# Regional Workplace Strategy & Design Lead APAC

**Company**: Morgan Stanley
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Regional Workplace Strategy & Design Lead APAC to join our Real Estate Solutions (RES) team. The successful candidate will be responsible for aligning workplace strategies with local requirements and acting as a design authority for Asia.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Develop and implement regional workplace strategies to optimize real estate assets in APAC and India regions

- Serve as a senior design advisor to business and Corporate Services leadership, presenting workplace strategies, design recommendations, and project outcomes

- Lead stakeholder engagement across business units and functional partners, managing expectations and building consensus on design solutions and project objectives

- Translate global workplace strategy and standards into regionally appropriate design solutions across Asia and India

- Establish and enforce design governance, review protocols, and approval frameworks

- Lead and oversee external architects, interior designers, and workplace consultants

- Partner with Capital Projects and Construction teams to resolve design, documentation, and site issues

- Sponsor post-occupancy evaluations, lessons-learned reviews, and design performance reporting

**Requirements:**

- Minimum 15 years' experience in workplace architecture and/or interior design within commercial real estate environments

- Demonstrated leadership on large-scale, multi-country office portfolios in Asia, including India

- Proven track record managing landlord approvals, base-building interfaces, and high-density office fit-outs

- Professional degree in Architecture or Interior Architecture / Design

- Expert understanding of workplace planning, interior architecture, and corporate design standards

- Strong technical literacy across MEP coordination, life safety, and construction documentation

- Ability to operate at Director level, influencing senior stakeholders across regions and partnering with other functional leaders

**What You Can Expect from Morgan Stanley:**

- Opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are supported and empowered

- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks

- Ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work

## Skills

### Required
- workplace architecture
- interior design
- commercial real estate
- leadership
- stakeholder engagement
- design governance
- MEP coordination
- life safety
- construction documentation

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