Senior Interior Designer, Education Market

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.

About K-12 & Higher Education at DLR Group

Our Higher Education and K-12 Education practices are united by a shared purpose: to elevate learning through design. Our multidisciplinary team of educators, researchers, anthropologists, planners, architects, engineers, building performance experts, and interior designers partners with institutions across the K-12 and Higher Education spectrum to design environments that inspire discovery, connection, and growth. Drawing from evidence-based design, we help schools and universities bridge the gap between tradition and innovation, improving operations and shaping spaces that enhance both academic learning and social development. We understand the rapid pace of technological, social, and cultural change, and work closely with educators and administrators to navigate these shifts. Together, we create learning environments that strengthen engagement, improve educational outcomes, and enrich the lives of students, faculty, and communities.

Position Summary

As a Senior Interior Designer, you will be working as a part of our integrated design team and will be responsible for collaborating on the design of projects from pre-design and programming through construction administration on projects ranging in size and complexity, with at least 75% being education-focused. This role is often responsible for leading project design efforts, client interactions, and presentations. As a Senior Interior Designer, you will mentor younger staff and foster a work environment that emphasizes mutual respect, integration, learning, communication, and collaboration.

If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset, this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee-owned and, as such, you’ll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably. Regional travel may be required as needed.

What you will do:

• Be a collaborative design team member, sharing 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.

• Estimates fees, determines scope of work, and prepares proposals and contracts

• Have strong creative design and drawing skills, graphic and oral design presentation skills, capacity for conceptual design thinking, and 3D design/modeling ability.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture or equivalent

• 10+ years of commercial design experience with expertise in Education (K-12 or Higher Ed)

• Proficiency with Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite

• Proficiency with SketchUp and some 3D rendering software

• Ability to work both independently and effectively in a cross-disciplinary team atmosphere and across multiple offices.

• Outstanding communication, and interpersonal skills and be an enthusiastic team player.

• Strong leadership and team building skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional NCIDQ Certification

• Industry involvement in relevant market sector organizations

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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.

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

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.