Interior Designer - Workplace - Senior

Your Role

As a Gensler Senior Interior Designer, you are passionate about your craft and combine creativity and technical knowledge with business skills and understanding to produce functionally beautiful spaces for clients. You have exceptional design skills, a background in architecture or design, and a portfolio of innovative design concepts. You are an integral member of the design team who contributes a point of view and craves participation in conceptual thought process and design exploration. With you as part of our team, interiors have never been so engaging.

What You Will Do

• Lead interior design teams on projects

• Collaborate on workplace interiors projects, including programming client needs, conceptual and schematic design, design development, and management of budgets and schedules

• Develop space planning concepts and generate program documents

• Participate in selection of furniture systems and specifications

• Provide project team coordination for finish plans, specifications, and material selections required for construction

• Work with consultants, developers, furniture dealers, product reps, and fabricators to meet overall project objectives

• Assist in managing client expectations, team communication and consultant coordination

• Contribute to office activities, initiatives and learning programs

• Participate in business development and marketing efforts

• Assures design conforms to contractual agreement with client

• Establish and maintain ongoing, productive client relationships

• Provide quality control reviews, QAQC of milestone drawing and FF&E specification deliverables

• Provides coaching and mentorship to team members

• Contribute to the recruitment process of new staff

Your Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience as an interior designer, with a focus on hospitality interiors and workplace design experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design or related field from an accredited school

• NCIDQ or Certified Interior Designer required

• Proficient in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, 3D, Rhino, Grasshopper, and other modeling software programs

• Experience on interior renovation of historical buildings will be highly valued

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

• Strong knowledge of the design process, knowledge of furniture, finishes, materials, color selections, millwork design, accessories, and specifications

• Experience with construction document preparation

• Graphics and visualization skills to effectively communicate design ideas

• Strong leadership, organization, communication and relationship management skills

All applications must include a portfolio for full consideration.

**The base salary will be estimated between $120,000 - $135,000 plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience. To learn more about our compensation philosophy and full benefits offerings, please visit   Great People, Great Rewards | Gensler

Life at Gensler

At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.

As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.