Senior Designer/Planner

Position Overview

Impec Group focuses on enhancing the human experience within the workspace, encompassing collective well-being, safety, and health. Our mission is to facilitate success within the workplace industry through Innovation, Integration, and Integrity, helping individuals thrive. We aspire to think bigger, bolder, and delve deeper into built-environment solutions.

Impec Group is currently seeking a creative and strategic thinker to join our team as a Senior Designer/Planner at our office in Pleasant Hill, CA. As a Senior Designer/Planner, you will play a key role in shaping innovative solutions that redefine how people interact with their environments, contributing to our mission of enhancing workplace experiences through creative design and strategic planning. If you wish to contribute to a dynamic team, we encourage you to apply. Please submit your resume and cover letter outlining your interest and qualifications for this position. We look forward to hearing from you!

Pay Range $100-120k annual

Position Senior Designer/Planner

Schedule TBD

Primary Function of Position

The Senior Designer/Planner role is a senior-level position. 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 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.

Major 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.

Requirements

Qualifications

·       Bachelor’s or Master’s 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, 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.

·       Excellent presentation, verbal, written and leadership skills.

Performance Expectations

·       60-70% billable

Reporting

This position will report directly to the Director of Design.

Benefits

·       Choice of select medical plans

·       Dental Plan

·       Vision Plan

·       Holiday Pay

·       Simple Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Plan with employer contribution (matching up to 3%)

·       A great organizational culture centered on transparency, honest communication, prescribed process, and personal responsibility.

Employment authorization will be conducted via E-Verify within the first three days of employment.

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.