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

Job title

Principal, Environmental Design

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$118,400 - $155,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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