Fathom Studio is looking to add a talented Junior Experiential Graphic Designer to our team.
Fathom Studio is an interdisciplinary design firm dedicated to transforming the built environment into meaningful, human-centred spaces. Established in 1996, we have grown into a collective of 48 professionals specializing in planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, branding, and wayfinding.
Fathom’s approach is rooted in the belief that great public projects are built through collaboration across disciplines, across scales, and with the communities they serve. As Atlantic Canada’s only fully interdisciplinary design studio, we bring together architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and Experiential Graphic Design under one roof. This structure allows us to begin each project not with isolated tasks, but with integrated thinking.
The Junior Experiential Graphic Designer (EGD) supports the development and delivery of experiential graphic design solutions that enhance the identity, navigation, and user experience of built environments. Working collaboratively with designers and multidisciplinary project teams, the role contributes to the development of EGD concepts, graphic layouts, design drawings, mock-ups, elevations, and renderings.
Designing and collaborating: Working with other designers to create and test EGD design concepts, including mock-ups, elevations, and renderings. Producing graphic design layouts. Developing design drawings. You will have the opportunity to work with and learn from architects, landscape architects, planners, and engineers in our office, as well as a range of contractors and fabricators that we partner with.
Advising: Providing comprehensive advice to clients on EGD best practices.
Experiencing: Doing site visits and analyses plans and drawings, assess current conditions and envisions a desired future state. Bringing your own daily experience of spaces and places to bear on your designs and recommendations.
This position requires a university degree in a relevant design discipline, such as graphic design, industrial design, or architecture.
You appreciate the world of signs, and the challenges of communicating with the public in real environments like parks, hospitals, and residential buildings.
Goal-seeking: You can balance and achieve client-defined goals for design, including cost, accessibility, durability, appearance, and function.
Open: You’re curious and open-minded to different design approaches that may suffice.
System-oriented: You’re able to develop, test, and implement design systems for wayfinding and interpretive projects.
Resourceful: You have a willingness to admit that you don’t have all the answers. Knowing who to talk to, or where to seek useful and up-to-date information to achieve your project goals or solve a problem.
Project-awareness: You manage your time and resources to work with others and complete deliverables on time and on budget. Can judge when “pie in the sky” thinking is warranted, and when it’s best to resolve details. You’re not a perfectionist.
Sympathetic: Understands a wide-range of user types and can design for them.
Communicator: You can bring together written, spoken, and visual language to communicate your ideas. You can bring together the spatial, visual, and communication dimensions in all of your designs.
This full-time position has the salary range of $50,000 to $65,000.
As this is an entry level position, experience in experiential graphic design is an asset but is not required.
InDesign and Illustrator: You’ll be creating design documents in Adobe InDesign, sign designs in Illustrator.
SignAgent: Sign programs will be managed in SignAgent, a cloud-based database which helps us and our clients review and adjust sign locations for interiors and exteriors.
Modeling: Signs may be 3D modelled in SketchUp or Rhino.
Because we believe design is better when it’s collaborative, curious, and accountable.
At Fathom Studio, you’ll work in an environment where ideas are shared openly, play and experimentation are encouraged, and every team member takes ownership of their work. We value clear communication, strong relationships, and real collaboration across disciplines, across experience levels, and with our clients.
We design with intention, pushing innovation to create meaningful, lasting impact. We stay curious, ask better questions, and challenge assumptions to shape spaces that matter.
If you’re driven by purpose, energized by teamwork, and excited to grow while contributing to work that reflects real values, Fathom is a place to do your best work.
Health benefits: Group insurance including support for specialists, telemedicine, and a health spending account
Professional development: Ongoing training and learning opportunities
Summer hours: Reduced working hours during summer months
Collaborative culture: Real teamwork, access to mentors
Project variety: Residential, Institutional, And Cultural projects of all scales
Prime location: In the heart of downtown Dartmouth
Vibrant office life: Social and sports activities covered by Fathom
To learn more about our studio visit https://fathomstudio.ca
As an equal opportunity employer committed to meeting the needs of a multigenerational and multicultural workforce, Fathom Studio recognizes that a diverse staff, reflective of our community, is an integral and welcome part of a successful and ethical business. We hire talented individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability, and actively foster inclusion in all forms.
Fathom Studio welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Please submit a PDF that includes a cover letter, resume and portfolio to [email protected]. In the email’s subject line, please write your name and the job title (Junior Experiential Graphic Designer). Deadline to apply is September 17, 2026.
We thank all candidates for their interest. Only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.
