Sr. Designer

Your Role at Pivot

Your Role at Pivot As a Senior Designer, you will be responsible for applying Pivot’s creative expertise and design services to support new and existing clients. You will work alongside a team of dynamic, creative workplace designers, practicing high standards for design, providing a high level of customer satisfaction, and serving as a collaborative member of a dynamic project team including sales, project management, and procurement support.

In addition to leading project design, you will partner closely with sales executives to support new business development efforts - participating in pitch strategies, co-creating presentation materials, and joining client meetings to help win new opportunities. You will engage customers and industry influencers in forward-thinking discussions and workshops to solve strategic challenges within their organizations and use your creativity, skills, and expertise to influence, persuade and shape others’ perceptions and beliefs about design and how physical space can improve people’s lives.

Additional Responsibilities

• Drive project solutions and customer experience to new levels both in terms of engagement and business development, but also in terms of innovative, tailored solutions.
• Partner with sales executives in early-stage client engagement efforts by providing creative direction, design input for proposals and RFP responses, and representing design strategy in sales presentations and discovery meetings.
• Incorporate and execute creative design strategies.
• Establish and manage design project budgets, project scope, and contracts, and coordinate deliverables with internal and outsourced design resources.
• Navigate customer and industry partner interactions with ease, clearly articulating design ideas and rationale for decisions and outcomes.
• Proactively identify project risks, offering creative solutions and alternatives; work independently to execute next steps, and evaluate results.
• Participate in ongoing learning around strategic areas of focus, including partner products and solutions, sustainable design, design tools and technology, and workplace strategy.
• Proactively champion designs operational excellence by implementing established design processes and documentation standards; manage and record billable hours, cultivate efficiencies, and reduce errors.
• Demonstrate excellent time management skills and flexibility; effectively and confidently address competing priorities and urgent situations, making sound decisions in short timeframes with appropriate action.
• Mentor and train design team members.

Supervisory Responsibility

This job has no direct supervisory responsibilities, but the position may require supervision of junior design staff members and contractors as project requirements dictate.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations, Immunization Records

No.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The physical environment is consistent with most professional service organizations. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.