Lead Designer
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Summary
Leads office-interior design projects from concept to completion, using AutoCAD, Photoshop, and SketchUp to plan spaces, select materials, and coordinate with clients and contractors.
Job Summary
Lead design teams to deliver high-quality commercial interior projects from concept through construction, ensuring alignment with client expectations and company standards.
Responsibilities
- Report project performance, design risks, team capacity, resource needs, and critical decisions directly to the Design Director
- Take full accountability for design quality and timely delivery across assigned projects from design direction to construction completion
- Translate the Design Director’s vision into clear project strategies, priorities, responsibilities, and review milestones for the design team
- Lead formal design reviews and approve key project deliverables before external submission or issue
- Assign ownership, set expectations, and monitor performance of Senior Designers, Designers, and Technical Designers against programme and quality standards
- Oversee resource allocation and workload across projects, recommending adjustments to address capacity, capability, or programme risks
- Act as the escalation point for major design, technical, coordination, client, consultant, contractor, and site issues unresolved by the project team
- Represent design leadership in client presentations, consultant meetings, contractor discussions, and project decision-making sessions
- Ensure alignment between design intent, technical delivery, project management, commercial requirements, procurement, and site execution
- Establish and enforce studio-wide design review, documentation, quality-control, and delivery standards
- Develop team capability through structured feedback, coaching, performance guidance, and succession planning
- Escalate significant project, resource, commercial, client, or reputational matters to the Design Director with clear recommendations and proposed actions
Requirements
- Required skill(s): AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch Up, Microsoft Office is a must
- At least 5 year(s) of working experience in Corporate Office Interior Design
- Excellent communication skill(s) including both written and oral (to be able to communicate efficiently with clients, consultants and contractors to produce concept design, space planning and presentation)
- Persuasive & influential to acquire best value from vendors
- Responsive and proactive and have real passion