Interior Design Director

Description

• Sets the interior design direction for projects, ensuring alignment with client objectives, brand identity and project goals.
• Mentors staff to ensure their personal and professional development goals are met.
• Actively participates in studio marketing activities, to include all go/no-go decisions, go-to market interview strategy preparation, and has a leadership role at interviews.
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with key decision makers and influencers on client teams.
• Leads design teams, at all stages of the design process, in generating contemporary solutions that are sustainable and innovative responses to client needs.
• Partners with design teams to compose written and graphic presentations for clients, stakeholders and peer reviewers to include the choreography of internal design submittals for peer juried workshops and competitions.
• Provides guidance to project teams and conducts regular design and quality control reviews to ensure that the firm’s standards and design goals are being met.
• Keeps abreast of current developments, trends, and practices within the interiors discipline.
• Proactively engages in processes connecting to potential clients and brokers to vet potential projects, and works collaboratively to generate submittals required to identify and win work as the representative of the studio interior design practice.
• Participates in staffing and team organization and composition by helping to identify team members for project teams in alignment with client goals, team member skillsets, and aspirations.
• Leads, mentors, and inspires interior design teams to foster a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Engages with studio Design Director to request, organize and execute peer workshops at the appropriate point for each project.
• Collaborates with design teams to ensures all project information is up to date in HUB.
• Collaborates and cultivates strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and project teams to understand project requirements and develops innovative interior design solutions that meet functional, aesthetic, and financial objectives.
• Oversees the quality of the interior design process, product, and delivery for the interiors discipline.
• In partnership with the studio Design Director, provides visionary interiors design leadership by setting a clear direction for the studio’s interiors discipline, guiding teams in the creation of interior design concepts, and ensuring alignment with project goals and client expectations.
• Builds relationships with professional organizations and academic institutions.
• Advances the design culture of the firm at the local studio level, focusing on firmwide initiatives like DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), career development, and talent advancement.
• Participates in marketing, helping to strategize and win stand-alone and integrated work for the studio. Monitors, advises, reviews, and participates in marketing activities.
• Partners with local Talent Managers and studio leadership to identify, interview, recruit, and mentor interior design staff.
• Participates in project scope delineation, work plan creation and implementation, and fee negotiations for stand-alone and where appropriate, integrated interior design projects.

Requirements

• Experience in hiring, directing, mentoring and coordinating successful project teams.
• Knowledge of site, conceptual design, schematic design, design development, contract documents, and construction
• Bachelor's degree in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design or related discipline required.
• Architectural license, NCIDQ, or LARE as appropriate
• Professional accreditation in one area of Living Design that interests you: LEED AP with Specialty, BREEAM AP, WELL AP, SITES AP, CPHC/CPHE Passive House Institute Certified Passive House, or ILFI Living Fu
• Experience leading collaborative design teams across disciplines and practices: Workplace, Science & Technology, Sports/Recreation/Entertainment, Corporate/Commercial, Civic/Cultural, Higher Education, K-12, Health Care.
• Demonstrable track record of peer recognized, award winning built/unbuilt designs that have been published nationally and potentially internationally.
• Familiarity with all design phases of typical commercial scale project (s) including: programming, visioning, conceptual, schematic, design development, and construction documents phases as well as managing and responding to submittals and RFIs.
• Working knowledge of Revit. Working knowledge of conceptual modeling tools such as Rhino and Grasshopper
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office / Adobe Suite
• Strong working relationships with clients and consultants.
• Strong design portfolio, ideally broad based on a range of project types.
• LEED GA within 6 months of hire
• Strong familiarity of and ability to support project budgeting and contract negotiations.
• Strong ideator and conceptual thinker.
• Knowledge of industry regulations, health/life safety requirements, and interior building codes.
• Working knowledge of visualization tools such as Enscape and VRay

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance