Senior Interior Designer, Health and Wellbeing

Senior Interior Designer, Health and Wellbeing

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 National Healthcare Practice is in an active growth phase — expanding its geographic reach, deepening its clinical expertise, and building a team capable of delivering complex health and wellbeing environments for academic medical centers, integrated health systems, public-sector clients, and ambulatory networks. We are looking for senior leaders who want to help shape that trajectory, not just fill a seat on a project.

Your Opportunity

As Senior Interior Designer, you will provide design leadership across health and wellbeing projects — from visioning and concept development through documentation, construction administration, and closeout. You will translate client goals, clinical operational needs, and evidence-based design principles into interior environments that support patient experience, staff performance, and long-term facility durability. This role operates at the intersection of design excellence and technical rigor, requires a senior client-facing presence, and contributes directly to STV’s pursuit and business development efforts in the health and wellbeing market.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead interior design efforts across health and wellbeing projects from pre-design and programming through construction administration and closeout — maintaining design intent, technical continuity, and quality standards throughout.

• Drive concept development and design strategy — translating client mission, brand, patient and caregiver experience goals, clinical workflows, and evidence-based design principles into cohesive interior environments across a range of health and wellbeing project types.

• Lead FF&E strategy, product research, material and furniture selection, finish schedules, and procurement coordination — with a thorough understanding of healthcare-appropriate performance standards, durability, cleanability, and infection prevention requirements.

• Prepare and lead interior finish and FF&E specifications, ensuring technical accuracy, alignment with project requirements, healthcare industry standards, and STV QA/QC expectations.

• Apply working knowledge of applicable codes, guidelines, and clinical environment requirements — including FGI Guidelines, ADA, life safety coordination, infection control design principles, and state DOH standards — as they apply to interior design scope.

• Coordinate interior design decisions with architecture, medical planning, MEP/FP, technology, signage and wayfinding, sustainability, and specialty consultant teams — ensuring integrated delivery across all disciplines.

• Facilitate stakeholder engagement with healthcare executives, clinical leadership, facilities teams, infection prevention representatives, and end users — translating complex operational and experiential input into clear interior design direction.

• Ensure all interior design documentation meets STV QA/QC standards, project-specific client requirements, and healthcare operational expectations — and lead or participate in interdisciplinary reviews, mock-up evaluations, and milestone deliverable reviews.

• Support business development through pursuit strategy, design narrative development, interview preparation, and client presentations — contributing to STV’s positioning in the health and wellbeing market.

• Mentor junior designers and emerging health and wellbeing interior design professionals — sharing technical and design knowledge, modeling client-ready professional judgment, and actively contributing to the long-term depth of the practice.

• Contribute to practice growth by identifying follow-on opportunities with current clients, participating in lessons-learned processes, and helping advance the quality and consistency of STV’s health and wellbeing interior design offering.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, or Architecture from an accredited program.

• Active NCIDQ certification — required.

• 12+ years of industry experience, with 10+ years of healthcare interior design experience within that total.

• Demonstrated knowledge of applicable codes, guidelines, and standards as they apply to interior design scope — including FGI Guidelines, ADA, infection control design principles, and state DOH requirements.

• Proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and SketchUp.