Designer 2: Interior Design

About the role

Board & Vellum is seeking an enthusiastic Designer 2 to join our Interior Design team in Seattle, Washington. This role focuses on design for single-family homes within a dynamic architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture firm.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams to develop design concepts and documentation, ensuring alignment with client goals and project narratives.
• Pull beautiful design packages together, help curate gorgeous material palettes, and create work that you are proud of.
• Take ownership of your role producing project deliverables and engaging in project management tasks (with oversight), focusing on accuracy, quality, and meeting deadlines.
• Produce design documentation and technical drawings using Revit with precision and efficiency.
• Participate in a collaborative studio culture where your voice and ideas are welcome.

Requirements

• Experience: 3-5 years of professional design experience with single-family residential design experience required, and a degree in interior design.
• Technical Proficiency: Solid skills in Revit are a must. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite or Enscape is a plus.
• Documentation Skills: Experience with redlining and drafting, assembling contract documents, and understanding construction documents, finishes, and material applications.
• Execution-Oriented: Detail-oriented, highly organized, and adept at driving projects forward, meeting deadlines, and delivering high-quality results.
• Design Acumen: Passion for storytelling through creative eye for detail, understanding how spaces evoke emotion, and every design choice contributes to a cohesive narrative.
• Research & Compliance: Comfortable with researching finish systems, materials, fixtures, and product selections to support design decisions.
• FF&E Selection: Experience selecting and specifying furnishings, lighting, hardware, window coverings, materials, and finishes.
• FF&E Procurement: Experience creating FF&E proposal packages, purchase orders, and expediting to track furnishings from order through installation preferred.
• Communication Skills: Confident in communicating ideas, collaborating with teammates, and engaging with clients to bring designs to life.
• Excitement for a Variety of Project Types: Excited to work on custom residential, low and mid-rise multifamily residential and mixed-use, commercial, and civic projects.
• Multitasking: Ability to handle a variety of projects of varying scales at one time, staying organized and managing tasks effectively.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Interior Design or a related field, or equivalent working experience.
• Experience with Built Green, Passive House, or other sustainable practices earns bonus points.
• Proficiency in Revit, Adobe Creative Suite (especially InDesign and Photoshop), AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Microsoft Office, along with a general comfort with technology.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Well-honed graphic presentation and visual communication skills.
• Hand-sketching skills are a plus.
• Desire to be involved in every phase of projects.
• Proactive, engaged, and able to handle multiple projects and tasks.
• Passionate about asking questions and engaging in critique.
• Dedicated to a practice of constant learning and continuing education.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, creative environment.

Skills

• Revit
• Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop)
• AutoCAD
• Sketchup
• Microsoft Office

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience, range: $74k-$83k.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Paid professional memberships.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time to volunteer in your community.
• Four weeks of vacation.
• Holiday and discretionary time.
• Free ORCA pass.
• Wellness reimbursement.
• A supportive team celebrating curiosity and learning.

Pay

Salary commensurate with experience, range: $74k-$83k.

Schedule

Flexible working hours.