Senior Interior Designer

About SHIFT Design

SHIFT Design is the interior design of SHIFT Group, delivering high-impact, functional, and commercially successful interior solutions across commercial, residential, hospitality, and mixed-use developments. The studio operates at the intersection of design excellence, technical rigor, and execution leadership.

Role Summary

The Senior Interior Designer plays a pivotal leadership role within the studio, responsible for setting design direction, overseeing multiple projects, and ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes. This role combines creative leadership, technical authority, client partnership, and team development with accountability for design integrity from concept through site completion.

Key Responsibilities:

Design Leadership & Strategy

• Lead overall design direction across multiple interior projects, ensuring alignment with SHIFT Design’s creative standards and client objectives
• Translate client briefs into strong design narratives, concepts, and commercially viable solutions
• Set and uphold design quality benchmarks across all project stages

Project Oversight & Delivery

• Oversee end-to-end project delivery from concept design to IFC, construction, and handover
• Review and approve design outputs, technical drawings, specifications, and joinery details
• Provide strategic design input during value engineering without compromising design intent
• Ensure compliance with local authority regulations, codes, and project requirements

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a senior design representative in client presentations, design workshops, and negotiations
• Build long-term client relationships through trusted design leadership and delivery excellence
• Collaborate closely with Project Managers, consultants, contractors, and suppliers to resolve design and site challenges

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop interior designers and junior team members
• Review team outputs, provide structured feedback, and guide professional growth
• Support resource planning, workload allocation, and design resourcing across projects

Studio & Business Contribution

• Contribute to studio-wide design standards, templates, and best practices
• Support bid proposals, design pitches, and concept submissions as required
• Provide input into process improvement, design efficiency, and delivery optimization

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design or Architecture
• Minimum 7 to 10 years of progressive interior design experience, with proven leadership responsibility
• Extensive experience delivering high-value fit-out projects in the GCC (Qatar experience strongly preferred)
• Expert-level proficiency in AutoCAD ; strong working knowledge of Revit, SketchUp, 3Ds Max, Lumion
• Deep technical understanding of materials, finishes, joinery, FF&E, and construction detailing
• Demonstrated client-facing leadership and multi-project oversight capability
• Strong knowledge of local authority approval processes and site coordination
• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills

Key Competencies

• Design vision and creative direction
• Strategic thinking and commercial awareness
• Client leadership and stakeholder influence
• Technical authority and quality control
• Team leadership and mentorship
• Multi-project and studio-level oversight