Principal, Environmental Design
United States Department of Defense
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $118,400 - $155,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people.
- Lead and mentor the creative team, fostering a collaborative, optimistic, and proactive culture.
- Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client, putting the team and client first.
- Define and implement successful design strategies, setting high visual and conceptual standards for all company efforts (including retail and narrative storytelling campaigns).
- Generate strategic insights and moodboards to facilitate creative innovation.
- Drive complex digital projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring the team's deliverables exceed client expectations and stay within budget and deadlines.
- Establish project direction, craft guidelines, and assist with production as needed.
- Identify key client decision-makers and leverage excellent interpersonal skills to grow and maintain these relationships, collaborating across all internal departments and external stakeholders to achieve desired results.
- Actively contribute to the design discipline through mentoring, conversation, and proposing ideas to elevate company operations and improve processes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of proven experience in environmental and visual design work for leading brands, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Mastery of Figma (including components, variants, and auto layout) and familiarity with essential collaboration tools (e.g., Hubspot, Google Suite, Slack).
- Proficiency in SketchUp and Rhino.
- Strong knowledge and experience in visual design, environmental design, and brand development. Experience developing and maintaining a robust design system.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic vision and creative inspiration to large, diverse teams.
- Excellent public speaking and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex information to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Highly detail-oriented, proactive, comfortable navigating complex organizations, and focused on strategic problem-solving and process efficiency.
Benefits
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401K plan, plus matching
- PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
environmental designvisual designbrand developmentdesign systemFigmaSketchUpRhinostrategic visioncreative inspirationproject management
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationinterpersonal skillspublic speakingpresentation skillsdetail-orientedproactivestrategic problem-solvingprocess efficiency
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in DesignBachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts