Sr. Director, Design; Construction

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Job Summary

The Sr. Director, Design leads the design process for all Specialty and Restaurant brands and shall provide strategic leadership to the Design team and the broader organization to ensure all brands’ prototypes, creative assets, and new designs are aligned to brand requirements with thoughtful consideration to all the relative attributes and needs for high volume rollouts. This position oversees the design team's efforts to ensure they create innovative and striking designs that satisfy one individual Brands' design criteria and operational standards.

This leader will also direct production of test-fits and concept design activity for all brands. They will actively partner with Chief Brand Officers and brand leads, as well as, monitor and hold accountable the team’s progress towards set goals.

• Strategic Alignment and Execution
• Directing activity of design team in completing production of test-fit and concept designs to meet strategic Development team goals.
• Collaborate and chair with brand leadership, interpreting brand design evolutions and direct team activity to accomplish said design alternatives.
• Directing the activities of design team, construction, Brand operational leadership, external architects and external engineers to further develop restaurant designs into scalable prototype documents for franchisee use, strategically aligned to the GoTo Foods development programs and goals.
• Creates tools and direction for the team to ensure that design and construction projects conform to uniform quality, schedule and budget requirements while complying with federal, state and local regulatory agency-required codes and guidelines.
• Leads efforts to align drawing and design quality across prototype & site adapt architects, consultants, and engineers. Protecting brand requirements while delivering highest quality up to date technical information. Creating measurements and holding said consultants accountable to deliverables.
• Continuously developing the team to be effective influencers to the franchisees and project stakeholders.
• Leads schedule improvements and reduces creative and production work timelines through driving efficiency and new technology while delivering regular status reports to prioritize, expedite, and follow-up on requests and issues to ensure timely completion and documentation of projects in strategic alignment to delivering GoTo Foods stated development goals.
• Provides strategic guidance and support with project planning, negotiations, scheduling and implementation to the team, brands, and leadership.
• Creation of a defined design process to deliver an improved measurable delivery of production and concept design activity across all brands.
• Partnership Management:
  Partners with Real Estate and Operations teams to define priorities and resourcing needed to effectively support design initiatives.
• Works with Real Estate team in support of optimizing locations for new development.
• Collaborates intensely with Brand leads to learn the evolution of the Brand design requirements related to Marketing, Operational changes, consumer acceptance, and appeal factors to keep building designs updated with all recent adaptations.
• Collaborates with Supply Chain to identify, vet, and assess vendors against quality, cost effectiveness, timeliness and other key metrics; works with vendors to identify new approaches and/or improve effectiveness, as needed.
• Collaborates with Leasing/Sales team on ways to solve special challenges and to develop innovative ways to express the Brands.
• Builds and Directs a High Functioning Team, holds others accountable for conducting business in a legal and ethical manner while complying with policies, laws, and regulations.
• Oversees people processes and programs across the team to ensure talent for current and future needs by providing operational, functional, and technical leadership.
• Attracts, retains, and develops highly effective professionals and support team.
• Cultivates a bench of leadership and talent to deliver results and support future growth.
• Determines work methods and directs the work of the design…