Senior Signage & Interior Designer – Enterprise Marketing from A-Line Staffing Solutions

Title: Senior Signage & Interior Designer – Enterprise Marketing

Location: Johnston, RI or Westwood, MA

Rate: $50/hr

This is an 8-month Contract-to-Permanent Opportunity

Note: This is a contract on W2, and is NOT open to C2C

Description:

The Senior Signage & Interior Designer will be part of a creative and innovative team within the Enterprise Marketing organization on the Brand team. The candidate is responsible for the development and implementation of interior design, exterior signage design, and environmental branding of our retail and office spaces and ATM network. The Designer will drive the vision for our brand design efforts by creating attractive, branded environments that support the desired customer experience for different locations, including advisory branches, wealth centers, and other new formats.

The candidate will collaborate with a broad team of internal partners throughout the pre-design, test fit, design development, construction, and post-construction phases, working closely with stakeholders, architects, and suppliers to create design schemes that bring our brand to life in our physical network. This artful combination of décor finishes, and branding will support spaces that are highly flexible, functional, warm, and welcoming for prospects and customers, and lay the foundation for memorable and valuable experiences that are delivered by our Citizens colleagues.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop, evolve, document, and maintain design standards for interior construction, architectural/interior finishes, lighting, environmental graphics, materials, and furniture to carry out our design intent. Review construction drawings, specifications, and technical details to ensure that elements are coordinated within design documents, to meet interior approved décor package standards.
• Design and execute exterior signage and trade dress concepts to support the transformation of our retail branch and ATM network. Review engineer drawings, control drawings and prototypes and manage vendors to execute successfully in terms of quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop décor, signage and environmental playbooks / architectural guidelines based on a variety of tiered budgetary alternatives and branch format types. Review design budgets, materials, and value engineering to ensure standards coincide with branch format business case.
• Responsible for tracking and managing multiple projects on a daily basis and communicating effectively with project team and supplier, including production schedules, scopes of work, contracts, invoicing, renderings, prototypes and samples.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate with suppliers, internal and external partners to assist with approving design documents, floor plans / brand books while also resolving project design, budget issues.
• Partner with internal Facilities team to ensure standardization across all retail sites, through renovations and ongoing maintenance requests
• Evaluate finished projects and prototype designs to understand key learnings, recommend strategy, and design development adjustments and apply value engineering to gain cost saving efficiencies. Leverage stakeholder and customer feedback to assess project effectiveness.
• Ensure all design concepts and completed projects amplify our brand and are consistent with our brand design standards, Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, compliance requirements, zoning, landlord, and municipality requirements.
• Possess a true passion for interior design and environmental branding, continuously examining and building a working knowledge of trends, new materials, and design executions. Test and learn through innovative new design approaches.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years in architecture, interior design, or retail industry with a focus on design
• Portfolio of interior architecture or interior design accomplishments
• Strong influencing, negotiating, and presentation skills
• Possess thought leadership ability and a continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to build strong partnerships with peers, internal partners, suppliers, and leaders, collaborating to drive business objectives, strategy, and financial performance
• Lead and manage multiple complex and overlapping design projects with tight timelines in an extremely fast-paced environment
• Proficient in interpreting construction documents (e.g., architectural, structural, finish plans, lighting) with a critical eye toward architectural design challenges and opportunities
• Experience with developing strong design presentations, successfully selling in concepts and influencing at all levels of the organization in support of design strategy and objectives
• Proven experience using AutoCad, Microsoft, and Photoshop to develop and present design concepts and bring vision and ideas to life through drawings, elevations and renderings
• Travel as required (approximately 15% - 20%) to perform site visits and inspections of completed work, and facilitate the resolution of punch list items.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or Interior Design