Job Description
Your Role at Raising Cane’s:
The Design Manager is responsible for the execution of design strategies by developing, adapting, and implementing design standards for restaurants. This role requires developing expertise in architecture, engineering, and interior design while ensuring compliance with state and local regulations, company brand standards, and industry best practices.
Your Impact and Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with the Property Development team, outsourced architects, and consultants to produce construction documents for new and franchised restaurant locations
- Ensures construction documents align with company’s design objectives, architectural standards, and quality standards while maintaining brand integrity
- Provides creative direction to architects for custom or unique site conditions, including overall site planning and interior layouts for conversions of existing buildings and non-traditional projects
- Develops innovative design solutions for space planning, construction details, material selection, and branded storefronts
- Serves as a subject matter expert, supporting current technical needs and requirements to the overall development program assuring best in class designs
- Communicates design solutions using company-specified presentation formats and industry standard design tools such as AutoCAD, Bluebeam, SketchUp, Photoshop, and InDesign
- Reports on project progress and integrates analytics, lessons learned, and best practices to continuously refine design standards