Job Description

Your Role

As a Gensler Senior Interior Designer in our Lifestyle practice areas, your job is to combine creativity and technical skills with a thorough understanding of the design to produce highly creative, environmentally conscious and budget responsive spaces for clients. You should have exceptional conceptual design skills, a background in hospitality design or interior architecture and a portfolio of innovative design concepts.

What You Will Do

• Lead interior design assignments across F&B, hospitality, and lounge projects, including concept design, space planning, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, and construction administration
• Provide creative and strategically minded design leadership, supporting the organisation, production, and execution of projects from concept through delivery
• Collaborate seamlessly with internal and external teams, including consultants, contractors, fabricators, and specialist partners, to achieve design, programme, and budget objectives
• Lead and participate in design development and iteration, producing 3D models and visualisations using Revit, SketchUp, Enscape (or similar)
• Generate and review interior architectural drawings, driving technical resolution and detailing, ensuring design intent is clearly communicated and buildable
• Work closely with product representatives, furniture dealers, and fabricators to realise design, brand, and budget goals
• Act as a client-facing design lead, supporting presentations, managing feedback, and helping to build and sustain strong client relationships within the hospitality and F&B sector
• Guide and mentor teams, supporting multiple projects at a high level while fostering a collaborative studio environment
• Contribute to business development efforts, supporting the growth of the studio’s F&B and hospitality portfolio
• Actively participate in office culture, initiatives, and learning programmes, promoting design excellence and an interdisciplinary approach across the studio

Your Qualifications

• Highly creative interior designer with 8-10+ years' experience delivering F&B, hospitality, Retail or lounge projects from concept through delivery
• Retail design experience would also be beneficial
• Confident hands-on designer, actively creating, detailing, and driving projects while mentoring the team
• Proven ability to run complex projects end-to-end, managing design, programme, budget, and stakeholders
• Ability to craft memorable, brand-aligned interior environments that combine atmosphere, materiality, and spatial storytelling across diverse hospitality and F&B projects
• Strong sector insight in F&B and hospitality, with a clear personal point of view and the ability to translate it into distinctive, commercially relevant designs
• High proficiency in SketchUp, Revit, and Adobe Suite, ensuring efficient, high-quality project outputs
• Strong technical and detailing capability, producing buildable, well-resolved interiors
• Credible client lead with strong presentation skills, stakeholder management, and existing or developing F&B/hospitality contacts
• Demonstrated appetite for business development, including growing client accounts and expanding the studio’s F&B portfolio
• Trusted to represent the studio externally while remaining deeply involved in project delivery

Please upload your portfolio/work samples along with your CV.

Life at Gensler

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical and dental insurance, season ticket loans, pension, and twice annual bonus opportunities.

As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.

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