Design Manager - Interiors - Senior

Description

Located in the heart of the city, the Gensler San Jose office serves as one of the firm’s key locations and a hub for innovation, collaboration, and interdisciplinary design excellence. Home to a diverse collective of architects, interior designers, strategists, planners, and technical experts, the office supports a broad range of practice areas including Workplace, Mixed-Use, Build-to-Suit, Critical Facilities, R&D Labs, Higher Education, and Corporate Interiors.

Located in the heart of the city, the Gensler San Jose office serves as one of the firm’s key locations and a hub for innovation, collaboration, and interdisciplinary design excellence. Home to a diverse collective of architects, interior designers, strategists, planners, and technical experts, the office supports a broad range of practice areas including Workplace, Mixed-Use, Build-to-Suit, Critical Facilities, R&D Labs, Higher Education, and Corporate Interiors.

As a Senior Design Manager in Gensler's Silicon Valley office, you will leverage your project leadership, client relationship management, and interior design expertise to drive design excellence across a diverse portfolio of projects ranging in scale and complexity. You will serve as a key leader within our Interiors practice, guiding teams through all phases of the design process, from programming, workplace strategy, and concept development through documentation, delivery, and project closeout.

This role requires a passionate and experienced design leader who thrives in a collaborative environment and brings deep expertise in the planning, design, and execution of innovative interior environments. You will balance design vision with project delivery, ensuring solutions are creative, functional, technically sound, and aligned with client goals.

The ideal candidate will possess exceptional design leadership skills, strong presentation and client engagement abilities, and a demonstrated capacity to translate client needs into thoughtful, impactful interior design solutions. You will have a comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end project lifecycle, including business development pursuits, client presentations, strategic planning, design development, documentation, consultant coordination, and construction administration.

As a self-motivated and collaborative leader, you will partner closely with colleagues across studios, disciplines, and offices throughout the firm while building strong relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, and industry partners. You will play a pivotal role in mentoring and developing design talent, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, and serving as a trusted advisor to both project teams and clients.

• Partner with Studio Directors, Principals, and project leadership to guide teams through all phases of project delivery
• Lead the development and execution of projects, ensuring design intent, quality standards, budget, schedule, and regulatory requirements are achieved
• Utilize your experience in project leadership and client relationship skills to build our capabilities to inspire and deliver projects of all scales and complexities
• Work collaboratively with others in your studio and in the Northwest region.
• Be accountable and manage the financial health of projects and client relationships.
• Lead a team or individually respond to RFQ / RFPs to build a pipeline of new work.
• Trach financial performance of projects
• Prepare project proposals, negotiate contracts and fees, coordinate the bidding process
• Keep pace with technology advances and the design innovations required to develop the supporting critical infrastructure.
• Effectively and routinely communicate with your leadership on status of…