Senior Interior Designer - Lifestyle
Make an Impact
As a Senior Interior Designer, you are a highly experienced interior designer responsible for managing multiple projects ranging from small to large sized projects of basic to complex scope with minimal supervision/maximum autonomy (including large systems furniture projects and full architectural solutions in coordination with an architect). You are responsible for the highest level of Interior Design outcomes, completing projects through peer relationships, interpersonal savvy, building effective teams, and customer focus with accuracy and creativity while monitoring project performance within contract hours and meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
You grow business and mentor other Interior Designers by through organizing, presentations and planning for the various phases of projects, recognized through your drive for results.
Deliver Results
- Consistently and effectively lead the most complex projects with accuracy while monitoring project performance within contract hours and meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
- Develop innovative design solutions which are conducive to intended purposes and function which is reflective of client goals and within project budget.
- Lead the direction of the overall project process including development of work plans and proposals.
- Provide exceptional interior design work for clients – producing superior senior level output and outcomes.
- Assist in new business development efforts by professionally and expertly representing the capabilities of the interior design group to prospective clients in interview teams.
- Actively seek to grow current client relationships by identifying additional projects/business needs Progressive AE may engage in, including client management.
- Demonstrate advanced consultative skills and consistently enhance credibility with clients by being an insightful problem solver and a key resource for achieving their business objectives.
- Demonstrate advanced skills at building value by tactfully opening clients’ perspectives to unseen risks, missed opportunities, and/or alternative creative ideas and concepts.
- Develop pre-design & programming, conceptual design, schematic design, design development and coordinate project design assignments, as well as develop design documentation.
- Provide mentoring regarding the selection and research of project design materials, furnishings, fixtures, and equipment.
- Apply advanced understanding of codes and construction regulations and respond appropriately to code implications during all phases of project work.
- Incorporate integrated sustainable design solutions into projects.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design or Architecture or equivalent in education and experience required for professional certification.
- NCIDQ certified interior designer (or commitment to acquire within 24 months of hire date).
- IIDA or ASID membership preferred.
- LEED certification preferred.
- CSI-CDT preferred (or willingness to complete within 12 months of hire date.)
- 10 years of post-graduate interior design experience.
- Proven ability to lead multiple and complex projects, as well as designing projects of a routine nature.
- Advanced knowledge of the interior design and documentation process, including a high level of creative talent in conceptual design and rendering skills of either hand sketching or computer modeling, as evidenced through an outstanding portfolio of past work.
People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.
The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.
Sustainable and Inclusive
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
Employee Owned
We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.
Culture of Excellence
The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.
Other details
- Job Family Interior Design
- Job Function Interior Designer
- Pay Type Salary
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA