Overview As Senior Design Director, you guide the creative direction and execution of complex environmental and broadcast design projects across venues, experiences, and spaces. You'll shape design concepts, mentor teams, and partner with cross functional groups to elevate the Specialized Environments practice. The role blends strategy, design detail, and client storytelling to deliver impactful, brand integrated environments. You will lead with vision, drive growth, and advocate for a collaborative studio culture with a strong client focus.
Responsibilities- Lead the design vision for complex environmental and broadcast projects from concept to design development
- Create and guide design concepts connecting brand, storytelling, audience experience, and space
- Set and elevate the creative bar for the Specialized Environments practice
- Oversee design workstreams across multiple projects from brief to production handoff
- Collaborate with strategy, creative, account, PM, production, fabrication, technical, and vendor teams
- Develop mood boards, narratives, plans, elevations, renderings, and design documentation
- Ensure design intent is communicated and protected throughout the process
- Identify challenges early and drive solutions with internal and external partners
- Present work to clients and senior stakeholders with clear narratives
- Mentor designers and grow the team's creative capabilities
- Support thought leadership, case studies, and capabilities decks
- Help expand the offering across broadcast, sports, brand experience, and spaces
- Identify new opportunities with existing and future clients
- Advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in practice growth
Key requirements- 10+ years in environmental/experiential design, architecture, interior or related field
- Experience leading complex spatial design projects from concept to execution
- Strong portfolio in environmental storytelling, spatial design, materiality, lighting, graphics, and brand integration
- Experience presenting to clients and senior stakeholders
- Experience mentoring or leading designers
- Ability to work across multiple project types and scales
- Strong understanding of design process, fabrication, and buildability
- Comfort in a fast-paced, collaborative agency environment
- strong presentation and client-facing skills
- collaboration across strategy, creative, account, production, and technical teams
- curiosity about different environments
- environmental design
- spatial design
- materiality
