🕒 2 days ago
Leads creative direction across client accounts, guiding strategic design projects from pitch and kickoff through delivery while building client partnerships, mentoring designers, and developing the team.
Design Director
📅 Apr 28
Interior DesignCreative DirectionTeam LeadershipTeam Oversight
📜 Description
- Lead creative direction across high-end hospitality and residential design work.
- Oversee team output and project quality control.
- Shape the role’s scope, including team structure, management expectations, and strategic versus hands-on involvement.
- Define initial deliverables as the role is further scoped.
🛠️ Requirements
- Highly experienced design professional.
- Strong leadership capability in a boutique, high-performance environment.
- Ability to align with the founder’s design philosophy and working style.
- Leadership approach and personality fit suited to the studio.
✨ Benefits
- Align design decisions and working practices with the founder’s vision and studio standards.
Full job description
Client Overview
A Cape Town-based luxury interior design studio specialising in high-end hospitality and residential environments. The studio operates with a boutique structure and places strong emphasis on creative leadership, design excellence, and close alignment with its founder’s vision.
Role Summary
This is a future-facing leadership role and not the immediate hiring priority. The position will require a highly experienced design professional capable of leading creative direction, managing team output, and aligning closely with the founder’s vision and studio standards.
The role is currently loosely defined, as the existing function evolved organically within the business. A more structured brief will be developed following the completion of current hiring priorities.
Requirements
Key Considerations (Preliminary)
- Will require strong leadership capability within a boutique, high-performance environment
- Likely responsible for team oversight, creative direction, and project quality control
- Must align closely with the founder’s design philosophy and working style
- Personality fit and leadership approach will be critical
Next Steps / Role Definition
- Further scoping required around:
- First 3–6 month deliverables
- Team structure and management expectations
- Strategic vs hands-on design involvement
- This is expected to be a niche search requiring careful calibration
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