Senior Project Designer, Interiors

Communication and Collaboration • Listen and communicate effectively and professionally • Working knowledge and understanding for use of HMC equipment and software • Coordinate with team members and consultants for conflicts and discrepancies • Ability to apprise design teams and clients for status of work • Establish productive working relationships, and deal effectively and cooperatively with clients, team members, and consultants • Display willingness to make decisions; exhibit sound and accurate judgment; support and explain reasoning for decisions; include appropriate people in decision-making process; make timely decisions • Collaborate with appropriate staff to meet goals and objectives of project • Ensure that coaching, mentoring, and provide performance-enhancing feedback of assigned team members are provided • Direct overall verbal and graphic communication of complex project concepts to clients, public agencies and project teams, and be primary point of contact for all client issues Supervision and Delegation • Ability to professionally communicate both verbally and in writing to give assignments to office support staff, consultants, and vendors • Ability to delegate assignments to support staff and always be respectful • Ability to supervise and give direction to consultants, art and design team members • Establish working relationships with artists and/or their representatives whose work strengthens/reflects HMC’s aesthetic values/design principles • Primary source for monitoring employee performance on a daily basis and taking the appropriate action to report both positive and negative performance • Assist and/or prepare evaluations and meet with their personnel to discuss the evaluation • Support senior project manager and/or PIC in supervision and delegation of work • Ability to supervise three to six employees Business Development • Always be professional and respectful in interactions with clients and consultants • Maintain primary contact with clients and have excellent follow-through with clients to help get repeat work • Write and develop project marketing interview materials and participate in project marketing interview • Write and approve marketing proposals • Ability to market project capability through client interviews, public presentations and professional publications Design • Integrate design principles with project design team and maintain design integrity through all phases • Promote design quality and design collaboration • Direct art development, ensuring quality of output is in support of project design intent, meeting client expectations • Manage creative projects from concept to completion and translate client’s objective into creative and responsive solutions • Guide design team and ensure that the design intent is followed through all phases • Lead office design charettes • Ensure that project managers support design and follow design intent on all projects The salary range for this position is $105,682 - $158,086