Director, Store Design

About the Role

As a Director of Store Design, you will be responsible for leading design process and managing both internal and external teams in delivering key initiatives for store design and brand experience. You bring creative solutions through design talent, brand knowledge, retail design knowledge balanced with Gap Inc. business strategies. This position reports to the Sr. Director, Design and Creative Services.

This is a dynamic lead role responsible for store design, fostering a creative process, guide decision-making, shaping brand experience, cross-functional relationships and design strategy.

What You'll Do

• A design champion and brand liaison leading store environments ensuring solutions provided are brand appropriate. Oversee store design development for multiple brands.
• Develop store design concepts and solutions that merges brand and enterprise’s goals and strategies
• Foster an environment that encourages innovative ideas, concepts and ideation, empowering the internal and external team to explore and drive creativity
• Collaborate and work directly with Gap Inc. Business partners (Sr. Leadership, Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Operations, Architecture & Engineering, Tech Services, and Real Estate).
• Support internal business partners intake of brand goals, requirements, criteria as a foundation and ensure that they are thoughtfully incorporated into the overall store design
• Management of team and process, including direct reports business partners and consultants to ensure the creative intent, design results are achieved
• Oversee the process throughout all phases from concept to construction for various scaled projects ensuring integrity of design intent and brand goals
• Accountable for the design process management and adherence of established project budgets and timelines

Who You Are

(SketchUp, Rhino, VRay, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite and Miro). Ability to diagram, sketch, prepare layouts, 3D visualization, massing studies.

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