Your Role

As a Gensler Senior Interior Designer, your job is to combine creativity and technical skills with a thorough understanding of the design to produce highly creative, environmentally conscious and budget responsive spaces for clients. You should have exceptional conceptual design skills, a background in hospitality design or interior architecture and a portfolio of innovative design concepts.

This position will be based in Melbourne.

What You Will Do

Lead interior design assignments across F&B, hospitality, and lounge projects, including concept design, space planning, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, and construction administration
Provide creative and strategically minded design leadership, supporting the organisation, production, and execution of projects from concept through delivery
Collaborate seamlessly with internal and external teams, including consultants, contractors, fabricators, and specialist partners, to achieve design, programme, and budget objectives
Lead and participate in design development and iteration, producing 3D models and visualisations using Revit, SketchUp, Enscape (or similar)
Generate and review interior architectural drawings, driving technical resolution and detailing, ensuring design intent is clearly communicated and buildable
Work closely with product representatives, furniture dealers, and fabricators to realise design, brand, and budget goals
Act as a client-facing design lead, supporting presentations, managing feedback, and helping to build and sustain strong client relationships within the hospitality and F&B sector
Guide and mentor teams, supporting multiple projects at a high level while fostering a collaborative studio environment
Contribute to business development efforts, supporting the growth of the studio’s F&B and hospitality portfolio
Actively participate in office culture, initiatives, and learning programmes, promoting design excellence and an interdisciplinary approach across the studio

Your Qualifications

Highly creative interior designer with 8-10+ years' experience delivering F&B, hospitality, Retail or lounge projects from concept through delivery
Retail design experience would also be beneficial
Confident hands-on designer, actively creating, detailing, and driving projects while mentoring the team
Proven ability to run complex projects end-to-end, managing design, programme, budget, and stakeholders
Ability to craft memorable, brand-aligned interior environments that combine atmosphere, materiality, and spatial storytelling across diverse hospitality and F&B projects
Strong sector insight in F&B and hospitality, with a clear personal point of view and the ability to translate it into distinctive, commercially relevant designs
High proficiency in SketchUp, Revit, and Adobe Suite, ensuring efficient, high-quality project outputs
Strong technical and detailing capability, producing buildable, well-resolved interiors
Credible client lead with strong presentation skills, stakeholder management, and existing or developing F&B/hospitality contacts
Demonstrated appetite for business development, including growing client accounts and expanding the studio’s F&B portfolio
Trusted to represent the studio externally while remaining deeply involved in project delivery

Life at Gensler

As a people-first organization, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From internal design competitions to research grants to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. We offer profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities.

As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.

Interior Designer - Hospitality - Senior