Director Interior Design

About the Role

STV is seeking a Director of Interior Design to lead and elevate our interior design practice in Boston. This is a senior design, delivery, and practice leadership role for an accomplished interior designer who can establish a compelling creative vision and lead teams in carrying that vision through coordinated documentation, construction administration, and project completion. The Director will develop staff, strengthen project-delivery standards, build trusted client relationships, and help grow STV's interior design practice in Boston while contributing to its continued development across the firm.

Responsibilities

• Provide creative and technical leadership for STV's interior design practice, establishing design direction and quality expectations and maintaining design intent from initial concept through construction completion.
• Lead interior design projects throughout the full project lifecycle, including programming, space planning, concept development, design development, construction documentation, bidding, construction administration, and closeout.
• Direct the preparation and review of complete, coordinated, and constructible interior design documents, including drawings, schedules, details, specifications, and FF&E information.
• Ensure that deliverables communicate the approved design intent, fulfill the contracted scope, and meet project and firm quality standards.
• Lead coordination with architects, engineers, consultants, manufacturers, vendors, and contractors to integrate interior design requirements into the overall project.
• Establish appropriate quality reviews and ensure that coordination issues and review comments are resolved before issuance.
• Lead or provide senior oversight of bidding, construction administration, field observations, and closeout. Ensure that construction-phase decisions respond appropriately to contractual, cost, schedule, and constructability requirements while maintaining the approved design intent.
• Lead project teams by establishing clear work plans, responsibilities, deliverables, coordination expectations, and review milestones.
• Provide active direction, mentorship, professional development, and career guidance while holding teams accountable for design quality and successful project delivery.
• Work with project leadership to align interior design scope, staffing, schedule, fee, and quality expectations and to identify potential delivery risks early.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and lead design workshops, presentations, and key project decisions.
• Support practice growth through client relationship development, pursuit strategy, proposals, interviews, and appropriate industry engagement.
• Strengthen interior design standards, workflows, quality practices, and lessons learned in collaboration with STV's architecture, engineering, technical, BIM, and project-management leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, or a related field.
• 15 or more years of professional interior design experience, including substantial experience leading design teams and complex building projects through construction completion.
• NCIDQ certification required.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design excellence, technical resolution, and successful client and constructed outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects through programming, design development, construction documentation, bidding, construction administration, and closeout.
• Strong knowledge of interior construction, detailing, material performance, specifications, furniture systems, accessibility, life safety, applicable building codes, and coordination with architectural and engineering systems.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and direct project teams, establish documentation and review expectations, lead multidisciplinary coordination, and deliver work consistent with established scope, schedule, fee, and quality requirements.
• Proficiency in Revit and familiarity with AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and commonly used visualization and presentation tools.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design direction and project requirements clearly to clients, staff, consultants, contractors, and firm leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in client relationship management, proposals, interviews, and business development.
• Ability to lead multiple projects, teams, and priorities within a collaborative, multidisciplinary practice.

Preferred Qualifications

• LEED Accredited Professional, WELL Accredited Professional, EDAC certification, architectural licensure, or another relevant professional credential.
• Experience with healthcare, higher education, workplace, science and technology, civic, or public-sector projects.
• Experience developing or improving interior design standards, documentation practices, quality-control processes, Revit workflows, or staff training programs.
• Experience representing a design practice through professional organizations, publications, speaking engagements, or other industry involvement.

About STV

STV is an award-winning planning, engineering, architecture, and construction management firm dedicated to building a better tomorrow. Our team of more than 3,000 professionals provides a wide range of services across transportation, buildings, infrastructure, and energy markets.

Pay

Compensation Range: $160,647.46 – $183,597.09

Benefits

• Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable)
• Disability insurance
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• 401(k) Plan
• Retirement Counseling
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Back-Up Dependent Care
• Parental Leave
• Continuing Education Program
• Professional Licensure and Society Memberships