Senior Manager, Design
M Plus Museum Limited
Full Time
Hong Kong,
Reporting to the Head, Exhibition & Displays, the Senior Manager, Design works alongside the Exhibition Management and Installation & Displays teams to deliver an ambitious program of special exhibitions and collection displays.
You will be responsible for:
- leading the development of collection and exhibition gallery design, including but not limited to spatial planning, graphic design, wayfinding, exhibition architecture, and display furniture;
- understanding and interpreting the ambition of each of the projects and its curatorial vision and translating it into a spatial design that provides a distinctive, site-specific, design language;
- ensuring that a visitor centred experience is at the heart of all display design incorporating efficient visitor flow, proper health & safety and risk assessment analysis in every project, whilst achieving the adequate balance between display accessibility and collection care requirements;
- ensuring adequate support is provided from the design perspective to exhibition and collection displays project planning, including but not limited to providing project management and coordination with external designers and relevant museum colleagues to realise international museum requirements;
- leading the procurement strategy to support construction bids and engage external contractors and designers to implement the project;
- establishing and managing relationships with suppliers and contractors, overseeing the quality and accuracy of the work, monitoring schedules, and meeting budgetary goals;
- managing and nurturing a team of designers to ensure efficient distribution of workloads and responsibilities and providing leadership for the development of adequate workflows within the area;
- delivering exhibition graphic materials for all exhibitions that suit the museum’s mission of fostering exceptional contemporary design while meeting museum standards;
- ensuring that the M+ exhibition guidelines are followed consistently across all exhibitions, making M+ an accessible and visitor focused museum. Regularly conduct reviews of these standards to allow them to evolve along with our audience; and
- collaborating with other departments to ensure that the M+ brand guidelines are followed consistently in outward facing communication materials.
You should:
- possess a recognised university degree, preferably in architecture, industrial design, exhibition design or equivalent;
- have at least 10 years of working experience in exhibition design / industrial design / graphic design, preferably in a museum or arts and cultural institution;
- be experienced in multiple phases of the design process including conceptualisation, design development, presentation, both joinery and graphic production and construction supervision;
- have a strong background in project and budget management, ensuring project delivery on time and on budget;
- have ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines;
- have a strong knowledge of materials, fabrication techniques, project management, building regulations and construction processes;
- be experienced with museum grade conservation materials used in fabrication of displays and knowledge of graphic production would be desirable;
- experienced with the display methods, requirement and restrictions of art objects in all mediums, including digital and audio/visual installations;
- be experienced in leading a diverse team and mentoring junior designers;
- have good communication and interpersonal skills; and
- have strong verbal and written communication skills in English; Chinese will be an advantage.
Closing date
25/01/2025
Notes
For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV on or before 10 Dec 2024. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until post is filled.
Data collected will only be used for job application processing. Your data may be accessed by our appointed recruitment consultants who have agreed to keep confidence of all personal data in not less than the standards applicable to us. Applicants not being invited for interview within 4 weeks from the submission date may assume their applications unsuccessful.
All related information will be kept up to 24 months and all personal data will be destroyed afterwards.
For more information, please visit https://www.westkowloon.hk or contact: Louise Yeung /+852 22003722
About the authors & contributors
M Plus Museum Limited
M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Located in Hong Kong’s WestK, we are one of the leading museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world. The museum reflects our unique time and place, building on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.
