The Role
Lead design delivery across luxury residential, hospitality, and commercial projects. Manage and mentor designers, produce FF&E packages, develop concepts into detailed designs, coordinate presentations, oversee joinery and construction detailing, and drive FF&E procurement, budgets, and supplier relations while ensuring client communication and timely deliverables.
Summary Generated by Built In
Our client is a distinguished architecture and interior design firm based in Dubai, renowned for crafting bespoke, elegant, and enduring spaces across residential, hospitality, and commercial sectors. With a commitment to sustainability, cutting-edge BIM technology, and seamless FF&E procurement, the company delivers premium, client-centric solutions—from master planning and technical design to construction supervision. They are seeking a Senior Designer who can lead the design and can motivate the designers.
Responsibilities:
- Main design lead for all areas of each project. Including finishes, details and full FF+E packages
- Leading, inspiring, motivating and overseeing the Designers, potentially across multiple projects at once. Time management crucial.
- Manage the design process to meet the deadlines as agreed with Project Leader.
- Ability to understand and document a full client brief and comprehensively relay information to the whole design team, set specific tasks and ensure productive use of all Designers’ time.
- Clear understanding of Scopes of Works with the ability to analyse a project in terms of the design deliverables required.
- Ensure the Client is fully aware of all design selections throughout the entire process, through detailed presentations including imagery, materials and reports.
- Deliver confident and inspiring presentations in order to gain and maintain the Clients’ trust throughout the process.
- Leading and creating inspirational design concepts and schemes through mood imagery and sketches and effectively communicating them to the team and client.
- Developing concepts and schemes into realistic designs.
- Overseeing Designer and Junior Designer to prepare presentation documents (InDesign) and leading the style and look of the creative concept.
- Produce a series of useable layout options for presentation to the Client/team.
- Responsible for all design decisions, for example, proportion, practicality, scale.
- Completely competent in the full FF&E design and Procurement process.
- Driving design process of FF&E including budgets, specifications and procurement.
- Leading the team in problem solving throughout entire design process resolving inevitable issues that arise when translating concept into realistic scheme; reviewing constraints of site; budget issues and timelines.
- Designing and detailing all joinery and construction details and communicating efficiently to the CAD/REVIT resource for documentation.
- Strong knowledge of the interior construction and detailing process.
Requirements
- Recognised qualification in Interior Design/Architecture or relevant industry experience.
- Extensive experience in the successful delivery of luxury interior design projects, either luxury hospitality or high end residential, from concept to completion and all aspects of the full design process.
- Excellent FF&E and Supplier knowledge.
- Excellent knowledge of the construction process, fabrication and detailing.
- Prior experience managing the design process and design team to ensure all deliverables and objectives are met.
- Must be prepared to travel abroad.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Medical Insurance
- VISA
- Luxury and professional environment
- Travelling opportunities
Skills Required
- Recognised qualification in Interior Design or Architecture (or equivalent industry experience)
- Extensive experience delivering luxury interior design projects from concept to completion
- Excellent FF&E knowledge and supplier management experience
- Strong knowledge of construction processes, fabrication and detailing
- Prior experience managing the design process and leading a design team
- Competent with BIM workflows and coordinating with CAD/Revit resources
- Experience producing presentation documents and creative direction (InDesign/mood boards)
- Willingness to travel abroad
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The Company
What We Do
Ladwig Consulting is a team of HR professionals based in Dubai, specializing in recruitment and HR consulting across the UAE, KSA, and other GCC countries. They provide professional recruitment services, executive search, and human capital solutions, focusing on creating effective HR structures and strategies to drive company growth. The firm has significant expertise in the real estate and development industries.
