Workplace Design Manager

1 week ago

Austin, United States UPLIFT Desk Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Job Description

The Workplace Design Manager will play a critical role in overseeing a team of talented designers, ensuring their work is both innovative and strategically aligned with our company’s sales and business goals. As the Workplace Design Manager, you will be responsible for leading the design process from concept to completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. Your role will be key in translating customer needs into actionable design plans while leading your team to deliver exceptional service. Collaborating closely with sales, marketing, and product development teams, the Workplace Design Manager will drive initiatives that enhance the customer experience and strengthen our brand presence.

Required Qualifications

  • Proven experience in a leadership role within workplace design, interior design, or architecture.
  • Strong ability to create customer-centric office layouts that blend functionality and creativity.
  • Ability to balance creativity with strategic thinking, aligning design work with business goals.
  • Excellent project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing timelines.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively present design ideas.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in office space planning and office furniture specification.
  • Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Architecture, or a related field. Relevant certifications or advanced degrees are a plus.
  • Familiarity with issues of compliance for state and federal regulations, such as ADA and IBC codes.
  • Extensive experience with modular furniture design, specification and installation plans.
  • Familiarity with industry-specific design software (Configura CET, AutoCAD, Revit layouts, etc.).

What You’ll Do

  • Develop 2D and 3D office space plans, including furniture layouts, traffic flow, and material finishes, aligning with customer expectations.
  • Collaborate directly with customers and sales reps to gather critical project information, ensuring the design team has everything needed.
  • Review and approve design proposals, ensuring they meet both aesthetic and functional requirements while maintaining high quality.
  • Coordinate projects from start to finish, including setting timelines, managing resources, and tracking progress to ensure on-time delivery.
  • Lead, mentor and provide creative direction to a team of workplace designers, encouraging innovative and sustainable design solutions.
  • Manage recruitment, training, and performance evaluations ensuring all team members have what they need to excel within their role.
  • Develop and implement strategies to improve the design process, continuously enhancing both creativity and operational efficiency.
  • Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to develop design strategies that attract and convert potential clients.
  • Ensure all design projects are strategically aligned with the company’s sales initiatives and contribute to achieving broader business goals.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in workplace design and integrate these insights into the team’s work.

Benefits

  • A merit-based environment that rewards growth and accomplishment regardless of seniority
  • Generous paid time off
  • 4% 401K company matching with instant vesting (after one year)
  • Excellent group health insurance available to employees and dependents, including domestic partners (4 medical plans, 2 dental plans, and a vision plan to choose from)
  • Flexible spending account (FSA) for health care and child care costs
  • Company-paid & Supplementary Life Insurance; Long-term & Short-term disability
  • Free UPLIFT Desk (after one year)
  • 50% discount on all UPLIFT products
  • Free healthy (and not so healthy) snacks and drinks
  • On-the-job training and skills development
  • A supportive and engaging work culture that promotes healthy living

Position Details

  • Compensation: DOE
  • Type: Full-time
  • Employee Status: Regular
  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm, 40 hours per week
  • Location: Austin, Texas

About UPLIFT Desk

As a fast growing, mid-sized Direct To Consumer (DTC) brand company, it’s our mission to deliver sincere, world-class customer service. We provide optimally designed, quality office solutions to customers. We focus on happier & healthier customers and employees

UPLIFT Desk has revolutionized the way people shop for office furniture. It all starts with our award winning UPLIFT Standing Desk, made even better when accessorized with our entire UPLIFT office furniture line. Our product line includes most furniture an office could need. We design office products that optimize customers’ comfort, health, and productivity. Our Product Development team focuses on designing the highest quality ergonomic office furniture. Then our Content team's ecommerce website offers customers the ability to configure products specifically to their needs. Our amazing Order Processing and Warehouse teams make sure we have inventory and ship orders the same day. Customers receive award winning support from our Sales and Customer Service and Warranty teams. We offer the best 15 year warranty in the business Our Interior Design and Contract Sales teams specialize in large office furniture layouts for commercial buildings that serve most Fortune 500 companies.

Award winning UPLIFT Desk is loved globally

  • Rated Best Standing Desk by New York Times Wirecutter 5 years in a row
  • Hundreds of thousands of happy customers around the world sit and stand at an UPLIFT Desk
  • Google reviews - 4.9 rating with thousands of reviews

We value our environment:

  • We plant 5 new trees in U.S. National Forests for every solid wood desk sold. By partnering with the National Forest Foundation, we're able to plant tens of thousands of new trees each year
  • Solar powered operations: Our Austin facilities produce over a megawatt of electricity through roof-mounted solar panels on three large warehouses
  • We use sustainable materials in our products. Some examples are:
  • Bamboo Desktops, Drawers, & Motion Boards: The world's fastest-growing plant, Moso bamboo is a grass that grows as quickly as an inch an hour
  • Eco Curve Desktops: Eco Curve desktops use 100% recycled MDF and have the lowest carbon footprint in the industry due to not using edgebanding, backer boards, adhesives, or solvents
  • Rubberwood Desktops: Pará rubber trees produce 99% of the world's natural rubber latex. The rubber production lifespan of these trees is exhausted after about 25-30 years. Our rubberwood desktops give the trees a second life

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)

UPLIFT Desk believes in building an organization whose staff reflects the true diversity of our community. We hire, promote, and reward employees based on results and professional performance. UPLIFT Desk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, creed, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, partnership status, ancestry, disability, or veteran status.

To all recruitment agencies: We do not accept agency resumes. UPLIFT Desk is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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