Senior Designer
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About the Role
Expo City Dubai is hiring a Senior Designer to lead and personally produce design for interior fit-out and workplace projects. This hands-on role requires 10+ years of UAE experience, client-facing skills, and proficiency in AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Revit.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and personally produce design across concept, schematic, detail, and construction documentation for interior fit out and workplace projects
- Own the client design relationship from brief to handover: present, listen, defend, and adapt
- Design to budget: translate briefs into commercially viable schemes and value engineer without losing the idea
- Manage FF&E and materials procurement: specification, sourcing, supplier negotiation, samples, and lead times
- Direct contractors and subcontractors on design intent: review shop drawings, resolve site queries, and protect design quality through construction
- Prepare design packages for landlord and authority approvals in Dubai, and specify materials within sustainability frameworks including LEED requirements
- Build the systems the studio runs on: design standards, material libraries, templates, and quality review processes
- Hire, mentor, and develop designers as the studio grows
Requirements
- 10+ years in interior design and fit out, with substantial UAE experience and a portfolio of built work
- Experience in a design and build or commercially accountable environment
- Direct client facing experience at decision maker level
- Hands on procurement experience: specified, sourced, negotiated, and chased materials
- Fluency in AutoCAD, SketchUp, 3ds Max and/or Revit, and Adobe Creative Suite, with working BOQ literacy
- Ability to move efficiently from concept through technical documentation, procurement, and delivery
- Familiarity with Dubai authority and landlord approval processes
- Transparency by default: raise problems early and bring options
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Role Overview
- This is a working design leadership role. You will design every week.
- You will also lead: clients, procurement, contractors on design matters, and in time a growing design team.
- We are hiring the person who owns design across the studio, rolls up their sleeves, from concept sketch to as built, and who builds the department around the way they, and we, work.
- You report directly to the Managing Director and on a project basis to the Projects Director.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead and personally produce design across concept, schematic, detail, and construction documentation for interior fit out and workplace projects
- Own the client design relationship from brief to handover: present, listen, defend the design where it should be defended, and adapt it where the client is right
- Design to budget. Translate briefs into commercially viable schemes and value engineer without losing the idea
- Manage FF&E and materials procurement: specification, sourcing, supplier negotiation, samples, and lead times
- Direct contractors and subcontractors on design intent: review shop drawings, resolve site queries, and protect design quality through construction
- Prepare design packages for landlord and authority approvals in Dubai, and specify materials within sustainability frameworks including LEED requirements
- Build the systems the studio runs on: design standards, material libraries, templates, and quality review processes
- Hire, mentor, and develop designers as the studio grows
Essential Qualifications
- 10+ years in interior design and fit out, with substantial UAE experience and a portfolio of built work. Delivered projects, not concepts
- Experience in a design and build or otherwise commercially accountable environment, where your design decisions carried cost consequences you owned
- Direct client facing experience at decision maker level
- Hands on procurement experience: you have specified, sourced, negotiated, and chased materials yourself
- Fluency across the core design toolset: AutoCAD, SketchUp, 3ds Max and/or Revit, and Adobe Creative Suite, with working BOQ literacy.
- The ability to move efficiently from concept through technical documentation, procurement, and delivery.
- Familiarity with Dubai authority and landlord approval processes
- Transparency by default. When a problem appears on a project, you raise it early and bring options
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience with Enscape, V Ray, or similar visualization tools
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