Your Role
As a Design Manager-Hospitality Interiors, it’s your role to lead and deliver a variety of project types and sizes, through all phases. You will join our team of design thinkers and doers who specialize in helping to tell stories and create experiences in the context of design. As the main point of contact for the client in all work produced, you’ll draw on your extensive knowledge of the design and delivery process while mentoring junior staff to encourage the highest level of design and client satisfaction.
What You Will Do
- Develop and nurture positive relationships with existing client contacts, optimizing all potential opportunities
- Maintain an awareness of existing clients’ business objectives, plans, target audience, and market trends, and ensure that appropriate opportunities are identified to generate further demand for Gensler services.
- Responsible for the day-to-day delivery of projects ensuring they are delivered on time and on budget
- Lead and facilitate the overall cross-functional project team
- Focus on the smooth management of the project process, ensuring clarity of requirements, deliverables, timelines, and visibility against fees throughout the project life cycle
- Prepare, communicate, and monitor project work plans, budgets, and deliverables for client and internal teams
- Prepare and review proposals, contracts, and consultant agreements
- Manage multiple aspects of client, team, and project coordination, including full documentation coordination with structural, MEP, lighting, AV, landscape, civil, and other consultants
- Actively take ownership of problems and successful resolution planning in consultation with Practice Area leadership and Studio Director
- Support and contribute to new business development with both current and potential clients
- Contribute positively to project reports and staffing meetings with concise and accurate information to continually improve the studio’s delivery and financial objectives
- Review internal project accounting documents and process draft project billing
- Work with the Design Director and the marketing team to ensure that the project story is documented, and that photography/videography is arranged as needed
Your Qualifications
- Design Management and Project Management experience required
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Interior Design required
- 10+ years of industry experience inclusive of hospitality interiors projects
- Licensed Interior Designer preferred
- Experience in the delivery of projects on major hotel brand standards including upscale, upper upscale, and luxury brands required
- Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of interior design projects
- Proven ability to provide excellent client service and account leadership
- Be proactive and adaptable with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Strong programming and space planning skills
- Proficiency in Revit
- Experience managing consultant teams and resolving complex technical and design issues
To be considered, please submit a portfolio and/or work samples in PDF format.
This is not a hybrid or remote position. If you’re open to relocating to the Dallas, Texas area, please apply! Non-local candidates are welcome. U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 study ranks Dallas in the top 3 places to live in Texas!
Life at Gensler
As a people-first organization, 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.
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice-annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.
As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
At Gensler, the value of our work stems from its positive impact on the human experience. We are a dynamic and collaborative design firm uniting creativity, research, and innovation to solve complex problems for our clients. Our work challenges conventional ideas about architecture and the built environment. We aren’t just designing buildings — we are reimagining cities and places that make a difference in people’s lives. Founded in 1965, Gensler has built a team of 6,000 professionals who partner with clients in over 100 countries each year. Everything we do is guided by our mission: to create a better world through the power of design.
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What We Do
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 6,000+ professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 33 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors. Everything we do is guided by our mission: To create a better world through the power of design. We believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone. Gensler was named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2016, and our award-winning culture has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021. Our people-first philosophy is centered on the core ideas of diversity empowerment, impact, community, respect, and growth. You can learn more about our commitment to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace at https://www.gensler.com/careers#diversity.
