Interior Designer - Hospitality - Senior

Gensler Hospitality Senior Interior Designer

As a Gensler Hospitality 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 itches to contribute 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 hospitality 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 hospitality furniture systems and specifications
• Provide project team coordination for finish plans, specifications, and material selections required for construction
• Work with consultants, hotel brands, 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
• Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Architecture or related field from an accredited school
• NCIDQ or Certified Interior Designer required
• Recognized in the hospitality industry as a leader in hotel and resort interior design
• Proficient in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, 3D, Rhino, Grasshopper, and other modeling software programs
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Strong knowledge of the design process, Knowledge of furniture, finishes, materials, color selections, 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 range will be estimated between $130,000 - $155,000 plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience.

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.