Director

**About the Role** This is an opportunity to join one of the country’s largest privately-held mixed-use developers in a senior design leadership role with broad scope and real creative authority. The Studio is WS Development’s in-house team of architects and designers—responsible for shaping the design ethos, built environment, and tenant and customer experience across a portfolio of over 100 properties nationwide. We’re looking for a Director who brings a strong design instinct—someone with genuine taste, an eye for detail, and the authority to raise the bar on design quality across a complex, high-velocity portfolio. The ideal candidate has deep experience in retail, hospitality, or mixed-use environments, and brings both the design vision to set standards and the technical fluency to see them through execution. This person will shape design across the portfolio, own key cross-functional relationships, and play a meaningful role in Studio operations. WS is fast-paced and committed to best-in-class outcomes. We’re looking for someone who finds real satisfaction in results -- and who wants to do some of the best work of their career in a design-forward, entrepreneurial environment. **Key Responsibilities** **Design Leadership** * Serve as a senior design voice within the Studio, with meaningful authority to define quality standards and push the aesthetic bar across tenant fit-outs, new development, and the public realm. * Develop and apply clear design standards, guidelines, and documentation for internal and external stakeholders—including property-specific criteria and Tenant Design Manuals—that reflect WS’s aspirations for each asset. * Act as a creative resource and design ambassador in work with tenants, consultants, and internal partners—able to make the case for design with both authority and diplomacy. * Contribute to the design of the broader built environment, including architecture, landscape, signage and wayfinding, and the public realm. **Project Oversi