Design Director

Wellness

• Business ThinkPlace
• Date 15 October 2021
• Location sydney,NSW
• Salary TBA
• Application close date 21 November 2021

Are you ThinkPlace's next Design Director?
 
If this job advert caught your attention, ​we think ThinkPlace would too!​
 
We work at the crossroad of social change and design. We engage with the complexity and the messiness of real human experiences — how people live, work and play; how people experience products, services or regulations; how they navigate systems they interact with. We tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges using design-led, human-centred approaches.
 
As we step into an exciting future, we have two new positions available to lead our Sydney and Melbourne studios. If the requirements below haven't ticked all your boxes, please don't rule yourself out just yet. We want to see your whole self, not just what you are on paper. Diversity for us is beyond a manifesto, we celebrate it.
 
​If you think you have what it takes, hit that apply button!
 
​The Role
 
We have two roles - A Design Director/Practice Lead to join our Sydney or Melbourne studio. Bring your creative design capability to create social impact at scale.
 
You will be joining researchers, ethnographers, experience designers, digital designers, visual communicators and place-makers to lead teams and deliver projects with governments, businesses, NGOs and communities.
 
 
We want someone that will embrace the team, grow and support them to take leaps in their career. With a capability to use design in ways to reframe and address complex challenges.
 
 
In this role you will:​
 

• Define challenges with clients; lead proposal development
• Support and lead client projects
• Lead and challenge design methodologies to tackle the challenge at hand
• Supporting team’s growth and taking on new challenges
• Support and accelerate emerging designers’ career pathways

Some of the challenges our team is taking on are:​
 

• Customer centric design tackling challenges within the spaces of public health, climate change, circular economy, equality and resilience.
• Support a range of clients across private sector and Government to design better experiences, services, policies, business and operating models for better outcomes
• Combine research, storytelling and complex visualisation to bring a collaborative, empathetic and inclusive approach to catalysing change. Use behaviour insights and design strategies to scale up sustainable programs for wider adoption

Culture & Benefits
 
The ThinkPlace culture is unique. Our people are the most important aspect of our business. Culture is created by each and every one of us, every day. We are genuine, optimistic, credible, open, respectful and have integrity that leads to trust. ​
 
To be more specific:
 

• When we say autonomy, we mean it. ThinkPlace gives our people true agency. You will be able to make calls and decisions without having to jump through bureaucratic hoops or go through steep hierarchies
• We have a fun, flexible, highly collaborative work environment and offer flexibility of work arrangements for our people
• We have several diversity and inclusion initiatives underway, including a GE&I council
• Our team is diverse across age, gender, and race and we are very proud of that
• Profit share pay – for all eligible employees with ThinkPlace, you will receive an annual payment. This payment is shared equally amongst the team
• We prioritise our team's mental health, with all employees having free access to our Employee Assistance Program for confidential counselling and wellbeing services. We are always looking for opportunities to further support our team in this space, an example of this is a current initiative to provide a year’s worth of access to Headspace to help support our team through the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic
• High Performance Coach - at ThinkPlace we have an incredible inhouse High-Performance Coach who is available to all team members for 1:1 coaching sessions, wellbeing support and career pathway planning. Our High-Performance Coach, John Fowlie, was an Olympic level coach at the Australian Institute of Sport where his athletes won nine Olympic medals including five gold

Our Interview Process
 

• Send us a cover letter outlining why you want to apply for this role and a CV with your experience/achievements
• Screening call with our People team
• A take-home assignment that you will present back to the team
• A zoom interview to present the assignment to a panel consisting of members of our ThinkPlace leadership team

Applications close COB Thursday 21st October
 

Apply now