Interior Design Leader - Workplace

About Woods Bagot – Architecture for Worlds Ahead

We design places that meet the challenges and opportunities of our rapidly changing world. Our commitment to exploration, impact and community creates enduring, forward‑thinking outcomes, unlocking humanity’s highest potential. With a global design culture devoted to creativity, resilience, and purpose – we ensure every project contributes to our client’s vision, inspiring future generations.

Woods Bagot is part of the 7C Network. The 7C Network is an integrated network of design and architecture companies that provides "Total Place Design," a holistic approach to creating transformative environments. It combines capabilities from its constituent brands - including Woods Bagot, ERA-co, Impact Futures, and Customs Bureau - to offer services in placemaking, sustainability, architecture and interior design, and luxury concepts.

As the workplace interior design leader, you will be responsible for guiding the creative direction, strategy, and delivery of high-impact workplace projects. You’ll lead across all project phases - championing design quality, fostering collaboration, and cultivating strong client relationships. Your leadership will play a key role in shaping progressive, human-centered workplace environments that reflect our clients’ brand, culture, and future ambitions.

Practice Leadership and Management:

• Provide leadership and motivation to the New York Studio, specifically the Workplace Interiors team
• Lead the interior design process from concept through completion on key commercial projects
• Collaborate with clients, consultants, and internal teams to deliver integrated, high-performance design solutions
• Establish and foster relationships with existing and new clients, afford new project opportunities, and collaborate with the Business Development / Marketing / PR + Comms (BDMC) Team to prepare proposals to pursue new projects
• Establish a culture of design excellence in commercial interior projects in New York and across the East Coast and the North America region
• Foster a commitment to exceptional client service
• Provide mentorship to others within the practice
• Develop and review fee proposals, budgets, and financial projections
• Utilize and encourage best uses of technology for design, presentation, and production
• Manage design presentations, documentation, and quality control across all project phases.
• Manage the design solution by:
• Ensuring the execution of necessary research to provide a thorough understanding of client needs, leading to responsive design solutions
• Communicating design intent to clients in a clear, compelling way
• incorporating design requirements and goals to demonstrate creative and unique design solutions
• Overseeing the preparation and delivery of design presentations to the clients and coordinating with consultants to achieve design goals on schedule and within budget
• Ensuring that graphic representations and construction documents clearly and accurately convey design intent

Business development and Marketing:

• Establish and maintain close relationships with clients to win business
• Collaborate with other Woods Bagot offices to increase opportunities and revenue from Global Corporate clients
• Strategize with the Marketing Group and office leadership on the Business Development approach for specific opportunities
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities in the commercial interiors market across New York and the broader East Coast region
• Work closely with Marketing Group to prepare fee proposals and write and/or edit appropriate sections of proposals
• Work with the Marketing Manager to integrate strategy and goals for the Interiors group into the marketing plan for the region with a focus on the NYC area
• Work closely with the marketing team to create presentations and other collateral materials to support business development efforts
• Provide content of public relations activities for press releases, feature articles, and advertisements
• Join professional, trade, and industry organizations and attend networking events, seeking opportunities to participate in seminars, panels, and speaking…