Workplace Design Lead

1 Month ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Workplace Design Lead is responsible for leading a team of design managers to deliver exceptional workplaces that inspire Apple team members. This role involves establishing aesthetic consistency, creating new design languages, and envisioning how Apple can integrate new technologies and ideas to evolve its brand. The lead will collaborate with architects and design professionals to apply aesthetic rigor, instill Apple's values, and bridge the work of Places with other Apple teams like Industrial Design, Product Design, and Marketing. Key responsibilities include collaborating with divisions to deliver designs embodying Apple's brand, evolving space and interior designs, managing furniture, graphics, and accessories, and driving design innovation for the future of Workplace Design. The role also involves integrating innovative architectural elements, directing global team activities, managing planning, staffing, budget, and expenses, promoting collaboration, presenting design ideas to leadership, staying updated on industry trends, and coordinating major projects. The lead will also mentor design managers and cultivate succession plans.

Must have:

Lead design managers for best-in-class workplaces
Establish aesthetic consistency and develop new design languages
Integrate new technologies and ideas to evolve Apple's brand
Partner with construction teams to apply aesthetic rigor
Instill Apple's values in workplaces
Collaborate with Apple divisions for design delivery
Evolve Apple's spaces and interiors design language
Manage furniture, graphics, and accessories
Drive design innovation for workplace design
Integrate innovative architectural elements
Direct activities of a global team
Manage planning, staffing, budget, and expenses
Promote collaboration and communication
Develop and present design ideas to leadership
Stay updated on industry trends and best practices
Coordinate design of major projects
Lead and mentor design managers
Create and cultivate succession plans

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Job Details

The Workplace Design Lead is responsible for leading a team of design managers tasked with seamlessly delivering best-in-class workplaces that inspire and enable all Apple team members to do their life’s best work. You will play an integral role in establishing aesthetic consistency where appropriate, assist in the creation of a new aesthetic language where needed, and continually develop a vision for how Apple can integrate new technologies and ideas to evolve its brand. Along with their peer groups across Places, the Workplace Design Lead is responsible for managing the team of architects and design professionals who partner with our development and construction teams to apply aesthetic rigor and instill the values that are synonymous with Apple culture, products, and services to our workplaces, bridging the work of Places with the work of many other teams within Apple, including Industrial Design, HID, Product Design, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Live Events, Corporate Events, and Marketing + Communication. Some key responsibilities include: - Collaborate with all Apple divisions to develop, communicate, and deliver designs that embody Apple’s brand, core ideals and values, and guide the greater Places team and vendors for implementation - Continually push the designs of Apple’s spaces + interiors, manage furniture, graphics and accessories - Evolve our design language, driving design innovation and setting a plan for the future of Workplace Design. Integrate innovative architectural elements and features to enhance the overall design, performance, and functionality of facilities - Direct and control the activities of a broad functional area across our global team, has overall control of planning, staﬃng, budget, expenses priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods for their department - As part of the Workplace Design Senior Management team, promote collaboration and communication - eﬀectively develop and present design ideas regularly to Apple leadership - Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in architectural design and interiors to drive continuous improvement and innovation spearhead innovation initiatives within our organization - Directly coordinate the design of all major projects, and lead and mentor a team of exceptional design managers who will oversee the design of all other Apple workplaces - Create and cultivate succession plans, training the next generation of Design Leaders on the Workplace Design Team