Senior Interior Designer

Company Description

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AECOM's Chicago Buildings + Places team is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Interior Designer to lead the design and execution of interior design projects across multiple typologies. The Senior Interior Designer is responsible for setting the strategic direction, creative vision, and technical excellence of interior design projects. This role combines design leadership, and client engagement, while ensuring projects are delivered with design quality, financial discipline, and operational efficiency.

This role is a hybrid position located in Chicago, IL.

AECOM is a globally recognized architecture and engineering design firm whose diverse, creative teams deliver positive impact to millions of people worldwide. We operate collaboratively across business lines and regions, trusted to deliver some of the most complex projects on the planet. Our Client Promise - excellence, innovation, measurable value - reflects our dedication to understanding needs, exceeding expectations, and achieving shared goals, grounded in integrity, collaboration, and innovation.

Our practice is one of the fastest growing and highest-performing B+P practices in AECOM ’s West Region. We offer a full suite of services: architecture, interiors, building systems and structural engineering, urbanism and planning (including landscape), workplace transformation, advisory services, technology solutions, and digital delivery - and serve as a Center of Excellence for many of these disciplines.

We work in a collaborative model across the West Region with other B+P practices, as well as with AECOM’s Transportation, Water, Environment and Advisory business lines to support vertical infrastructure and comprehensive solutions. Our Chicago-led client base is global and includes Public Non-Federal, Cultural + Civic, Commercial, Science & Technology, Transit, and Federal clients. Most clients are repeat partners, recognizing our service model and outcomes as excellent.

Recognized by over 45 design awards in the past five years, we aim to be the design firm of choice for clients and the employer of choice for diverse, best-in-class talent - doing the work that matters.

Recent/ongoing projects include Corporate Headquarters Interior Fit-Out, Milwaukee County Courthouse;
Interior Fit-Outs for National Financial Client;
City of Chicago Joint Police and Training Center Emergency Medical Services Addition;
Lake County Convention Center.

In partnership with the Desing Director, the Senior Interior Designer serves as a trusted advisor to clients and a mentor to design teams, elevating the firm’s brand, culture and market presence. This role balances hands‑on design leadership with client engagement and mentorship, elevating design excellence and supporting project needs, profitability, and long‑term client relationships in alignment with regional and national objectives.

• Lead concept development and design excellence across multiple project types and scales
• Ensure consistency in quality, innovation, sustainability, and technical rigor
• Review and guide major project milestones from concept through…