Store Designer
Company: Leap
Location: New York
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionAbout Leap:Leap is building the world's largest
network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems and
scale. The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work
in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced
cost and risk. Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to
life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven
operations. At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the
opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands
with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the
country. We're one of the fastest growing companies in the
retail/ecommerce space - since launch we've powered stores for
dozens of brands, and we're adding more brands and stores each
week.Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to
lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people
are literally at the core of our product. Our organization is
composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams. With
functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail
Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data
Science, we're a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and
core values tightly align and drive us to succeed. Our staff are
what make our organization so special and honoring our culture and
values as we hire, onboard, engage, develop and support our teams
is paramount.Come take this leap with us. Your ideas, thinking, and
voice are wanted.This role:The Store Designer is the internal store
designer for stores on the Leap platform, working across our stores
and brands to bring compelling, immersive brand experiences to
life. In this role you'll design compelling brand experiences
within our customizable frameworks and support our project managers
in our agile build process to ensure each store is built on time
and on budget. Brand stores powered by Leap complement our brands'
ecommerce experiences by enabling customers to discover and connect
with products and people in real life; thus, in this role you'll
leverage Leap's store design approach and systems (i.e. space
planning and functional store elements) while learning what makes
each brand's core value proposition sing. Key responsibilities:
- Support Real Estate team during store location evaluation and
lease negotiations by reviewing sites and relevant deal terms.
- Lead store concept design and layout / space planning and
produce designs and schematic drawings to gain approval from brand
customers and internal stakeholders e.g. Retail Ops, Technology and
Finance team members.
- Support PMs in preparing and managing budgets and schedules for
store builds.
- Support PMs in preparing and managing bid sets and procurement
processes for store builds.
- Prepare and manage packages for contractors and other
vendors.
- Proactively coordinate communications amongst internal
stakeholders and brand customers during design and build
processes.
- Manage to approval shop drawings from all FF&E vendors
- Support PMs for on-site build management (contractors and other
vendors, and setup/configuration of visual merchandising, lighting
and other store elements key to customer and employee experience)
and resolve issues in the field to ensure delivery on time and on
budget while maintaining quality.
- Coordinate store turnover and punchlist completion for design
items with Retail Operations and Brand Management team
members.
- Support PMs to manage close out packages including budget vs
actuals reporting, as-built modeling and inspections.
- Manage and further develop Leap's FF&E system
- Support windows and all store's window displays designsKey
competencies & attributes for success:
- Track record of success managing the design and buildout of
stores focused on compelling customer experience and efficient
operations.
- 5+ years of experience in retail store design as a store
designer, interior designer, visual merchandising or events
designer.
- Ability to travel by car or plane to conduct site visits and
participate in on-site activities. Travel will be intermittent but
may be as high as 50% at times.Outcomes & measures of success:
- Successful project management of store design and build
workflows according to defined measures.
- Successful execution of store builds e.g. on-time, on-budget,
and maintaining quality.
- Successful collaboration with peers/stakeholders throughout the
organization.
- Contribution to the development of a team-oriented, high
performance culture within the company.**ADDING A PORTFOLIO IS A
MUSTHowever you identify, whatever your path to get here; Leap
celebrates diversity and is committed to maintaining a safe,
rewarding and inclusive environment where Leapers thrive
individually and as a team. In order to achieve our mission,
building the world's largest network of branded retail stores –
powered by data, systems and scale; we need to work hard to foster
a diverse community to support the brands and customers we serve.
These aren't just words, this is who we are. We know that our
differences are what make our organization special and are
paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual
orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status,
gender identity are valued.Thank you for your interest in this
opportunity! Unfortunately, due to the high volume of inquiries
received, we are not able to respond to all applicantsPowered by
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