Architect / Brand Designer Job (Irvine, CA, US)

Taco Bell, a part of Yum! Brands, has been repeatedly named as one of the Best Places to Work in Orange County. We have high standards for ourselves; Yum commits to consistently deliver 10% EPS growth each year. Our success comes from the belief that our people's capabilities are our greatest asset, and investing in you is our top priority.

Yum! Brands, Inc. is the world's largest restaurant company with more than 38,000 restaurants in over 100 countries and territories and more than 850,000 employees worldwide. We are the leading restaurant retailer in many emerging markets. Our restaurant brands -- KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell -- are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories respectively.

Taco Bell is expanding its reach through Global Development and is seeking talented design leaders who are interested in driving the creation of store concepts from ideation to execution.

Our team members are passionate, driven designers who are motivated to develop unique and brand centric concepts that support and bring to life the Brand voice of Taco Bell. If you are interested in innovating and elevating our Global customer experience through executable store designs, we would like to talk to you.

You will posses a strong design skill set and understanding of issues related to Retail / Interior / Environmental /Architectural design within a diverse, holistic design perspective; and be self motivated, proactive and passionate.

This job contributes to Taco Bell’s success by creating outstanding design solutions that support the vision of a cross functional team to deliver a successful branded customer experience and by meeting design, cost, schedule, and operational requirements.

This job contributes to the sustainability of the current store imagery and the growth of international presence through design enhancements as well as the creation of new store concepts and the integration of new strategic initiatives that will come to life within the restaurant environment.

Job Responsibilities:

- Creates conceptual designs for new and existing buildings and contributes to the execution process with establishing deliverables that help to communicate the design direction to leadership and execution partners.
- Integrates concepts from varied disciplines within the organization that come to life within the store environment.
- Support Concept teams understanding of local regions to support local relevance and design adaptations.
- Participate in regional Know how building, travel as needed for project execution support
- Review/ Approve design adaptations and assurance of brand standards including equipment layouts, signage, and Imaging
- Develops and supports internal/ external communications and presentations through the development of imagery and copy.
- Develops and maintains design guide integrating best practices of material sourcing, pricing and procurement.
- Work directly with Franchise business units to ensure consistent execution of brand standards and to promote self sufficiency in overall design.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams and other key stakeholders to meet project objectives. (Key example ?partners with Engineering to understand Operational back of house flow, kitchen equipment dependency and overall efficiency.)