Lead Interior Design Project Manager (Hybrid/Remote)

Cushman & Wakefield; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Retirement savings plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Project Design Manager to lead a team of design professionals, guiding projects from concept through construction documentation. The role emphasizes managing timelines, budgets, and design standards while coordinating with architects, engineers, and vendors across diverse accounts.

The ideal candidate brings 4+ years of professional design experience and strong leadership, communication, and Revit expertise to deliver safe, functional, and aesthetically

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a CIDA or NAAB accredited institution in Architecture or Interior Design.
• 4+ years of professional design experience.
• 4+ years of Revit experience in a professional setting.
• Excellent time management, communication, collaboration, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines, in addition to the ability to work independently.
• Must be able to lead a team effort, and delegate work to all team members to enable them to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of design professionals, providing guidance, feedback, and support on design projects from initial sketch through start of construction.
• Develop and manage team project timelines, budgets, standards, varying complexity of projects, and resource allocation.
• Support Project Designers in quality review of design deliverables.
• Ensures that all new processes and design standards are communicated to Project Designers and implemented within documentation.
• Review and confirm all preliminary space plans and design concepts are safe, functional, aesthetically appropriate, and meet all public health, safety, and applicable code requirements.
• Review selection and specifications of furniture, fixtures, equipment, and millwork, including layout drawings and detailed product description to meet clients' requirements.
• Provide on-going training to team, related to space planning & design, program management and FF&E services.
• Develops client workplace standards; recommends new standards and looks for continued improvements to the client workplace design.
• Contribute experience to the interior environment with knowledge and skills about space planning, interior building materials and finishes; casework, furniture, furnishings, and equipment; lighting; acoustics; wayfinding; ergonomics and anthropometrics; and human environmental behavior.
• Work independently or with minor oversight to perform assignments including conceptual design, schematic design, design development, space planning and construction documentation.
• Oversees and helps to direct all third-party relationships with architects, engineers, etc.
• Provide extensive and rapid-fire knowledge of FF&E vendors and resources to the team

Skills

Architectural drawings

Leadership

Time management

Communication

Revit

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or Interior Design

Tools

Revit

Job description

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Project Design Manager to lead a team of design professionals, guiding projects from concept through construction documentation. The role emphasizes managing timelines, budgets, and design standards while coordinating with architects, engineers, and vendors across diverse accounts.

The ideal candidate brings 4+ years of professional design experience and strong leadership, communication, and Revit expertise to deliver safe, functional, and aesthetically