Director, Interior Design

 

 

The Interior Design Leader is responsible for elevating design excellence across the organization. This role ensures all interior designs achieve high levels of aesthetic quality, technical accuracy, customer desirability, and business viability. The position leads the creation and stewardship of scalable selection systems, including capsule collections, kits-of-parts, guardrails, and standards, that integrate buyer insights, field feedback, and market expectations. The Interior Design Leader partners closely with the Architecture Design Leader and cross-functional teams to create beautiful, livable, profitable homes aligned with company strategy.

 

• Translates product strategy into interior design standards, capsule collections, kits-of-parts, and reusable selection systems.
• Defines and refines distinct capsule identities with clear stylistic parameters, ensuring collections remain differentiated, cohesive, and aligned with target buyer demographics.
• Provides creative direction that translates conceptual vision into actionable, executable design standards and minimizes downstream reinterpretation.
• Establishes clear design rationale, material strategies, and architectural alignment early in the process to support stronger decision-making and reduce rework.
• Grounds design decisions in local market and buyer-based reasoning rather than one-off preferences.
• Ensures capsule collections maintain integrity over time by evaluating reselections, vendor substitutions, and field-driven changes against original design intent.
• Builds a coherent, repeatable Azori Interior Design Language.

Design Excellence & Customer Experience

• Delivers luxury-grade, cohesive interiors that translate the exterior expression into interior spaces and resonate with buyers.
• Ensures homes are holistically designed: interiors, architecture, materials, lighting, and spatial planning working together as a cohesive experience that meets target buyers’ lifestyle needs.
• Drives elevated, timeless design solutions rooted in strong architectural thinking, restraint, proportion, and materiality rather than trend-chasing.
• Maintains high standards for detailing, composition, and execution so design intent translates successfully from concept through construction.
• Designs research questions and engage buyers and agents to test new ideas and validate key hypotheses.
• Uses buyer insights, market comps, and lifestyle data to guide design direction.

Margin Improvement Through Smarter Design & Procurement Partnership

• Partners with Procurement to strategically source capsule collections.
• Improves margins via standardization and value engineering.
• Ensures designs meet customer needs while conforming to project budgets.
• Leads “Design-to-Value” work to determine high-impact features.

Cycle-Time Reduction through Technology & AI

• Implements AI-enabled workflows across selection tools, visualization, and digital libraries.
• Drives simplification and automation of ID deliverables, including migration to Revit and related technologies, to improve coordination, speed, accuracy, consistency, scalability, and reduce downstream errors.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partners with Architecture, Procurement, Construction, Land Acquisition, Sales, Home Experience, and Marketing teams to align design goals.
• Champions clear ownership and accountability structures across cross-functional teams.
• Represents design intent in design reviews, cross-functional decisions, and executive discussions.
• Ensures alignment between design systems, operational constraints, and customer expectations.
• Builds a culture of creative partnership where design cohesion is a shared outcome, not a downstream hand-off.

Leadership & Team Development

• Leads a team of designers (approximately 5-8) with a mentorship mindset: actively developing and inspiring designers through coaching, technical guidance, collaborative critique, and strategic involvement rather than task delegation.
• Fosters an environment where designers contribute ideas, build category ownership, and strengthen cross-functional confidence with Architecture, Procurement, Construction, Land Acquisition, Sales, Home Experience, and Marketing.
• Provides clear, timely, and actionable feedback that helps designers grow both creatively and technically.
• Builds trust through transparency, consistency, and clear communication, ensuring teams understand priorities, expectations, and the reasoning behind key design decisions.
• Establishes clear expectations, accountability structures, workflows, and development pathways.
• Identifies and helps recruit strong design talent aligned with organizational needs.
• Participates in all employee lifecycle activities including but not limited to: interviewing, onboarding, training, mentoring, conducting weekly 1-on-l's, just-in-time coaching, disciplinary actions, performing regular performance reviews, and offboarding.

• This position requires frequent use of a computer, including keyboard functions and visual acuity of 20 inches or fewer on a daily basis.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk, working on a computer, and attending meetings.
• Ability to move throughout an office environment frequently throughout the day.
• Must be able to work in office Monday – Friday, within core business hours of 8AM–5PM.

Hours & Compensation
This is a full-time position paying $115,500 - $214,500 (+ discretionary bonus). The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Individual placement within a salary range will vary based upon factors including but not limited to candidate experience, knowledge, individual, skills, and organizational performance.