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The Interior Design Director’s overall responsibility is to champion design excellence for all projects in the interiors discipline, including integrated and stand-alone projects. In partnership with the studio Design Director, the Interior Design Director ensures all interiors projects adhere to the firm’s commitment to creating a better, beautiful, more equitable world through Living Design. The Interior Design Director plays a pivotal role in shaping the aesthetic and functional aspects of our projects, from concept to completion, collaborates closely across disciplines to deliver design solutions that exceed expectations and elevate the human experience. Interiors Design Directors should foster a culture of design within their discipline and are responsible for the recruitment and mentorship of talent ensuring the elevation of diverse staff and skillsets to build a bench of the next generation of interior design talent within a studio.  

• 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. 
• Leads design teams, at all stages of the design process, in generating contemporary solutions that are sustainable and innovative responses to client needs. 
• Oversees the quality of the interior design process, product, and delivery for the interiors discipline. 
• Participates in project scope delineation, work plan creation and implementation, and fee negotiations for stand-alone and where appropriate, integrated interior design projects. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• Sets the interior design direction for projects, ensuring alignment with client objectives, brand identity and project goals.  
• Collaborates with design teams to ensures all project information is up to date in HUB.
• 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. 
• Engages with studio Design Director to request, organize and execute peer workshops at the appropriate point for each project. 
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with key decision makers and influencers on client teams. 
• Partners with local Talent Managers and studio leadership to identify, interview, recruit, and mentor interior design staff. 
• 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. 
• Mentors staff to ensure their personal and professional development goals are met. 
• Builds relationships with professional organizations and academic institutions. 
• Keeps abreast of current developments, trends, and practices within the interiors discipline. 
• 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. 
• 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 marketing, helping to strategize and win stand-alone and integrated work for the studio. Monitors, advises, reviews, and participates in marketing activities. 
• Demonstrable track record of peer recognized, award winning built/unbuilt designs that have been published nationally and potentially internationally.  
• 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.