Head of Design

**Job Title**: Head of Design

**Type**:Full-Time, Permanent

**Location**:Toronto (Hybrid)

**Company Overview**

For over 20 years, Envision has been at the forefront of innovative thinking and ground-breaking ideas by integrating design, delivery and technology solutions for many of the best-known brands. Our unique service offering enables us to seamlessly integrate design and technology into built concepts that enhance the way people connect and interact with their environment, creating memorable user interactions and experiences.

As a team, we continuously seek new and innovative ways to grow our business. Our agile, high energy culture rewards top performance and the contributions of those passionate about our collective growth and success. We are incredibly proud of the team we have built and are looking for like-minded individuals to help us in our growth trajectory.

As an organization, we live and breathe our core values which are Creativity, Collaboration, Commitment and Community. These values are essential in our mission to provide quality products and innovative solutions to our customers in an evolving market. Our pursuit of excellence will continuously define our leadership within the industry.

**Summary of Position**

**Roles & Responsibilities**
- Responsible for the creative output of design and to consistently achieve our ‘gold standard’ quality.
- Provide a clear design vision and process to ensure all expectations are aligned with other business units, ensuring delivery to our client on time and on budget.
- Provide creative leadership to our design team by continuously advancing our design acumen.
- Oversee all creative initiatives and activities within the design studio.
- Ensure that the structure and allocation of resources in the design studio matches the requirements of the company and our clients.
- Ensure the Design team understand the impact of their solutions, considerations and decisions.
- Create an atmosphere of a comradery, collaboration and accountability among the design team.
- Encourage synergy between all departments with the goal of providing high standard design solutions.
- Collaborate with other department leaders to identify and mitigate any project process bottlenecks that inhibit success of a client project.
- Establish clear expectations and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the design team.
- Build consensus and a shared sense of ownership in the creation of design solutions.
- Encourage freedom among Senior Designers to generate their own ideas and perspectives on projects and utilize their skills and experience to run them effectively.
- Mentor junior designers, so that methodologies and processes can be cross pollinated, to create well rounded designers for the future and not carbon copies of a single person, attitude or perspective.
- Create a pool of external freelance talent to address specific design criteria to allow the company to handle a high volume of work.
- Ensure that the Design team can complete ad-hoc tasks and contribute creatively as required.
- Work with internal teams to generate new innovative ideas and solutions for our business, encouraging future success and growth.
- Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time, in line with the role, competencies and skills.

**Qualifications & Skills Required**
- 15+ years of experience working in industrial, retail, or architectural design required.
- 8+ years’ people management experience required.
- A portfolio which demonstrates various creatives and execution of fixture design, brand representation and experiential design.
- Comfortable leading design presentations to C-suite clients and stakeholders.
- Compelling design skills. Ability to visualize ideas in both 2 and 3 dimensions.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and ability to recognize and respond to changing business and industry trends and priorities.
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to analyze and understand business performance and to think objectively, interpreting meaningful themes from quantitative and qualitative data.
- Ability to be ‘commercially-sensitive’ when evaluating financial and business indicators and translating data into actionable information to drive improved results.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills with the ability to communicate with executives and frontline employees.
- Ability to build constructive and effective relationships with colleagues and diverse groups of partners.
- Must have proficiency in 2d and 3d design software (i.e. SolidWorks, Adobe CC, Keyshot, Autodesk)
- Must have proficient computer productivity skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, Outlook).
- Experience working in a small to medium sized B2B organization delivering products or services to large organizations in Canada considered an asset.

**What We Offer**
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