Jobs at Workstead

Workstead is an award-winning, multidisciplinary design firm established in 2009. Since its founding, Workstead has earned acclaim for one-of-a-kind projects that are comprehensive in vision and exacting in detail. Celebrated as “connoisseurs of craftsmanship” in the AD100 ranking of the world’s leading designers, Stefanie Brechbuehler, Robert Highsmith, and Ryan Mahoney oversee Workstead from studios in Brooklyn and Hudson, New York.  

Workstead’s Brooklyn studio is home to more than 20 professionals specializing in interiors and building. Homeowners, hospitality entrepreneurs, and real estate developers seek out the practice for places of beauty and necessity. These commissions foster genuine connections to site and community while surpassing the client’s needs, and they are executed with a signature restraint. 

The Hudson, New York, studio is dedicated to lighting. Workstead conceives lighting for its own interiors and building projects, and it designs lighting collections for trade professionals and retail consumers. As visual statements and tactile objects, Workstead’s luminaires embody longevity in design and fabrication. In large-scale lighting commissions, they contribute vitally to a space’s atmosphere and performance.  

Throughout its body of work, Workstead employs a design process that is both disciplined and collaborative, practically minded and culturally resonant. While each commission has unique demands, Workstead’s methodology consistently aspires to meld historic precedent, progressive expression, and honest construction.