Design Manager- Existing Fleet Innovations

Design Manager
- Existing Fleet Innovations

In Places, we don’t sit back and let things happen, we make things happen, and we do this in service to all Apple employees and customers. Our team is a diverse and nimble group that manages Apple’s retail stores, workplaces, and workplace services. We develop and manage Apple’s global real estate portfolio, lead all related capital construction projects, provide outstanding facilities and site services, develop and lead sustainability initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of all Apple facilities, including commute and renewable energy programs, and do everything we can to ensure the health and safety of all Apple personnel, facilities, and customers in our facilities around the world.

We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continuously reimagining our products and practices to help people do what they love in new ways. That innovation is inspired by a shared commitment to great work and to each other. Learning from our people here means we're learning from the best! The Retail Design & Innovation team create and care for Apple Stores that look, feel, and function as beautifully as our products.

We do this by obsessing over the employee and customer experience, and driving a global strategy that sets the bar.

Existing Fleet Innovations group will focus on ensuring our current stores worldwide, across all Vintages, are well positioned to serve the changing needs of our customers and our store teams.

We will analyze, research, and create key new architectural components and compelling design solutions in the complete store environment including both sales areas and backstage environments.

Your key primary goal will be to Innovate and drive design options and design deliverables with input from our cross functional partners at Real Estate & Development to generate efficient, thoughtful, and relevant solutions for our existing fleet of store in a timely manner.

Description

The Design Manager will create, document, and manage design solutions for ongoing upgrades and revisions to the exiting fleet of stores worldwide. You'll engage directly with Real Estate, Development, Preservation, Facilities partners and all internal cross functional Places Team disciplines to generate efficient, thoughtful, and relevant design solutions for the exiting fleet of stores.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative design concepts for specific architectural components, systems, details and create work product for internal approval reviews

• Directly manage diverse team of external Architectural and Engineering consultants and vendors to create and maintain documentation and work product that will inform the prototypical documentation used across all existing store projects

• Collaborate on individual design initiatives and find innovative strategies to streamline and assist incorporation into Retail Standards

• Understand and interpret local and international building codes, integrating comprehensive design solutions that are compliant with local and or international building codes

• Work directly with Places team members consisting of teams from Real Estate, Development, Preservation, Facilities, and Pre-Construction experts

• Work cross-functionally with internal Apple groups outside of your team to integrate new initiatives for exiting stores worldwide

• Contribute to strategic thinking and innovative development of improvements for exiting store designs across all existing store types

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of architecture and construction industry experience.

• Ability to travel up to 10 % domestic and international

• Professional degree in architecture or construction management.

• Working knowledge of CAD, Sketch Up, Rhino 3D, BIM tools and strategies.

• Ability to plan, schedule, coordinate, and finalize projects effectively and independently.

• Excellent communication skills and experience building strong working relationships across business groups and key stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional licensure preferred.

• Strong knowledge of common construction methods, materials, and practices.

• Ability to express ideas and concepts by freehand…