Job Description

Studio Gang is seeking a creative, innovative, and collaborative individual to lead our interiors practice, based either in our Chicago or New York office. We design architecture and interiors hand in hand, and we are looking for someone who will thrive using this holistic approach. This role presents a significant opportunity to positively impact our entire practice, strengthening design excellence and innovation through developing unique design solutions for all projects. We are seeking someone who will relish this challenge and the collaborative work it takes to achieve it.

Responsibilities:
• Provide creative leadership for firmwide interiors work, overseeing design quality and innovation
• Seek design solutions that are unique to each project and location
• Mentor and develop the interiors team, fostering a culture of collaboration and design excellence
• Build and maintain strong client relationships
• Help to build out a financial model for our interiors practice
• Lead FF&E scope across a range of projects – including design, planning, budgeting, scheduling, vendor management, procurement, cost estimating, negotiations, onsite support and close-out

Requirements:
• Minimum 10 years of experience in design leadership, with at least 5 years leading a design studio or interiors team/department
• Curiosity to innovate and to develop unique material and detail solutions
• Proven track record of design excellence, with a portfolio of significant built work
• Excellent presentation, communication, and storytelling skills
• A probing mind with a collaborative spirit
• Confidence in leading from concept through execution
• Expertise in design management and technical know-how
• Interest in material research and craftmanship

Benefits:
Studio Gang provides a generous and competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as HSA and FSA options. Employees receive a minimum of 15 days of paid time off annually, with increases based on experience and tenure. The Studio also offers a 401(k) program featuring an annual Studio-sponsored Safe Harbor contribution. Additionally, all employees are eligible for discretionary bonuses and profit sharing, determined by individual performance and Studio profitability.

The salary range for this position at the time of posting is $130,000-$180,000. Final compensation will be commensurate with experience and location.

Studio Gang

Founded and led by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice based in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and Paris. Driven by an ethos of “actionable idealism”, the Studio uses an iterative, research-based design process to create places that build stronger relationships among people, communities, and the natural world. Studio Gang’s diverse portfolio ranges from cultural centers to strategic framework plans to high-rise towers. Notable among these is the recently completed Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which the New York Times called "a poetic, joyful, theatrical work of public architecture.” Current projects include the new United States Embassy in Brasilia, the University of Chicago’s European hub for study and research in Paris; Stanford University’s new Sustainability Commons and home for the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; and the new O’Hare Global Terminal in Chicago. For more information, visit www.studiogang.com.