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Design Manager - Complex Architectural Projects

Columbus, Franklin County💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-07

Core

Lead client-facing architectural and interiors projects from strategy through post-occupancy, serving as a trusted advisor and project leader.

Role type

Senior Design Manager / Project Lead

Builds

Workplace, mixed-use, education, healthcare, and critical facilities

Domain

Architecture and Interiors

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Registered Architect or Interior Designer, 10+ years leading complex projects, financial performance management, multidisciplinary team leadership, consultant coordination, strategic client advising

Preferred skills

Business development support, resource planning, project narrative documentation

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Serve as primary client contact and guide project strategy, lead day-to-day delivery and manage budgets/schedules, review project accounting and contracts, coordinate structural/MEP/lighting/AV/landscape/civil consultants, support business development and staffing planning

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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