Senior Interior Designer, Education Market

Senior Interior Designer, Education Market

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you're in the right place.

Position Summary

As Senior Interior Designer, you will be working as a part of our integrated design team and are responsible for collaborating on the design of projects from pre-design and programming through construction administration on projects ranging in size and complexity, with at least 75% being Education focused. This role is often responsible for leading project design efforts, client interactions, and presentations. As a Senior Interior Designer, you will mentor younger staff and foster a work environment that emphasizes mutual respect, integration, learning, communication, and collaboration.

If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee owned and as such you'll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably. Regional travel may be required as needed.

What You Will Do:

• Be a collaborative design team member, sharing thought-leadership throughout all phases of the design process.
• Have strong client and time management skills.
• Set a vision and direction for design concept presentations.
• Set a vision and direction for material palettes, reviews, and provides feedback to the team for development.
• Estimates fees, determines scope of work, and prepares proposals and contracts
• Have strong creative design and drawing skills, graphic and oral design presentation skills, capacity for conceptual design thinking, and 3D design/modeling ability.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture or equivalent
• 10+ years of commercial design experience with expertise in Education (K-12 or Higher Ed)
• Proficiency with Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite
• Proficiency with SketchUp and some 3D rendering software
• Ability to work both independently and effectively in a cross-disciplinary team atmosphere and across multiple offices.
• Outstanding communication, and interpersonal skills and be an enthusiastic team player.
• Strong leadership and team building skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional NCIDQ Certification
• Industry involvement in relevant market sector organizations

Our comprehensive benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range

$95,000 - $115,000 USD