Senior Design Consultant

About the Role

Do you love guiding clients from early discoveries to fully realized, human‑centered workplace solutions? Are you energized by leading workshops, influencing decisions with storytelling and insights, and translating ideas into actionable design plans? Do you thrive in a client‑facing role where your work shapes how organizations imagine their future workplace?

Why Steelcase?

Steelcase offers competitive wages and benefits to support your life in and out of work. Our hybrid work schedule provides flexibility, allowing you to choose where you work best—in the office, at home, or somewhere in between. Learning is the foundation of everything we do, with ample development opportunities to grow and upskill. Culture is a lifestyle at Steelcase, and we live it every day. You'll have the opportunity to make a positive impact on the world through Steelcase’s commitment to people and planet, supporting meaningful work that brings deeper motivation, purpose, and fulfillment to our lives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead space-planning and consulting assignments, from gathering requirements to facilitating workshops and presenting concepts to clients.
• Develop influence-based consulting activities with decision-makers and specifiers to promote Steelcase’s value and shift customer mindsets.
• Translate insights, research, and client needs into actionable design solutions, layouts, feasibility studies, and space plans.
• Build and sustain long-term client relationships, supporting them from discovery through delivery and adoption of new spaces.
• Create compelling visuals, presentations, 3D renderings, and tailored project materials for clear communication.
• Support junior Design Consultants by offering guidance, feedback, and project coordination.
• Stay ahead of workplace and design trends by researching emerging practices and anticipating customer needs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in interior architecture, interior design, or architecture.
• Strong consulting mindset with the ability to facilitate workshops, challenge assumptions, and influence decisions.
• Experience in interior architecture and consulting, with the capability to engage clients, gather insights, and translate needs into design solutions.
• Comfort with public speaking, client presentations, and persuasive communication.
• High proficiency in French (C1/native) and fluency in English for client-facing consulting, workshops, and presentations.
• Portfolio required: Please include your portfolio when applying. Applications without a portfolio cannot be considered.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience in Design & Build or consulting environments, with the ability to engage diverse customer groups and adapt consulting style accordingly.
• Strong influencing and storytelling skills, able to shift customer mindsets using insights, research, and compelling narratives.
• Working knowledge of change-management principles and how workplace strategy supports organizational evolution.
• Solid project-management fundamentals, including structuring missions, organizing phases, and coordinating stakeholders.
• Ability to scope and price consulting missions, understanding effort, deliverables, and value.
• Analytical and insight-driven mindset, capable of interpreting findings and translating them into actionable recommendations.
• Open, adaptable, and collaborative working style, favoring customer-focused solutions over rigid artistic approaches.

About Steelcase

Steelcase is a global design and thought leader in the world of work. Along with our expansive community of brands, we design and manufacture innovative furnishings and solutions to help people do their best work in the many places where work happens.

Steelcase provides employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, genetic information, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or veteran status and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. If we can make the application process easier through accommodation, please email us at myhr@steelcase.com.

Key Skills/Competency

• Design Consulting
• Workplace Strategy
• Client Relationship Management
• Space Planning
• Presentation Skills
• Workshop Facilitation
• Interior Architecture
• Project Management
• Change Management
• Influencing Skills