Product Designer - Junior - NY

Your Role

Great product design starts with great insights—and at Gensler, those insights are powered by a broad, cross-disciplinary perspective shaped by work across virtually every market sector and geographic region. As a Product Designer within Gensler’s Product Practice you will collaborate with strategists, designers, and manufacturing partners to create innovative products for the built environment.

This is a hands-on industrial design role (not UI/UX) that spans the full product development lifecycle, from research, visioning, and concept generation through design development, prototyping, validation, and launch, leveraging emerging technologies, new materials, and evolving user needs to deliver commercially successful products and exceptional user experiences.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative products and solutions for the built environment, including furniture, lighting, wall systems, flooring, and architectural hardware.
• Conduct market, user, and competitive research to identify opportunities and inform product strategy.
• Participate in design charrettes, innovation workshops, and stakeholder reviews to shape product concepts and direction.
• Create and communicate design ideas through sketches, renderings, 3D models, prototypes, presentations, and technical documentation.
• Evaluate concepts for aesthetics, performance, ergonomics, sustainability, code compliance, manufacturability, and cost.
• Research and specify materials, finishes, colors, and manufacturing processes.
• Develop and review mock-ups, prototypes, and production samples to refine and validate product solutions.
• Present concepts and recommendations to clients and project stakeholders.
• Explore emerging technologies, visualization tools, computational design methods, and prototyping techniques to advance product innovation.

Your Qualifications

• Completion of your undergraduate study or graduate study in Industrial Design, Environmental Design or similar object-based education platform.
• 1 - 5 years of relevant product design experience
• High proficiency level of Solidworks along with rendering skills (Keyshot preferred)
• Experience and interest in AI visualization platforms such as Nano Banana is required.
• Experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Strong skills in 3D modeling, prototyping, and material exploration.
• Ability to create or interpret technical drawings, fabrication details, and assembly diagrams.
• Hands-on skills in model making, digital fabrication (CNC, laser cutting), or 3D printing are a plus.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies, including generative AI and computational processes, XR/VR/AR for product visualization, parametric design tools, and material innovation and sustainable fabrication methods.
• Revit proficiency a plus
• Project management experience a plus

Your Additional Characteristics

• You're insatiable in your drive to find solutions to problems presented to you.
• You welcome intellectual challenges and new market exposure.
• Team player with demonstrated leadership experience in school or community environments.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize tasks.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication abilities.
• Strong desire to conduct research both verbally and in writing.
• Resourceful, self-motivated, and excited to collaborate.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• A bold thinker with a passion for experimentation and iterative design.
• Artistic storytelling and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly articulate design intent.
• Curiosity and critical thinking around technology's role in the future of design.
• *The base salary range will be estimated between $70,000 to $80,000. Gensler’s total compensation package is multi-layered and includes a base salary, two annual bonuses paid in December and June. To learn more about our compensation philosophy and full benefits offerings, please visit Great People, Great Rewards | Gensler **

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 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.

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 and local law.

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