Interior Designer - Workplace - Senior

Your Role

As a Senior Designer with Gensler's team in Atlanta, you will lead creative, collaborative teams dedicated to design innovation and excellence. Use your unique design perspective to bring new approaches to design process and strategy, develop next-generation talent, and help our clients reimagine what's possible. Our teams design for all of humanity, driving a passionately curious design culture to create solutions that are emotionally resonant and that positively impact people's everyday experiences.

What You Will Do

• Lead the creative efforts and develop overall design concepts and design presentation strategies
• Act as an advocate and committed mentor for Gensler's next generation of talent; build Gensler's talent pipeline through recruiting and outreach with local design communities and universities
• Provide creative direction to design teams
• Advance the understanding that design resilience is a responsibility of every person at Gensler
• Cultivate design expertise with the desire to always learn, grow, and evolve
• Act as a primary design interface with clients and consultants
• Collaborate with team members and colleagues to promote an inter-disciplinary design approach and philosophy
• Participate in client development, marketing and project interview efforts
• Select interior finishes, furniture and equipment
• Produce space plans, furniture plans, elevations, conceptual and finished design presentation documentation
• Provide solutions to design problems and generate design alternatives
• Review drawings, mockups, materials, and finish samples submitted by project contractors
• Manage and curate project photography and awards submissions

Your Qualifications

• Possess uncommon design talent, a personal brand and a clear point of view
• Fearless integrator and advocate for diverse points of view and expansive thinking
• Ability to define a project's creative foundation through storytelling, and merge the goals and strategy with a clear conceptual vision
• Passionate advocate for our clients, ensuring that the design vision exceeds goals and expectations
• Ability to forge strong relationships with existing and new clients
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of design or architecture
• 10+ years of professional interior design and interior architecture experience; recent corporate interiors project experience is required
• NCIDQ certified, RA and/or LEED accreditation are preferred
• Strong leadership, communication, presentation, and relationship management skills
• Proficiency in Revit and other computer design programs
• Must have a project portfolio of large corporate office projects; ideally project portfolio will show a range of corporate interiors from 25k-1M sq ft for tech firms, law firms, and other companies
• Demonstrated commitment to sustainability and sustainable building practices; Portfolios should include at least one project (especially built projects with LEED, Living Building Challenge, WELL Building Standard, Fitwel, and/or Net Zero Building certification) with this particular focus, which we look forward to discussing during the interview

*This role is not remote, we look forward to the successful candidate working in person in our dynamic Atlanta office.

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.