Los Angeles Interior Design Leader – Workplace

About Woods Bagot – Architecture for Worlds Ahead

We design places that meet the challenges and opportunities of our rapidly changing world. Our commitment to exploration, impact and community creates enduring, forward‑thinking outcomes, unlocking humanity’s highest potential.

With a global design culture devoted to creativity, resilience, and purpose – we ensure every project contributes to our client’s vision, inspiring future generations.

About the Role

With a reputation for designing workplaces that blend pragmatic delivery with high-concept thinking, our West Coast studio specializes in environments shaped by narrative, experience, and hospitality. We work with some of the most innovative clients – new ventures and established names alike – who want design that puts people and culture first. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow alongside California’s leadership team within a thriving, collaborative studio, with pathways for development locally, regionally, and globally.

As the interior design lead, you will be responsible for guiding the creative direction, strategy, and delivery of high-impact projects. You’ll lead across all project phases – championing design quality, fostering collaboration, and cultivating strong client relationships. Your leadership will play a key role in shaping progressive, human-centered workplace environments that reflect our clients’ brand, culture, and future ambitions.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Practice Leadership and Management :

• Provide leadership and motivation to the Los Angeles Studio, specifically the Workplace Interiors team
• Lead the interior design process from concept through completion on key commercial projects
• Collaborate with clients, consultants, and internal teams to deliver integrated, high-performance design solutions
• Establish and foster relationships with existing and new clients, afford new project opportunities, and collaborate with the Business Development / Marketing / PR + Comms (BDMC) Team to prepare proposals to pursue new projects
• Establish a culture of design excellence in commercial interior projects in LA and across the West Coast and the North America region
• Foster a commitment to exceptional client service
• Provide mentorship to others within the practice
• Develop and review fee proposals, budgets, and financial projections
• Utilize and encourage best uses of technology for design, presentation, and production
• Manage design presentations, documentation, and quality control across all project phases.
• Manage the design solution by :
• Ensuring the execution of necessary research to provide a thorough understanding of client needs, leading to responsive design solutions
• Communicating design intent to clients in a clear, compelling way
• incorporating design requirements and goals to demonstrate creative and unique design solutions
• Overseeing the preparation and delivery of design presentations to the clients and coordinating with consultants to achieve design goals on schedule and within budget
• Ensuring that graphic representations and construction documents clearly and accurately convey design intent

Business development and Marketing :

Staff Development :

About You

As a successful candidate, you are a highly motivated, creative, and resourceful leader with a strong collaborative spirit. You are committed to delivering business value for clients by applying bespoke solutions grounded in Woods Bagot’s research, design expertise, and industry experience.

You excel at conceptualizing and translating ideas into exceptional design outcomes, combining strong space planning abilities with a keen eye for detail and aesthetics. A natural collaborator and clear communicator, you bring a positive, professional presence to every interaction and presentation.

Required Experience and Skills :

How to Apply :

Please send your application via our Interior Design Leader – Workplace LinkedIn Job Post. Applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or names from agencies.  Mandatory requirement : It is an essential requirement that at the time of applying for this position applicants must have the legal right to work in the United States.

Inspiration. Innovation. Inclusiveness. We are Woods Bagot.

Woods Bagot is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

At Woods Bagot, we are committed to creating an environment where difference is celebrated, valued and respected, practices are equitable and our people feel like they belong. We accept that none of us is smarter than all of us. We believe building a diverse workforce is the foundation to creativity and innovative design – it is only by working together that we can realize the potential of our people, clients and communities around us. Through our inclusive leadership and our truly global studio network of architects and designers, you will find your voice and have the support and flexibility required to bring your whole self to work and build an exceptional career.