fulfill our mission to elevate the human experience through design! Check out some of our extraordinary work by clicking the link below –

https://www.behance.net/DLRGroup

We are an employee-owned firm where everyone is empowered to use their design voice; this inspires our culture and fuels the passion for the work we do around the world. Bring your creativity and passion and come join us!

The successful candidate will:

• Develop wayfinding and signage projects from start to finish, including analysis and development of wayfinding strategies, sign location plans and message schedules, sign design concepts, schematic designs, design intent packages, and signage guidelines.
• Work with clients to develop specific graphic and user-oriented strategies for experiential graphic design within a built environment, including corporate identity systems, environmental graphics programs, and consumer environments.
• Collaborate with the XGD Studio to support projects in planning, master planning, urban design, pedestrian movement, and user experience within the built environment.
• Assist in development of construction documents, procurement support, and fabrication for wayfinding/signage projects.
• Assist in the development of new brands and conveying the identity in imaginative and compelling ways.
• Coordinate design and delivery with clients, architects, engineers, and other design team members.
• Work collaboratively within a planning and design framework, take direction from the team leaders, and develop high quality, client-ready deliverables within tight schedules and budgets.
• Provide clear and concise written, verbal, and experiential graphic design to client, design team, stakeholders, suppliers, and vendors.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in experiential graphic design, specification, and production.
• Strong work ethic, with demonstrated efficiency, flexibility, and a positive spirit.
• Experience with material, color, typography, and font specifications.
• Knowledge about products, production methods, fabrication, and installation.
• Experience with budget management.
• Ability to travel on short notice via air or ground trips locally and nationally to client meetings (travel estimate, up to 10%).
• Degree in graphic design, architecture, interior design, experiential graphic design, or similar program.
• High level of proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat), and MS Office required.
• Provide a portfolio of experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Member of/or involvement with SEGD and/or AIGA.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SketchUp, Revit, or Rhino.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new construction, renovation, and adaptive reuse. Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector clients; local communities; and our planet. DLR Group is 100 percent employee-owned and fully supports the initiatives and goals of the 2030 Challenge and is an initial signatory to the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

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We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.