Summary
Join CannonDesign as a Regional Design Director and lead a team of 150-300 design professionals across multiple offices. Transform design excellence by overseeing design quality, conducting design reviews, and securing design awards. Nurture a collaborative design community, mentor future leaders, and champion Living-Centered Design. Transform the design team by fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, recruiting and retaining talent, and ensuring high-performing teams. Transform the organization by contributing to regional growth plans, achieving financial targets, and supporting firm-wide design aspirations. Success will be measured by regional and firm-wide performance metrics.
Requirements
- Demonstrate design talent through a design portfolio of significant built and unbuilt work
- Have third party recognition of your work as a lead designer by local, regional, and national design awards programs and recognized design publications or digital platforms
- Possess strong communication skills; communicate complex ideas in a compelling manner
- Be a leading voice in firm-wide meetings and events
- Provide inspirational leadership to your region
- Have the ability to manage a diverse team of creatives
- Forge a strong sense of connection and identity among the regional design leaders
- Be comfortable with basic managerial skills: hiring, design management and creative operations, and resource allocation
- Possess general fluency in regional and firm business metrics
- Understand how to translate the strategic framework into regional growth goals
- Contribute leadership skills in concert with the Regional Director in the development and execution of a regional strategy
- Demonstrate the ability and aptitude for innovative design solutions
- Be driven to challenge the status quo and find new solutions
- Support a culture of collaboration, transparency, safety and trust
- Take a collaborative approach to understanding organizational problems
- Recruit, retain and grow mid-career design talent to be senior design leaders for the region and the firm
- Empower design leaders in your region to build high-performance teams, to delegate effectively within their offices and nurture future leaders
- Possess a passion for understanding our business and the business of our clients and seek continuous improvement for both
- Contribute to leading a region that supports the firm’s financial success
- Define our design brand through excellence in the region’s work
- Partner with the Regional Director to selectively curate the work we pursue or are called upon to do and build a culture of clients for life over commodity work
- Have a Bachelor’s or master’s degree in architecture
- Have at least 20 years of related experience in design leadership roles or equivalent
- Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience leading others in a design studio or design practice segment
- Have strong oral presentation and storytelling skills
- Be able to understand and execute business strategy
- Have professional acumen and maturity demonstrated by the ability to communicate authentically and respectfully
- Be able to travel
Responsibilities
- Oversee and lead creative and innovative excellence in a specific geographic area
- Be accountable for design excellence and overall design quality across the region
- Conduct regular touchpoints with senior and other design leaders
- Hold virtual and in-person regional design-standard reviews
- Provide oversight of regional third-party recognition, including publication of projects
- Lead the region in submitting and winning design awards
- Be a leading voice for how our Living-Centered Design ethos is translated through our work with clients
- Partner with marketing and communications teams to build strong narratives and communicate the impact of our work at a regional level
- Represent the Firm externally at regional events, conferences, and broader events
- Write, speak and communicate externally through 3-5 venues annually
- Work with the Executive and communications teams annually to identify strategic placement / speaking opportunities
- Share the responsibilities of senior design leaders, leading select clients to innovative design concepts
- Deliver solutions uniquely responsive to an expanded view of design impact
- Lead design presentations, with an emphasis on storytelling and aiding client understanding of the design
- Capture and communicate key client goals and metrics and how our design solutions add value
- Nurture a community of designers in your region
- Set the standard for an environment that exemplifies collaboration, experimentation, innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship
- Partner with the Executive Director of Design in the recruitment of and retention of senior design leaders
- Hold senior design leaders in your region accountable for the mentorship and growth of the next generation of design leaders
- Ensure high-performance design teams are functioning in all offices in the region, and coordinate with the Regional Director, Regional Practice Director and Office Practice Leaders to fill creative talent gaps
- Be an ambassador with your regional leadership team of our brand, responsible for demonstrating how our Living-Centered Design ethos comes to life in our culture and in the way we partner with clients, and in our work
- Be the leading regional voice for the firm’s design aspiration to be one of the most innovative, creative, and highly regarded impact-driven solutions design firms in the world
- Be an integral part of the regional leadership team and ensure that our design aspirations are considered in regional and firm business goals
- Be a key participant in the definition and execution of a strategic regional growth plan
- Partner in your regional leadership team and engage with others in the firm, office, and market leadership to develop and implement a business plan
- Be responsible for engaging senior design leaders within your region as appropriate to participate in the process, take ownership, communicate, and champion the initiatives set forth
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in architecture from an accredited program
- Current US Architectural Registration
- Additional accreditation and/or training relevant to this role, including LEED
- Design portfolio of significant built and unbuilt work. Third party recognition of your work as a lead or supporting design role by local, regional, or national design awards programs and recognized design publications or digital platforms
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible spending account options
- Voluntary insurances
- Paid time off
- Flex-time schedules
- Remote work options
- 401k plan
- Employee perk programs
- Discretionary bonuses
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