
Graphic Designer I - Signage & Wayfinding - 2026 Graduate
Populous 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The role involves creating impactful signage and wayfinding design systems for high-profile national and international clients across various markets, conceptualizing designs that utilize typography, brand, and 3D form to ensure clear communication and easy navigation. Responsibilities also include managing construction documents from concept through fabrication and installation, and researching user-centered wayfinding systems for complex places.
Responsibilities
- Create impactful signage and wayfinding design systems for high-profile national and international client brands
- Conceptualize and design signage systems that celebrate typography, brand, and 3D form to clearly communicate information and make navigation easy
- Through close collaboration with clients, discover opportunities to amplify the character of a place, conveying the brand’s identity in imaginative and compelling ways within venues and facilities
- Collaborate with graphic designers, wayfinding planners, detailers, interior designers, and architects
- Manage construction documents and large bodies of information for projects from concept through fabrication and install
- Research, design, and implementation of user-centered wayfinding systems for complex places that make navigation easy
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design
- Exceptional branding and experiential graphic design sensibilities
- Demonstrates the ability to push innovation, solve problems creatively and engage in a dynamic collaborative design environment
- Detail-oriented, learns quickly and adapts to new responsibilities
- Understands how to read architectural plans, elevations, and details
- Proven experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and staying on schedule
- Desire to work collaboratively with architects, interior designers, and planners
- Strong work ethic, with demonstrated efficiency, flexibility, and a positive spirit
- Strong communication and presentation abilities
- High level of proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat), and MS Office
Benefits
- Professional & Personal Development Programs
- Summer Hours
- Hybrid Schedule
- Paid Licensure & Certifications Exams
- Wedding Pay
- Charitable Match Program
- Market Leading Wellness Health and Welfare Benefits
Key Skills
About Populous
Populous is a global design firm that designs places where people love to be together. The company has designed and delivered some of the world's most memorable civic, sports, and entertainment buildings.
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