Wayfinding Design Jobs in Chicago, IL (NOW HIRING)

Career Area:
Marketing
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Experiential Art Director
Ironworks • In-House Creative Agency for Caterpillar Inc.
Job Summary:
Ironworks is the in-house creative agency for Caterpillar Inc., and we're looking for an Experiential Art Director to design the spaces and experiences that immerse people in our brand. This is a role for someone who loves working in three dimensions, shaping everything from permanent environments to live, one-of-a-kind experiences around the world. Wherever people encounter Caterpillar in person, you'll help decide what they see, feel, and remember.
You blend the sensibility of an interior designer, the craft of a graphic designer, and the vision of an experiential art director, and you're just as comfortable specifying materials and finishes as you are creating a distinctive visual identity for a live event or designing the content that plays across a two-story video wall. If you love turning spaces into stories and you've got a portfolio that proves it, we'd love to meet you.
What You Will Do:

• Design immersive, on-brand environments and experiences, from permanent interior spaces to live, temporary activations.
• Create distinctive visual identities that give each space or experience its own point of view while staying unmistakably on-brand.
• Lead environmental and interior graphic design: signage, wayfinding, murals, dimensional elements, and architectural branding.
• Shape the full journey through a space, deciding how form, function, materials, and moments come together to tell a story and move people.
• Develop multimedia content that lives inside these experiences, including motion and video-wall content designed for the display and the room around it.
• Partner with architects, fabricators, event producers, and production teams on locations, specifications, and the details that make an install or activation shine.
• Use audience and brand insights to guide your aesthetic and experiential choices.
• Translate designs into highly detailed and accurate print ready files.
• Own comprehensive design and build plans, from first concept through fabrication, installation, and, when it's a live experience, show day.
• Travel to sites to art-direct execution and make sure the finished space or experience matches the vision.
• Present your thinking clearly and persuasively, whether you're with the internal team or in front of a client.
• Juggle multiple complex projects at once, holding a high creative bar and a sharp eye for detail under tight timelines.
• Help build a culture of collaboration with your creative peers, account partners, production teams, and clients.

What You Will Have:
Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Creativity: Knowledge of the approaches, tools, and techniques for promoting creative, original thinking and ability to apply it to a variety of business situations.
Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Vendor/Supplier Management: Knowledge of external provider management processes and ability to effectively manage the business relationship with external providers (e.g. vendors, service providers, contractors, consultants and suppliers).
Promotion and Marketing Communications: Knowledge of different promotional and marketing communication techniques; ability to use different marketing channels and tools in combination to focus on how a business communicates a message to the market.
What you'll bring:

• A strong creative point of view and the ability to think conceptually, not just execute.
• Real range across disciplines: environmental and interior graphics, spatial design, and experiential design, with an instinct for how people move through and feel a space.
• The ability to craft a distinctive visual identity for an experience and carry it consistently across every surface, screen, and moment.
• Fluency in brand: you know how to bring a brand's voice, look, and message to life, whether it's built to last for years or to shine for a single event.
• Comfort working alongside architects, fabricators, and production partners, with a working understanding of how designs come together in the real world.
• Sharp communication and presentation skills, so you can explain the "why" behind your work and win buy-in.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach that makes the people around you better.
• Deep command of Adobe Creative Cloud, and enough comfort with Microsoft Office to hold your own.

What'll make you stand out

• A portfolio that shows range and craft across environmental, interior, and experiential work, including both permanent spaces and live experiences.
• Hands-on art direction or senior-level design experience, in-house or at an agency.
• Experience designing for large-format digital, video walls, or other in-space multimedia.
• A bachelor's degree in design or a related field, or equivalent experience that speaks for itself.
• A track record of thriving in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

What you'll get
Join a Fortune 100 leader and build your career on a global stage. At Ironworks, you'll work with emerging technologies, sharpen your craft, and do work that genuinely matters, all in an inclusive environment where your ideas and passions have room to grow. Come make an impact with us.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we've helped customers build a better, more sustainable world, and we're committed to contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
Summary Pay Range:
$97,530.00 - $146,290.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
August 7, 2026 - August 14, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.