2024-05-15
AppCast (https://www.appcast.io)
Other
/yr
full-time
employee
Pleasant Hill
California
94523
United States
Do you love working in evolving healthcare environments, developing wayfinding strategies, and guiding the patient journey? Are you driven to improve experiences through environmental graphic design and be seen as an industry-leading thought leader? Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and possess a passion for growth? If so, then we need to connect with you.
The GNU Group is aggressively looking for an experienced
Senior Designer/Planner
to lead the strategy, planning and execution of environmental branding, architectural signage, and wayfinding strategy for our clients. As a Senior Designer/Planner, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, leading the strategic planning and user experience for environmental branding, architectural signage, and wayfinding solutions for our clients. This critical position is a strategic leader at GNU Group and is a client-facing problem-solver who can develop strategy, direct design, lead clients, and drive key project deliverables.
A Senior Designer/Planner has the authority, responsibility, and accountability for strategy, user experience, wayfinding methodology and wayfinding masterplans.
While our preference is to have team members based in our Pleasant Hill office, we have adapted to a hybrid workforce and will consider remote positions for a candidate with the right qualifications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning:
Review work plans during the proposal phase, including project scope, approach, milestones, and key deliverables.
Participate in and lead internal planning sessions and design critiques.
Wayfinding Strategy & User Experience:
Develop comprehensive wayfinding strategies and design user-friendly wayfinding sign programs. Conduct wayfinding assessments, research user group behavior and concerns, identify circulation patterns, organize destinations, establish a hierarchy of information, and determine wayfinding language.
Client & Stakeholder Engagement:
Participate in and lead client reviews and work sessions and collaborate and interface with project stakeholders and partners.
Design Validation:
Iterate studies to evaluate design with the functional needs of the system. Identify functional and aesthetic factors that define design criteria, set operational and compliance parameters, and provide fabrication and installation scenarios.
Design Documentation:
Concept, design, document, and program critical signage and wayfinding components. Review the deliverables of others design documentation to ensure proper integration and alignment into the planning workflow.
Team Communication & Management:
Foster positive project team collaboration and a team culture where creative ideas are encouraged and implemented as appropriate. Communicate with clarity and purpose. Lead by example.
Thought Leadership:
Provide ongoing thought leadership on all projects. Share knowledge and lead training sessions for staff development.
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters degree in experiential design, graphic design, industrial design, or related field.
10+ years of experience in wayfinding, environmental branding, and architectural signage.
Ability to plan, document and execute project plans, including scope definition, project strategy, deliverable approach, and team engagement.
Ability to lead project teams and provide project direction.
Organized, with excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, time management, and risk management skills.
Proactive, flexible, team player with the confidence and integrity to earn client and internal team trust quickly.
Ability to adjust to dynamic project situations and respond accordingly.
Ability to read architectural and engineering plans.
Familiar with general contracting/architectural terminology and processes.
Familiar with construction platforms (Autodesk, Build, ProCore, BIM 360, etc.)
Excellent presentation, verbal, written and leadership skills.
Benefits:
Choice of select medical plans
Dental Plan
Vision Plan
Company paid holidays
Unlimited paid time-off (PTO)
Simple Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Plan with employer contribution (Matching up to 3%)
Flexible work environment
Great company culture centered on transparency, honest communication, prescribed process and personal responsibility.
About GNU Group:
The GNU Group (www.gnugroup.com) a division of Impec Grouphas a 50-year-plus history of impacting peoples livesfounded in our practice of design and creativity. Our multi-discipline studio employs a creative staff of professionals who provide planning, design and turnkey management for branding, environmental graphics, architectural signage, and wayfinding strategy. Our areas of project expertise span the healthcare, retail, corporate, hospitality and mixed-use sectors.
About Impec Group:
Since its founding in 1991, Impec Groups mission is to deliver human-centric workplace solutions based on clients needs in support of the lifecycle of the workplace. Impec Group started servicing the critical needs of the cleanrooms and electronic assemblies in Silicon Valley's hi-tech and life science sectors. Since then, our services have expanded to encompass strategy, CRE technology, project management, staffing, environmental branding and operations, and site services with the capability to deliver end-to-end solutionsnationally and globally.
Impec Group is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate in employment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.
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