Wayfinding Specialist

Toole Design

Madison, WI

Expired: over a month ago Applications are no longer accepted.

Full-Time

Job Description

Wayfinding Specialist

Toole Design Group in Madison, WI is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Wayfinding Specialist. Do you have a strong background in wayfinding, signage or experiential design? Are you passionate about helping people navigate while walking, biking, taking transit or using trails? Have you helped your sign designs go from concept, to bid, to installation? If so, please consider joining our Madison team.

This Wayfinding Specialist position with a focus on design, fabrication, and implementation of wayfinding systems earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, a health savings account (HSA), and a flexible spending account (FSA). We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firm specializing in multimodal transportation. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States and Canada. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects and engineers are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race or gender. We have been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Every project our employees deliver directly and positively affects our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Wayfinding Specialist

You are joining our growing wayfinding team, expanding our service in new directions, and leading projects across North America. You mentor and share your knowledge with our urban designers, planners, engineers, and graphic design specialists working on wayfinding systems for a wide range of contexts: community wayfinding for small towns, sidewalks in downtown urban settings, signature trail branding projects, campus or park wayfinding, and gateway design. You develop sign families and wayfinding protocols based on user-centered design principles, feedback from community engagement, and interaction with the physical environment. Your sign concepts include a variety of materials, construction methods, and millwork or signage construction standards.

You use programs such as Adobe Creative Suite and CADD to create design intent concepts, as well as construction document details and submittals to share with fabricators or sign installation contractors.

You pitch in as needed on other urban design, planning, graphic design, and placemaking projects , and are encouraged to explore and grow your interests in designing places for walking, biking, and taking transit.

You help pursue new projects in your home region as well as across our North American offices. Your job can sometimes be challenging, but you get to work with a close-knit team that is passionate about the work and the communities that you serve.

Qualifications of a Wayfinding Specialist:

Bachelor's degree in a design related field preferred (Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Architecture, Interior Design, Environmental Graphic Design)
With relevant experience, technical certification and/or a relevant associates degree may be commensurate for a bachelor's degree
5-10 years of relevant experience
2+ years of experience serving in a project or design management role
5 years minimum of signage or experiential design experience
Strong design sensibility and ability to visualize ideas in both 2 and 3 dimensions.
Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and other digital tools

Other Desired Experience:

Hands-on experience with sign fabrication or installation of outdoor wayfinding signs and structures is strongly preferred.
Experience with AutoCAD, Sketchup, or other 3D modeling software experience is desired.
Familiarity with GIS software such as QGIS or ArcGIS a plus.
Experience with digital wayfinding a plus

You'll be great here if:

You enjoy participating in multi-disciplinary teams on a broad range of projects
You believe that feedback and review is essential to producing high-quality work products and growing your own skills
You have strong communication skills, whether written, verbal, or graphically
You can build relationships, bring enthusiasm to exciting projects, and are detail oriented with strong problem-solving skills

Work Schedule for a Wayfinding Design Specialist

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home 2-3 days per week.

The Madison office of Toole Design is conveniently located just off the Capitol Square, one block from State Street's bike friendly transit corridor and easily accessible by the Madison Metro bus system. The office is easily accessed on foot, by bicycle, and via transit.

Ready to Join our Madison Team?

We understand your time is valuable, so we have a quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this Wayfinding Design Specialist position, please fill out our application by clicking on the link on this page.

At Toole Design, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

We're proud that about half of our managers are women and we are committed to achieving racial diversity in our leadership as well. Toole Design is a woman-owned business and an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).

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