Senior Designer

Ladwig Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ladwig Consulting in Dubai seeks a Senior Designer to lead luxury interior design projects across residential, hospitality, and commercial sectors. You will head the design process, mentor junior designers, and ensure timely delivery from concept to completion.

You will manage FF&E packages, present concepts to clients, and refine schemes with a focus on quality, detail, and client satisfaction. Dubai-based role with strong leadership expectations.

Qualifications

• Recognised interior design/architecture qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• Extensive experience delivering luxury interior design projects from concept to completion.
• Strong FF&E knowledge and understanding of the construction process.

Responsibilities

• Lead design across all project areas, including finishes, details and FF&E packages.
• Inspire and oversee Designers, possibly across multiple projects, with strong time management.
• Manage design process to meet deadlines agreed with Project Leader.
• Document client briefs clearly and relay tasks to the design team.
• Present design concepts with imagery, materials, and reports to clients.
• Develop concepts into realistic schemes and lead presentation documents (InDesign).
• Drive FF&E design and procurement budgets and specifications.

Skills

Team leadership

Construction knowledge

Client presentation

Education

Interior Design/Architecture qualification

Job description

Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 06/12/2025

Our client is a distinguished architecture and interior design firm based in Dubai, renowned for crafting bespoke, elegant, and enduring spaces across residential, hospitality, and commercial sectors. With a commitment to sustainability, cutting-edge BIM technology, and seamless FF&E procurement, the company delivers premium, client-centric solutions—from master planning and technical design to construction supervision. They are seeking a Senior Designer who can lead the design and can motivate the designers.

Responsibilities:

• Main design lead for all areas of each project. Including finishes, details and full FF+E packages
• Leading, inspiring, motivating and overseeing the Designers, potentially across multiple projects at once. Time management crucial.
• Manage the design process to meet the deadlines as agreed with Project Leader.
• Ability to understand and document a full client brief and comprehensively relay information to the whole design team, set specific tasks and ensure productive use of all Designers' time.
• Clear understanding of Scopes of Works with the ability to analyse a project in terms of the design deliverables required.
• Ensure the Client is fully aware of all design selections throughout the entire process, through detailed presentations including imagery, materials and reports.
• Deliver confident and inspiring presentations in order to gain and maintain the Clients' trust throughout the process.
• Leading and creating inspirational design concepts and schemes through mood imagery and sketches and effectively communicating them to the team and client.
• Developing concepts and schemes into realistic designs.
• Overseeing Designer and Junior Designer to prepare presentation documents (InDesign) and leading the style and look of the creative concept.
• Produce a series of useable layout options for presentation to the Client/team.
• Responsible for all design decisions, for example, proportion, practicality, scale.
• Completely competent in the full FF&E design and Procurement process.
• Driving design process of FF&E including budgets, specifications and procurement.
• Leading the team in problem solving throughout entire design process resolving inevitable issues that arise when translating concept into realistic scheme; reviewing constraints of site; budget issues and timelines.
• Designing and detailing all joinery and construction details and communicating efficiently to the CAD/REVIT resource for documentation.
• Strong knowledge of the interior construction and detailing process.

Requirements

• Recognised qualification in Interior Design/Architecture or relevant industry experience.
• Extensive experience in the successful delivery of luxury interior design projects, either luxury hospitality or high end residential, from concept to completion and all aspects of the full design process.
• Excellent FF&E and Supplier knowledge.
• Excellent knowledge of the construction process, fabrication and detailing.
• Prior experience managing the design process and design team to ensure all deliverables and objectives are met.