Hybrid Principal, Environmental Design

at United States Department of Defense

• Job title: Principal, Environmental Design
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $118,400 - $155,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Principal, Environmental Design leading innovative designs for DEPT®, a Growth Invention company helping brands grow faster. Collaborating with creative teams to set new benchmarks in environmental design.

Responsibilities

• 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