Senior Designer - Retail

Position Overview

Join a design-focused collaborative shaping consumer environments for ambitious brands. This Senior Designer serves as a senior design resource, owning complex retail projects from concept through Construction Administration while guiding teammates and partnering directly with clients and consultants.

Why This Role Stands Out

• End-to-end design ownership: lead from conceptual design through Construction Administration rather than handing work off after early design.
• Visible design influence across fast-paced, high-profile consumer environments, with responsibility for maintaining design intent across multiple projects.
• Meaningful mentorship: provide feedback and creative partnership while helping team members strengthen technical and design skills.
• A genuinely collaborative design culture built around dialogue, debate, iteration, curiosity, and co-authored solutions rather than “big reveal” design.
• Customer-centered design thinking: concepts are pressure-tested against the experience of the people who will use the spaces.
• Opportunity to work directly with brand-focused clients and navigate brand standards while still advancing innovative concepts.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate compelling design ideas quickly, translating creative thinking into thoughtful, buildable solutions with project teams, clients, and consultants.
• Lead the full design process from conceptual design through Construction Administration as the senior design resource.
• Mentor and guide design team members through thoughtful feedback and creative partnership.
• Initiate innovative design concepts and maintain design intent across multiple simultaneous projects.
• Listen actively, ask thoughtful questions, and bring curiosity and sound judgment to design conversations.
• Build trust with clients through strong organization and clear communication.
• Navigate brand standards and work directly with brand-focused clients.
• Deliver high-quality, thoughtful solutions on fast-paced projects and deadlines.
• Bring current knowledge of retail design trends, including digital technology integration, emerging markets and retail formats, and experiential design.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, or Architecture
• 8-10 years of recent retail-based project experience
• Proficiency with Revit and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Demonstrated ability to lead design work on complex retail projects and carry design intent through construction.
• Strong communication, organization, client collaboration, and deadline-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• NCIDQ certification or architecture license.
• Experience with Enscape or a similar visualization platform.

Experience with Miro.

Skills & Software

• Revit; Adobe Creative SuiteVisualization / collaboration
• Enscape or similar; Miro (preferred)Design capability
• Concept development, design communication, buildable solutions, design-intent stewardship
• Client / team capability
• Brand standards, client trust, mentoring, consultant collaboration
• Retail knowledge
• Experiential design, digital integration, emerging markets and retail formats

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidate is an entrepreneurial, detail-driven senior retail designer who combines concept strength with grounded execution. They are energized by pace and visibility, can move fluidly between big-picture ideas and buildable details, invite dialogue rather than defend a “big reveal,” and are comfortable leading clients and teams while remaining curious and collaborative.

Work Model, Compensation & Travel

• Boston or Columbus.
• $95,000-$120,000 base, contingent on relevant experience, plus variable bonus and benefits.
• Office-based 3+ days per week under the firm’s flexible work policy.
• Travel required.