Regional Design Technology Lead, Creative Editor

Description

Gensler is a global architecture and design firm grounded in the belief that design strategy optimizes business performance and human potential. Our 5,000+ practitioners networked across 46 offices use global perspective and local presence to innovate at every scale. Whether we are refreshing a retailer's brand, planning a new urban district, or designing a super tall building, we strive to make the everyday places people occupy more inspiring, more resilient, and more impactful.

Placed at the heart of Gensler's People + Process + Technology, the Firmwide Design Technology Studio drives the firm's digital transformation of our creative and project delivery practices throughout the globe. Our ultimate outcome is to co-create a design technology ecosystem that enables our practitioners to leverage the most advanced methodologies and technological solutions reaching a new level of creativity and delivering the most impactful designs to our clients. So, if you are a disruptive technologist that's ready to change the world with big and impactful ideas, we want you to join our growing and innovative team!

Your Role

The Regional Design Technology Lead, Creative Editor is a multifaceted role focused on advancing the future of architectural visual storytelling. This position brings together video editing, motion graphics, cinematic production, and AI-driven filmmaking to transform design ideas into engaging visual narratives for internal teams, clients, and regional initiatives. You will craft films, animated graphics, presentations, and AI-assisted architectural stories that communicate design intent with clarity, emotion, and impact. With a strong eye for composition, rhythm, typography, color, sound, and cinematic pacing, you will combine creative direction with hands-on production skills. Working closely with designers, technologists, and project teams, you will help shape a new standard for how architecture, design technology, and human experience are expressed through moving image, motion, and emerging media tools.

Professional Traits

• You are a strong visual storyteller with a refined sense of pacing, composition, sound, and emotional impact.
• You bring creative judgement and attention to detail to every stage of the edit, from concept through final delivery.
• You collaborate well with creative designers, directors, writers, and technologists to shape a cohesive narrative.
• You communicate ideas clearly, welcome constructive feedback, and translate stakeholder input into stronger creative work.
• You stay organised under pressure, manage multiple edits and deadlines, and maintain quality across changing priorities.
• You understand brand, tone, and audience, and apply them consistently across client-facing films and media.
• You are curious, resourceful, and open to new filmmaking techniques and emerging tools that improve the creative process.
  
  

What You Will Do

• Edit and produce compelling films and media for client projects, Design Technology initiatives, presentations, and intellectual property.
• Enhance video through graphics, subtitles, motion design, animation, color correction, sound design, and audio balancing.
• Collaborate with content managers, writers, designers, and videographers to develop concepts, edit plans, storyboards, and visual narratives.
• Partner with project teams to translate design ideas, technology, and workflows into clear, engaging visual stories.
• Apply consistent standards for branding, messaging, tone, visual style, music, sound effects, and licensed content.
• Explore emerging tools, creative formats, industry trends, and competitors work to propose new approaches and production tests.
• Incorporate feedback from stakeholders, partner teams, and external vendors while maintaining creative quality and delivery timelines.
• Optimize video files, thumbnails, titles, and exports for client presentations, playback quality, and efficient delivery.
• Organize video assets, project files, and exports for efficient collaboration, reuse, and archiving.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines, communicating clearly about progress, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Build regional production workflows and deliver training in visual storytelling, generative AI, video editing, motion graphics, photography, and sound design.
  
  

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication, Media Production, Film, or a related field; experience in architectural filmmaking or the building industry is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in video editing, filmmaking, multimedia design, or visual storytelling, with a strong portfolio or showreel demonstrating end-to-end edits.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and related post-production tools, with a strong background in video editing, motion graphics, color grading, compositing, and cinematic workflows.
• Experience with generative AI and AI-assisted media tools such as RunDiffusion, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, NBPro, Kling, Flux, Suno.ai, and ElevenLabs.
• Strong understanding of pacing, visual storytelling, composition, typography, color, and motion design.
• Familiarity with sound design fundamentals, including sound effects, dialogue cleanup, music selection, voice balancing, and audio mixing.
• Ability to collaborate with designers, Design Directors, subject matter experts, and technologists to integrate storytelling into design and media workflows.
• Knowledge of advanced filmmaking techniques, including shot planning, camera movement, lens selection, lighting, green-screen production, multicamera workflows, and creative direction.
• Ability to develop training materials, deliver workshops, and support design teams.
  
  

Additional Skills

• Experience with photography and film production techniques, including physical cameras for interviews, studio shoots, and drone cinematography.
• Experience with digital content creation tools such as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, or Blender.
• Experience integrating visualization outputs with BIM and computational design workflows using Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, and Dynamo.
• Experience integrating visual effects and procedural motion graphics created using Houdini, TouchDesigner, and other compositing tools, including particle systems, simulations, tracking, keying, and layered compositing.
  
  

Applications we work with

• Video Editing, Motion Graphics & Compositing – Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Frame.io
• Generative AI Media Tools – RunDiffusion, Stable Diffusion, NBPro, Kling, Flux, Suno.ai, ElevenLabs
• Sound Design – Audacity, Adobe Audition
• Photography & Filmmaking – DSLR/Mirrorless Cameras, Drone Cameras
• Collaboration – Miro, MS Teams
• Graphics & Productivity – Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
  
  

Life at Gensler

As a people-first organization, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From internal design competitions to research grants 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 and wellness programs. We also offer profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities.

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.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

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