Director of Interior Design

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

Design Team Management :

• Serve as the central point of contact between the VP of ID and the DPM-ID team to ensure alignment on project milestones, deliverables, and priorities.
• Manage and maintain project trackers, milestone dashboards, and reporting tools to support decision-making and resource planning.
• Serve as the central point of contact between the Contracts & Procurement team and Project Design Leads, ensuring design-specific needs are accurately reflected in contractual documentation.
• Assist in crafting and reviewing Interior Design scopes of services, technical deliverables, and design briefs, with a focus on strategic alignment and long-term project success.
• Provide design-informed feedback on contract deliverables and help negotiate contractual exceptions and project-specific nuances that may impact design execution.
• Support consultant resourcing efforts, including manhour planning, scope alignment, and resource forecasting, ensuring external teams are appropriately scaled and briefed for each phase of work.
• Help identify gaps in consultant deliverables or scope coverage, proactively flagging risks and opportunities to the VP and project leads.
• Support team travel planning, onboarding, and hiring coordination in collaboration with HR and department leads.
• Facilitate studio-wide communication and collaboration, ensuring clarity and consistency across all levels.
• Help identify and resolve procedural bottlenecks, enabling the team to focus on design delivery.
• Direct and guide a team of design managers to ensure the team is on track
• Direct design teams and define team resources to ensure successful implementation of design excellence within an operating environment
• Ensure stringent compliance to company policies and procedures and statutory requirements
• Develop a strong culture of integrity, teamwork, passion, creativity, respect, and strong project delivery

Project Delivery :

Stakeholder Engagement :

JOB REQUIREMENTS : Education :

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Key Competencies :

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Microsoft Office

Oral Communication Skills

Property

Fabrication

Stakeholder Engagement

Complex Problem Solving

Resourcing

Interior Design

Space Planning

Furniture

AutoCAD

Resource Management

Travel Planning

Layout

Hospitality