Director of Interior Design

Director of Interior Design

Founded in 1912, STV is a leading national infrastructure-focused professional services firm providing engineering, architectural, planning, environmental, program management, and construction management services. Ranked No. 32 on ENR’s Top 500 Design Firms, STV brings 3,300+ professionals across 65+ offices to some of the most complex projects in the country. Learn more at stvinc.com.

STV’s New York interior design practice is in an active growth phase — deepening its expertise across health and wellbeing, science and technology, workplace, aviation and transportation facilities, civic and public-sector, and higher education projects. We are looking for a design leader who wants to shape the direction, standards, and reputation of that practice, not just fill a seat on a project.

Your Opportunity

As Director of Interior Design, you will lead STV’s interior design practice in New York — setting creative direction, holding the line on design quality and technical rigor from concept through construction completion, and building the team and standards that make that repeatable. Health and wellbeing is the practice’s deepest and fastest-growing market, and you will bring senior credibility to that work while leading across a diverse portfolio. This role carries design leadership, delivery accountability, staff development, and a client-facing presence that contributes directly to how the practice grows.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide creative and technical leadership for STV’s New York interior design practice — establishing design direction and quality expectations and carrying approved design intent from concept through construction completion.
• Lead interior design efforts across the full project lifecycle — programming, space planning, concept development, design development, construction documentation, bidding, construction administration, and closeout.
• Direct the preparation and review of complete, coordinated, and constructible interior design documents — drawings, schedules, details, specifications, and FF&E information — ensuring deliverables communicate the approved design intent, fulfill the contracted scope, and meet STV QA/QC standards.
• Lead health and wellbeing interior design work with senior technical command of the requirements that govern it — FGI Guidelines, ADA, life safety coordination, infection prevention design principles, and NYS DOH Article 28/36 licensing standards — and translate clinical workflows and evidence-based design principles into environments that support patient experience, staff performance, and long-term durability.
• Lead FF&E strategy, product research, material and furniture selection, finish schedules, specifications, and procurement coordination — with command of performance, durability, cleanability, and maintenance requirements across regulated and non-regulated environments.
• Lead coordination with architects, engineers, medical planners, consultants, manufacturers, vendors, and contractors — establishing quality reviews and ensuring coordination issues and review comments are resolved before issuance.
• Lead or provide senior oversight of bidding, construction administration, field observations, mock-up evaluations, and closeout — ensuring construction-phase decisions respond to contractual, cost, schedule, and constructability requirements while maintaining design intent.
• Lead project teams through clear work plans, responsibilities, deliverables, and review milestones — and work with project leadership to align scope, staffing, schedule, fee, and quality expectations and identify delivery risks early.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement with executive leadership, clinical and operational leadership, facilities teams, and end users — converting complex operational and experiential input into clear interior design direction.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and lead design workshops, presentations, and key project decisions — supporting practice growth through client relationship development, pursuit strategy, proposals, and interviews.
• Strengthen interior design standards, workflows, quality practices, Revit protocols, and lessons learned in collaboration with STV’s architecture, engineering, technical, and BIM leadership.
• Develop staff through active mentorship, professional development, and career guidance — building the long-term depth of the practice while holding teams accountable for design qu…