Senior Interior Designer - Justice + Civic

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.

DLR Group's Justice+Civic team has an opening for a Senior Interior Designer in our Texas region. We operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home. Considering this model, this role could be based in the following cities:

• Austin
• Dallas
• Houston

Justice+Civic at DLR Group

As a nationally recognized expert in Justice+Civic facility planning and design, DLR Group serves municipal, county, state, and federal public-sector clients to deliver civic, public safety, and justice design solutions that achieve excellence in operations, sustainable design, resilience planning, space planning, building assessment, cost of ownership analysis, and project management. As stewards of the built environment, DLR Group’s Justice+Civic practice elevates behavioral, environmental, and social betterment, resulting in healing, equity, and transformation for the individual and community.

Position Summary

As a Senior Interior Designer on our Justice+Civic team at DLR Group, you will be responsible for developing designs from conception through construction administration. You will also have a part in helping the team secure work through your interactions with clients. As part of our integrated design team, you will create interior environments that elevate the human experience through design.

At this stage in your career you have a clear design voice and have developed in-depth sector-specific knowledge. In this role you will lead project design efforts, client interactions, and presentations. You will mentor staff, fostering a work environment that emphasizes mutual respect, learning, communication, and collaboration. You will work with a project team to enable the collaborative pursuit, award, and execution of work. Additional responsibilities may include, but not be limited to participation in interviews, marketing and business development activities, participation in firm research and development projects, the development of sector tools and marketing materials.

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.

The successful candidate will:

• Collaborate with design team members and instill thought-leadership throughout all phases of the design process.
• Create and lead design vision and direction for a design concept.
• Set a vision and direction for material palettes.
• Review and provide feedback to the team for development.
• Possess a deep understanding of the research underpinning evidence-based design solutions, adding value beyond the traditional FF&E support; work to generate design support tools.
• Bring regionally and/or nationally recognized industry expertise, continually growing expertise and skill sets.
• Take on responsibilities as outlined by regional or national leadership.
• Contribute to the development of Construction Documents and specifications; may provide a QA/QC role.
• Direct and contribute to the development of Furniture packages; may provide a QA/QC role.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design or equivalent.
• NCIDQ Certification.
• At least 8 years of experience in Public-sector and/or Government design industry with a keen understanding of market sector standards and best practices.
• Proficient in the use of computer modeling and rendering software.
• Ability to work both independently and effectively in a cross-disciplinary team atmosphere and across multiple offices.
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal skills, and be an enthusiastic team player.
• Strong leadership, team building, and time management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry involvement in relevant market sector organizations.

*TO BE CONSIDERED, PLEASE SUBMIT CURRENT PORTFOLIO/WORK SAMPLES IN PDF FORMAT*

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 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.

#LI-MIS