Senior Interior Designer (Fashion Retail Interiors)

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum, dependent on experience

Location: London

Working pattern: Studio-based

Software: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Cinema 4D, and Adobe Creative Suite

Sector: Commercial interiors, fashion retail

About the studio

Some studios build a reputation by shouting. This one built it by delivering, project after project, for the better part of thirty years. It started in London in the late nineties and now runs as an international practice with studios across three continents, but the work has stayed recognisably itself: luxury done well, with craft that survives close inspection.

The portfolio is unusually wide. Private homes, large mixed-use schemes, hospitality destinations, and occasionally a yacht or a private jet when the brief allows. Fashion retail is where the studio has made its name, though. Flagship stores for globally recognised fashion houses, the sort that collect best-in-class store design awards with slightly irritating regularity. If you have ever stood in a beautifully resolved luxury store and wondered how the detailing was pulled off, the odds are decent you have already met their work.

Culturally, this is a place preoccupied with the things other practices quietly skip: how a space makes you feel, how a material behaves under a particular light, where the joint lands. Collaborative, ambitious, and still run by people who get visibly excited about design. Good room to be in if you want your work seen and used.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Interior Designer with a strong creative voice and a design process to match. This is a senior design role first and foremost. The studio wants someone who can shape the thinking behind a scheme, not just resolve it, and who can lead projects from first concept through to detailed design.

The timing is good. A strong pipeline of high-profile commercial and retail work is coming through, and the team is gearing up to meet it. You will land on live projects at different stages, pick up the thread quickly, and keep deadlines moving without diluting the idea. Commercial and retail experience is the starting point here, not a nice-to-have.

You will be a key voice in the room with clients and consultants, and a point of reference for the designers around you. They want someone who treats the commercial job a retail space has to do as part of the creative challenge, not a limit on it. If that reads like you, keep going.

Your days will look something like this...

• Leading the design process on retail and commercial projects, from brief and first concept through to detailed design
• Setting the creative direction on your schemes and protecting it through development
• Landing on live projects mid-flow, getting up to speed quickly, and keeping programme on track
• Presenting concepts and design development to clients with clarity and confidence
• Reviewing and guiding technical packages so the built space matches the idea
• Specifying materials, finishes, and detailing to a luxury standard
• Coordinating clients, consultants, contractors, and internal teams across several projects at once
• Supporting and guiding mid-weight and junior designers, and keeping the quality of the output consistent

You might be our perfect match if...

• You have senior-level commercial interior design experience, with retail at its core (essential)
• You have a strong, demonstrable creative process, and your portfolio shows how ideas develop, not just where they end up
• You have led projects from concept through to detailed design, ideally including luxury or fashion retail
• You are comfortable picking up live projects and running several deadlines at once
• You present well and hold your own with clients and consultants
• You know materials, finishes, and construction detailing in depth, not just by name
• You are fluent in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Cinema 4D, and Adobe Creative Suite
• Hospitality or wider commercial interiors experience alongside retail would be a welcome bonus

Why this one

• An award-winning studio with a serious reputation in luxury retail design
• A senior seat with real creative influence, not just delivery
• A strong pipeline of high-profile work, starting now
• A design-led team that still cares about the craft
• An international practice, so there is room to grow rather than plateau