| Location | Dallas, TX |
Are you a studio or design manager within a high-end interior design practice, or a senior designer ready to step into a studio leadership role?
An established luxury residential interior design studio is seeking an exceptional Studio Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of our Dallas studio.
This is a pivotal role within the business—acting as the right hand to the Principal and ensuring the studio runs seamlessly across multiple high-end residential projects.
You will oversee project flow, support and guide the design team, and maintain momentum across all stages of delivery. With the Principal often working across locations, you will be responsible for holding the studio together operationally—ensuring clarity, accountability, and consistency across every project.
This role requires a thoughtful balance of design sensibility, operational rigour, and confident, steady leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Studio Leadership & Team Oversight
●Act as the central point of coordination for the Dallas studio
●Support, guide, and hold accountability across senior, mid-level designers, and assistants
●Monitor team workload, priorities, and deadlines across all projects
●Check in regularly with team members to ensure progress, clarity, and support
●Step in to troubleshoot challenges and unblock issues quickly
●Maintain a calm, structured, and solutions-focused studio environment
●Act as a trusted extension of the Principal in her absence, ensuring continuity across all projects and studio operations
●Maintain the smooth running of the studio, ensuring decisions are implemented clearly and effectively
●Identify and escalate key moments requiring the Principal’s input, with clarity and foresight
●Translate the Principal’s design direction into actionable guidance for the team
●Work closely with the Principal’s Executive Assistant to manage her time as a critical project resource—anticipating when her input is required and ensuring availability for key design decisions, client meetings, and project milestones
●Plan ahead to structure the Principal’s involvement across the week, balancing high-level oversight with protected time for focused design input
●Oversee communication across all projects, ensuring clarity, consistency, and momentum at every stage
●Guide and support designers in their coordination with clients, contractors, and consultants
●Maintain visibility across all project correspondence, stepping in where needed to provide direction or resolve issues
●Ensure information flows effectively—confirming the team has what they need, when they need it
●Hold accountability across the team, following up to ensure key actions, decisions, and communications are progressed in a timely manner
●Oversee the structure and integrity of all project documentation across the studio
●Support and guide designers in maintaining accurate FF&E schedules, procurement logs, and project records
●Ensure information is organized, aligned, and readily accessible at all times
●Notice and resolve gaps in process or documentation before they impact delivery
●Thoughtfully evolve studio systems to bring greater clarity, efficiency, and ease to the way projects are run
●Proven experience within high-end residential interior design, in a design management, studio management, or senior project management role
●A strong background in luxury project delivery, with a clear understanding of the pace, detail, and expectations of private residential clients
●Experience leading or overseeing designers and multiple projects simultaneously within a design-led studio environment
●Deep familiarity with FF&E processes, procurement, and the realities of bespoke design coordination
●Excellent organizational skills, with meticulous attention to detail and a respect for process
●A confident and considered communicator, able to guide, challenge, and support a team with clarity
●Commercial awareness, including experience managing budgets, tracking costs, and aligning design intent with financial parameters
●Proactive, calm under pressure, and highly solutions-driven
●Comfortable operating independently while remaining closely aligned with the Principal and overall studio direction
●Proficient in Studio Designer
●Working knowledge of design documentation and processes (CAD understanding beneficial)
Salary & Benefits
• Competitive salary based on experience
• Opportunity to work on high-end, design-led projects
To apply for this position, please submit:
your resume, portfolio, technical drawing sets and three professional references, as outlined below.
All experience, references and statements related to your application or candidacy are presumed to be truthful and accurate and are subject to validation. Providing false or misleading information, or omitting relevant information, may be grounds for the withdrawal of any application or candidacy. References from former peers and colleagues, rather than the employer itself, may be deemed insufficient and additional information may be required. Design Management Company has sole and exclusive discretion to determine whether the information provided by a candidate is sufficient.
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