Director of Design

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $117k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Mendocino Farms

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏨 Hospitality

👥 B2C

Food & Beverage • Hospitality • B2C

Mendocino Farms is a fast-casual restaurant and catering company that creates elevated sandwiches, salads and globally inspired comfort dishes. Founded in 2005, it emphasizes memorable culinary experiences, community engagement and convenient ordering — including catering, group ordering, delivery/pickup, an app and eClub. The brand positions itself around high-quality, made-to-order menu items and full-service catering for groups and events.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop internal designers and external design resources • Align internal and external design resources to the development pipeline • Serve as the senior design leader for complex, high-visibility, or high-risk projects and decisions • Own and evolve Mendo’s restaurant prototype, design standards, material palettes, finishes, furniture, fixtures, lighting, equipment integration, and reusable design details • Ensure restaurants deliver a recognizable Mendo experience while adapting to site conditions, market needs, and business priorities • Set and elevate Mendo’s creative design point of view • Maintain and evolve design standards supporting guest flow, ordering and pickup, digital and delivery activity, seating, accessibility, storage, serviceability, and operations • Partner with Operations, Culinary, Facilities, Construction, and equipment vendors to improve kitchen planning, back-of-house flow, equipment integration, ergonomics, throughput, food safety, and maintainability • Incorporate post-opening learning into future layouts, prototypes, and specifications • Oversee design delivery for new restaurants, remodels, and refresh programs from feasibility test fits and concepts through permit-ready documentation and construction support • Establish design QA/QC and phase-gate practices • Lead cross-functional reviews and translate stakeholder input into clear direction • Partner with Construction to protect design intent, improve constructability, and reduce rework, RFIs, and change orders • Select, brief, manage, and evaluate architects, interior designers, engineers, and specialty vendors • Make value-engineering recommendations and balance brand expression, operating performance, durability, cost, schedule, and long-term unit economics • Track design-function performance, capacity, risks, and priorities • Develop the annual design operating plan with Real Estate and provide regular updates on design delivery

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in restaurant, retail, hospitality, architecture, interior design, or another related built-environment discipline • Experience leading a design team, studio, function, or substantial network of external design partners in a fast-moving, multi-project environment • Significant hands-on experience with restaurant or similarly operationally intensive commercial design, including prototype development, new-unit growth, remodels, and site-specific adaptation • Strong command of restaurant operations and design, including FOH/BOH flow, kitchen equipment, labor and ergonomics, guest circulation and accessibility, pickup/delivery, food safety, storage, and maintainability • Experience managing architects, interior designers, engineers, and specialty vendors against quality, schedule, scope, and budget expectations • Working knowledge of construction documentation, design QA/QC, permitting, building and health codes, design detailing, accessibility, shop-drawing review, and constructability • Financial fluency with design budgets, cost drivers, value engineering, specification tradeoffs, lifecycle durability, and unit economics • Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Environmental Design, Product Design, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered • Proficiency with Bluebeam Revu, Excel, PowerPoint, and project-management platforms • Ability to travel occasionally for market visits, project milestones, and team meetings • Must be able to lift 25 pounds • Sitting / standing 6-8 hours • Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling • Work requires bending, twisting, squatting and reaching

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Meal privileges • Health benefits • 401k Plan • Paid Vacation