Interior Designer

Basic Function: Lead and support the firm’s interior design team while actively developing and executing creative, functional, and technically sound interior design solutions. Provide day-to-day design leadership, mentorship, and coordination to ensure consistent, high-quality project delivery that meets client objectives, budgets, and schedules.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and mentorship to the interior design team.
• Coordinate with project managers design fees related to interiors scope
• Collaborate with clients and project teams to develop creative, functional, and practical interior design solutions.
• Lead interior design efforts through schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration.
• Prepare and coordinate design documents, renderings, finish plans, schedules, specifications, and related project materials.
• Select and specify interior materials, finishes, furniture, fixtures, equipment, lighting, and color schemes.
• Develop programming and space planning solutions based on client needs and project requirements.
• Coordinate interior design requirements with architects, engineers, consultants, vendors, and other project team members.
• Review interior design work for quality, consistency, and adherence to firm standards, project budgets, and schedules.
• Develop and implement firm interiors design standards to ensure consistency in workflow and presentation of documents
• Assist in business development opportunities to establish relationships with Hospitality and/or interiors lead project types

Qualifications/Skills Required

• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate with design professionals.
• Proficiency in Revit and knowledge of 3-D rendering programs such as Twinmotion, Enscape, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of interior design principles, materials, finishes, furniture, lighting, and specifications.
• Strong design, visualization, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to balance aesthetics, functionality, building systems, project requirements, and budgets.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, and client-service skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Teams, etc.).

Education/Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible interior design experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects and providing guidance or mentorship to other designers, and understanding of fee management
• Experience working within an architecture, engineering, or multidisciplinary design environment preferred.
• NCIDQ Certification preferred.

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop; kneel; bend; sit; crouch; and talk; and hear. The employee is required to sit for a substantial amount of time. The employee must be able to lift and/or move at least 10lbs occasionally (overhead, waist level) from the floor. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and depth perception.