Explore Interior Design Director jobs across the UK. Take on studio leadership and drive creative vision for high-impact interior projects.
Interior Design Directors are executive-level professionals responsible for creative strategy, studio leadership, and client-facing delivery at the highest level. These roles demand both design excellence and operational oversight — balancing innovation with commercial viability across large-scale, often global, interior projects.
Typically requiring 10+ years of industry experience, Directors shape team culture, mentor senior designers, win business, and guide design output across multiple projects or accounts. Whether in luxury residential, hospitality, workplace, or retail sectors, these roles require a blend of design intuition, strategic thinking, and people leadership. To assess compensation benchmarks for leadership-level roles, visit our Interior Design Salary Guide.
If you’re aiming to step into an Interior Design Director role or hiring for one, these FAQs will clarify expectations, career requirements, and leadership pathways.
A Design Director sets the creative vision across projects, leads high-level client relationships, manages senior teams, and contributes to business growth and studio reputation.
Design Directors operate at a strategic level — overseeing portfolios, guiding practice-wide direction, and shaping design identity, while Associates and Seniors typically lead individual projects.
Typically 10–15+ years of experience, a strong portfolio of award-winning work, proven leadership across teams and sectors, and strategic or commercial experience.
Salaries range from £70,000 to £100,000+, often with performance bonuses or equity options in larger or high-profile firms. Visit our Interior Design Salary Guide for details.
Luxury residential, commercial workplace, retail, hospitality, and branded environments are common — as well as multidisciplinary agencies and global design firms.
Not necessarily. Most focus on conceptual direction, quality control, and design oversight — although experience with Revit, AutoCAD, and Adobe Creative Suite remains useful.
Design Directors may progress to Partner, Creative Director (brand-wide), Global Head of Interiors, or even launch their own studio.
Hybrid flexibility is increasingly available, but most Director roles involve in-person leadership, studio culture building, and attending key presentations or pitches.
Meet the team at HAUS Careers. An Architecture and Design recruitment agency in London, we are a team of ex-industry professionals with varied backgrounds and specialist knowledge in a multiplicity of sectors. At HAUS we love design and have a passion for great Architecture.
Our varied backgrounds and relevant experience allow for a deeper understanding of our industry. Our expert knowledge of Architecture, BIM, Landscape, Interior Design, Urban Design and Creative Support allows us to identify talented professionals and the best practices.
We work with London’s best practices and ensure our candidates are always placed in the right environment. We have a great relationship with both our clients and candidates for this exact reason. We are always looking for the most talented designers and professionals to ensure our industry’s future continues to grow.
At HAUS we understand from experience that recruitment is more than just matching someone’s skillset to a job description.
We are always looking to launch professionals next step in the industry. That’s why we get to know our candidates. We welcome the opportunity to meet over a coffee, tea or beer (or all of the above) so we can get a stronger understanding of their career aspirations and match their specialist skills and experience to the right role.
If you know someone who you think would be suitable for one of our positions, then please do not hesitate to send your name, and the contact details for the person you are referring, to hello@hauscareers.com
If the person you refer is successfully placed, and they pass a three-month probationary period, you’ll receive £150, and we will also donate £150 to a charity of your choice.
There is no limit to the number of referrals you can make either.
Refer a friend and get a £300 referral fee when we get them a job.
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