Senior Interior Designer
Description
We are an award-winning design firm, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration. Our purpose-driven approach creates healthy places, strong communities and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary and help create lasting change. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today!
The role at a glance:
This is an excellent opportunity to join NBBJ Seattle as a Senior Interior Designer in our Corporate / Commercial / Life Science Interiors Practice. As a Senior Interior Designer, you will use your conceptual abilities to lead teams, combining design, craft, and client acumen to foster NBBJ’s design culture. As lead designer, you will work collaboratively with teams, delivering diverse projects to exceed our client’s expectations. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and teamwork skills, a beautiful portfolio of creative designs (with an emphasis on workplace projects) and the motivation to engage with the array of NBBJ’s resources in achieving high-performance, sustainable outcomes.
In your new role, you will:
- Lead interior design in pursuit of design excellence
- Provide mentoring and guidance to team members
- Lead clients through the design process, uncovering requirements and supporting the growth of their businesses and culture
- Develop and implement overall design concepts and finish palettes through all phases of design
- Lead client facing design presentations
What you will need to succeed:
- 10-15 years of professional experience in Interior Design
- Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Interior Design or Interior Architecture with a strong portfolio of realized interior projects
- Experience with large, complex commercial or corporate projects; life science is a plus
- LEED or WELL Accreditation or within 18 months of hire
- Excellent leadership, verbal and communication skills, and effective client relationship skills and talent for leading and working with diverse teams of designers
- Highly creative conceptual design and schematic design skills
- Strong graphic communication skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Deep understanding of selection and specification of materials and finishes
- Experienced in furniture selection and specification
- Desire to help drive innovative design solutions
- Proven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects with competing deadlines
- Ability to work in a collaborative, design focused open environment
- Ability to travel as the project(s) requires
The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $90,000 and $125,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.
Why choose NBBJ?
We believe that all NBBJ employees should love their work. This means not only loving what you do but having pride in your workplace. We strive to be that irresistible place to work by enhancing your employee experience with customized programs and comprehensive benefits. In addition to 100% covered employee healthcare costs and 401k contributions, we offer unique professional development opportunities, volunteer opportunities and access to leading technology and resources to further help you love your work and advance your career.
- NBBJ has been named three times by Fast Company as one of the most innovative architecture firms.
- Founded in 1943, our first office opened over 75 years ago in Seattle, Washington. We now have over 10 office locations around the globe.
- We are a transdisciplinary, cross-practice focused firm with a deep portfolio of Civic & Cultural, Commercial, Corporate, Healthcare, Higher Education, Science and Technology, Sports, and Urban Environment projects. We also have several areas of service expertise including: Architecture, Environmental Graphic Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, Workplace Consulting and more.
- In the past decade, NBBJ has received more than 300 awards from leading global, national and regional award programs across the business, real estate and design communities.
- We work with 5 of the top global high-tech companies, 14 of the U.S. News and World Report Top Hospitals, and 4 of the top 10 highest-ranked learning institutions.
- Our clients include institutional leaders such as Cambridge University, Google, Samsung, Cleveland Clinic, Tencent, and Stanford University.
NBBJ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F Disabled and Vet EEO/AA Employer.
NBBJ does not accept unsolicited resumes or similar submissions from third party recruiters or employment agencies. Any unsolicited materials received by NBBJ from a source other than an individual candidate will be considered NBBJ property and NBBJ reserves the right to pursue and hire candidates referred to us without any financial obligation to the third party in question. If you are interested in becoming an approved NBBJ external recruiter, please contact a member of the NBBJ Talent Acquisition Team.