Position Overview
Join a design-focused collaborative shaping consumer environments for ambitious brands. This Senior Designer serves as a senior design resource, owning complex retail projects from concept through Construction Administration while guiding teammates and partnering directly with clients and consultants.
Why This Role Stands Out
- End-to-end design ownership: lead from conceptual design through Construction Administration rather than handing work off after early design.
- Visible design influence across fast-paced, high-profile consumer environments, with responsibility for maintaining design intent across multiple projects.
- Meaningful mentorship: provide feedback and creative partnership while helping team members strengthen technical and design skills.
- A genuinely collaborative design culture built around dialogue, debate, iteration, curiosity, and co-authored solutions rather than “big reveal” design.
- Customer-centered design thinking: concepts are pressure-tested against the experience of the people who will use the spaces.
- Opportunity to work directly with brand-focused clients and navigate brand standards while still advancing innovative concepts.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and communicate compelling design ideas quickly, translating creative thinking into thoughtful, buildable solutions with project teams, clients, and consultants.
- Lead the full design process from conceptual design through Construction Administration as the senior design resource.
- Mentor and guide design team members through thoughtful feedback and creative partnership.
- Initiate innovative design concepts and maintain design intent across multiple simultaneous projects.
- Listen actively, ask thoughtful questions, and bring curiosity and sound judgment to design conversations.
- Build trust with clients through strong organization and clear communication.
- Navigate brand standards and work directly with brand-focused clients.
- Deliver high-quality, thoughtful solutions on fast-paced projects and deadlines.
- Bring current knowledge of retail design trends, including digital technology integration, emerging markets and retail formats, and experiential design.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, or Architecture
- 8-10 years of recent retail-based project experience
- Proficiency with Revit and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Demonstrated ability to lead design work on complex retail projects and carry design intent through construction.
- Strong communication, organization, client collaboration, and deadline-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- NCIDQ certification or architecture license.
- Experience with Enscape or a similar visualization platform.
Experience with Miro.
Skills & Software
- Revit; Adobe Creative SuiteVisualization / collaboration
- Enscape or similar; Miro (preferred)Design capability
- Concept development, design communication, buildable solutions, design-intent stewardship
- Client / team capability
- Brand standards, client trust, mentoring, consultant collaboration
- Retail knowledge
- Experiential design, digital integration, emerging markets and retail formats
Ideal Candidate Profile
The strongest candidate is an entrepreneurial, detail-driven senior retail designer who combines concept strength with grounded execution. They are energized by pace and visibility, can move fluidly between big-picture ideas and buildable details, invite dialogue rather than defend a “big reveal,” and are comfortable leading clients and teams while remaining curious and collaborative.
Work Model, Compensation & Travel
- Boston or Columbus.
- $95,000-$120,000 base, contingent on relevant experience, plus variable bonus and benefits.
- Office-based 3+ days per week under the firm’s flexible work policy.
- Travel required.