Senior Interior Designer, Hospitality - DLR Group

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

The Interior Design team is seeking a creative and innovative Senior Interior Designer to help lead the Hospitality studio. DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

Location: Chicago, IL

About Hospitality at DLR Group

We use a collaborative approach to understand a local community and then curate a project vision that aligns client goals and the brand personality of a hotel within that local environment. It’s storytelling through design to deliver a unique experience for every client and their guests. Our portfolio includes many well-known projects making a lasting impression on the luxury lifestyle market globally.

Position Summary:

As Senior Interior Designer you will be helping lead our integrated design team and are responsible for collaborating on the design of projects from pre-design and programming through construction administration, on projects ranging in size and complexity. You will often lead project design efforts, client interactions, and presentations. You will mentor younger staff, fostering a work environment that emphasizes mutual respect, integration, learning, communication, and collaboration. You will work collaboratively with clients, contractors, vendors and DLR Group team members to deliver projects. The individual we are seeking has strong creative skills and will foster a design forward culture, building a progressive hospitality practice with a competitive advantage in the industry.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a collaborative design team member, leading thought-leadership throughout all phases of the design process.
• Have strong client and time management skills.
• Set a vision and direction for design concept presentations.
• Set a vision and direction for material palettes, reviews, and provides feedback to the team for development.
• Have strong creative design and drawing skills, graphic and oral design presentation skills, capacity for conceptual design thinking, and 3D design/modeling ability.
• Partake in project interviews and support the growth of the Hospitality studio

Required Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of experience with a significant portion in the Hospitality Market
• Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture or equivalent
• Ability to work both independently and effectively in a cross-disciplinary team atmosphere and across multiple offices.
• Outstanding communication, great interpersonal skills, and an enthusiastic team player.
• Strong leadership and team building skills.
• Strong time management skills.
• Proficiency with Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite
• Proficiency with SketchUp and some 3D rendering software
• Familiarity with FFE specification software and producing custom specifications
• The ability to travel occasionally to support project tasks
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional NCIDQ Certification
• Industry involvement in relevant market sector organizations
• An understanding of how to estimate fees, determines scope of work, and prepares proposals and contracts
• Has an interest in Healthy Materials and sustainable building design

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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Our ambition is to use our collective design voice to bring about a better society and create stronger communities by recognizing and addressing longstanding inequities in our nation. Leading this change – to deliver a more equitable culture – aligns with DLR Group’s Core Values and our brand promise to elevate the human experience through design. By exploring, discovering, sharing, and ultimately resolving inequities identified within our firm and the broader A/E/C industry, we can develop a more diverse and inclusive design culture to better fulfill our brand promise.

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.

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