Signage Wayfinding Designer Global Workplace Design Construction WDC

The Global Design team is looking for a creative innovative resultsoriented designer with experience leading the design of Signage and Wayfinding systems for corporate workplace. This role will be based in Arlington VA and will be responsible for supporting the Global Design Team reporting to the Senior Manager Global Design. This role will support the Design teams across 3 global regions (AMER EMEA and APAC) and will work closely with the Design & Construction (D&C) team the Workplace Guidelines & Standards team and the Regional Portfolio Managers (RPM) team.

This role will be responsible for managing updating and evolving the Signage and Wayfinding Design System for Corporate Workplace including the development of new elements as needed to ensure standardization. The Signage and Wayfinding Designer will work to leverage the system as its been designed and evolve it asneeded for regional or new requirements in a way that ensures highquality deliverables and ontime delivery. Over time this role should gain familiarity with Amazons Global corporate workplace portfolio in order to ensure that the elements of the signage and wayfinding system are applicable regionally. This role will also work with the Workplace Guidelines & Standards team and the Design & Construction Delivery teams though the role is not responsible for updating the Guidelines &Standards nor for Delivery of the final signage elements.

The successful candidate has experience in design of signage and wayfinding for corporate workplace including education and experience in design of signage and wayfinding system deep knowledge of industry benchmarks and the ability to evaluate potential solutions on the basis of aesthetic and budget specific knowledge. The successful candidate will be able to communicate clearly about the design of the signage and wayfinding system at all levels and yet is not afraid to dive deep into details and is able to design certain elements independently if required. This role works autonomously and creatively in a fastpaced ambiguous environment and will be working on multiple projects most of which have very tight delivery timelines. Attention to detail and ability to inspect issues and processes brings simplified solutions to complex problems is paramount. The candidate must be able to balance frugality with creativity in offering solutions and approach problemsolving with an emphasis on root cause.

This role supports our Global team so may requires travel approximately 10 of the time.


Key job responsibilities
With the support of Workplace Design & Construction Teams maintain the Signage and Wayfinding Design System for Amazons Corporate Workplace including assessing design requirements of any new request updating the design of individual elements proposing root updates and communicating the design rationale of any changes.
Collaborate with GREF partner teams including Regional Portfolio Management Sustainability and Environmental Health and Safety and Travel and Events to ensure the system meets all requirements and improve the quality of Amazon workspace with a focus on resiliency efficiency health and safety.
Routinely connect to external industry professional bodies and communities ensuring new industry standards best practices technology and innovations are adopted into the program.


About the team
The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team provides real estate transaction expertise business partnering space and occupancy planning capital investment program management facility maintenance and operations in more than 60 countries. GREF is organized into three pillars: Regional Portfolio Management Global Centers of Enablement and Global Centers of Expertise. Workplace Design and Construction sits within the Global Centers of Excellence and includes the disciplines of Global Design Workplace Guidelines Business Development Global Integrated Facilities Management and regional Design and Construction (D&C) delivery.

The Global Design team owns the design of GREF spaces shaping design concepts that align with GREFs strategic vision and the GREF Workplace Design Style Guide while enhancing employee wellbeing. Ultimately this team defines spaces that best support the way Amazonians work. The teams Concept Designers develop foundational concepts for each space typeheadcount floors Centers of Energy Food and Beverage Meetings and Events and other specialty spacesthat are in line with foundational design principles. The regional Design Managers ensure that GREF design concepts and standards are seamlessly integrated into new projects and renovations.

The Workplace Guidelines team owns the creation implementation and ongoing refinement of Amazons Global Workplace Design Guidelines and Standards ensuring regional teams have comprehensive documentation to support delivering and refreshing spaces that best support how Amazonians work in the office. This team includes global furniture fixture and equipment (FF&E) development and implementation as well as signage and wayfinding guidelines and standards.

Bachelors degree in Visual Design Graphic Design Art Architecture (or related professional experience in a design role).
5 years of design experience in design of signage and wayfinding for corporate workplace demonstrating ability to lead design for a signage and wayfinding system for a large corporate workplace portfolio.
Must provide a portfolio for review

Proven decision making and problemsolving capabilities with strong follow up skills and attention to detail.
Excellent oral and written communication skills with exceptional ability to translate ideas and thoughts into written documents.
Continuous learning mindset and commitment to staying uptodate with industry trends and best practices.
Experience escalating issues and anticipating and making hard tradeoffs between business and customer need.
Able to build constructive and effective relationships and use them to maneuver through complex situations.

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