Interior Designer - Hospitality - Senior

Your Role

As a Senior Interior Designer in the Gensler Dubai office, you are responsible for helping to lead collaborative, creative team and providing design leadership through all phases of client projects. Use your unique design perspective to bring new approaches to design process and strategy, develop next-generation talent, and help our clients redesign what’s possible.

You are passionate about your craft and combine creativity and technical knowledge with business skills and understanding to produce functionally beautiful spaces for clients. You have exceptional conceptual design skills, a background in architecture or design, and a portfolio of innovative design concepts and built work. You are an integral member of the design team who itches to contribute a point of view and craves participation in conceptual thought process and design exploration. With you as part of our design leadership team, interiors have never been so engaging.

What You Will Do

• Lead creative direction across interior design projects - from concept to client presentation - ensuring high-quality, innovative, and cohesive design outcomes.
• Act as a primary design interface with clients, representing the studio in meetings and presentations, and cultivating long-term client relationships.
• Guide interdisciplinary teams through schematic design, development, and documentation - collaborating with technical teams to ensure accurate execution.
• Mentor junior designers and contribute to fostering a strong design culture through collaboration, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Integrate sustainability and ESG goals into all design work, aligning project outcomes with client values and Gensler’s environmental commitments.
  
  

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited school of design.
• 10+ year’s professional experience including proven track record of contributing to the design of hospitality interiors projects.
• Experience leading design teams through all phases of the design process is essential.
• Strong planning abilities and with the ability to mentor team members, offer guidance and leadership.
• Strong skills in client relationship management and presentation.
• Proficiency in the use of Revit and other 3D computer design programs.
• Proficient in Creative Adobe Suite applications specifically InDesign.
• Knowledge of furniture, finishes, materials and specifications.
• LEED, WELL, Fitwel, LFA or other rating systems accreditation preferable.
• Strong graphic and visualization skills to communicate design ideas.
• Strong organizations skills and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Understand key principles for leading and achieving net zero projects.
• Capacity to drive sustainability focused discussions with clients and teams.
• Demonstrated commitment to sustainability and sustainable building practices required.
• Previous experience in sustainable design projects preferred. At least one project of the candidate portfolio should showcase this focus. Especially built projects with LEED, Living Building Challenge, WELL Building Standard, Fitwel and /or Net Zero Building certification.
  
  

Essential

Your Design Technology Qualifications

• Deep understanding and expertise in Autodesk Revit for design authoring, documentation, data extracts and project delivery.
• Good knowledge and experience with real-time rendering processes, and material creation & management within the context of integrated BIM and parametric workflows.
  
  

Desirable

• Good working knowledge and experience in Rhinoceros for design authoring.
• Basic understanding and familiarity with interoperability workflows between various design tools such as, AutoCad, Revit, Rhino, etc
• Good knowledge and experience in the use of VR walkthroughs and panoramas for client presentations, consultant coordination and internal design reviews.
  
  

Applications we work with

• Design Authoring - Revit, Rhino, Autocad, Navisworks
• Collaboration - BIM360
• Computational Design - Grasshopper, Dynamo
• Building Performance Simulation - Insight, Sefaira, Diva, Ladybug tools
• Visualisation – Vray, Enscape, Twinmotion, 3DSMax
• Graphics & Productivity - Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
• Experiential – Unreal Engine, Unity
• Development – C#, Python
  
  

To be considered, please submit portfolio and/or work samples in PDF format.

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 internal design competitions to research grants 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 and wellness programs. We also offer profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities.

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.

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