Associate Creative Director, Restaurant & Experiential Design

Wonder

Wonder

Design
New York, NY, USA
USD 187k-187k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 17, 2025

About Us

Imagine: 30 unique restaurants to order from, brought to your door in under 30 minutes. That’s what our customers experience.

At Wonder, we want to make world-class food within reach, no matter where you live. That’s why we’ve created a vertically integrated, new standard of dining that will allow you to enjoy menus from award-winning chefs and iconic restaurants across the country, all in one place. Our elevated brick + mortar locations will offer pick up and dine in options, as well as delivery to your home.

As a food-tech startup backed by top-tier venture capitalists and led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs—including some of the most accomplished leaders in the technology, culinary, and logistics industries—we’re growing. Join us in pioneering a new category of dining called “Fast-Fine”, and revolutionizing the way people eat.

About the role

Wonder is on the hunt of a multi-faceted creative director to bring our brand to life via interior and architectural design in our restaurants, workspaces, and events. Reporting to our VP of Creative, you will partner with closely with fellow creative leads across brand and marketing design, copywriting, and photography. This is a highly cross-functional role, which will require strong communications and collaboration skills with leaders across Events/PR, Store Operations, Real Estate, Culinary, and Growth Marketing teams.

Specific responsibilities include:

  • Lead translation of our brand identity into restaurant layout design, fabrication, and finishes.

  • Develop scalable design systems by restaurant type to enable fast, efficient physical builds.

  • Inform signage needs and seasonal expression via partnership with brand marketing creative.

  • Strengthen partnerships with external vendors for fixture and furnishing design.

  • Drive creative output for special events, like store openings, partnership activations, and interactive sponsorships.

The experience you have

  • 10+ years of experience as a hands-on creative leader, outputting work and managing internal and external resources.

  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders at all levels.

  • A background in architectural design, commercial interior design, or large scale event design is required.

  • An arsenal of agency partners and vendors at the ready to support your ability to make quick progress against goals.

Base Salary

$187,000

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.

A final note

At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens. We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.