Interior Design Associate

Key Responsibilities

• Own the execution of design deliverables across all project phases, ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with Greens’ standards and client expectations.
• Collaborate closely with the Vice President of Interior Design to uphold creative direction, design integrity, and technical excellence throughout the process.
• Maintain accurate, organized project documentation, including budgets, schedules, and drawing sets, ensuring clarity across internal teams and external consultants keeping the project up to date in real time.
• Foster consistency in brand and Greens standards application across all deliverables.
• Serve as a key point of accountability for ensuring all project materials are developed, reviewed, and submitted on time and to the highest standard before VP review.
• Communicate effectively in meetings, providing timely updates on progress, documenting decisions, and ensuring clear follow-through on next steps.
• Support a collaborative, solution-oriented studio culture by promoting design quality, accountability, and professionalism across the team.

Primary Functions

• Lead day-to-day development of multiple design projects in tandem, guiding everything from concept and planning through documentation, procurement, installation, and punch-list review. Including but not limited to:
• Programmatic, conceptual, and schematic layout & planning, design presentations, development and submittals, consultant collaboration, FF&E specifications, finish selections and schedules, construction documentation, construction administration, procurement, shop drawings, CFAs, final installation, and site/punch list reviews.
• Prepare and supervise detailed construction documents that ensure design continuity, accurate transitions, and code compliance are all streamlined prior to redline review.
• Generate and refine presentation materials, specifications, schedules, and shop drawing reviews with speed and precision.
• Deliver professional, well-structured presentations that clearly communicate design intent and rationale both visually and verbally.
• Interpret and implement redlines and feedback on all design materials with accuracy and initiative.
• Facilitate internal and consultant meetings, proactively identifying and addressing coordination or technical issues.
• Conduct site visits, field reviews, and on-site meetings to support construction administration and ensure fidelity to the design vision.
• Stay informed and up to date on brand standards, applying them appropriately across all relevant aspects of project execution.
• Manage and maintain organized digital files, drawing sets, and design assets across project timelines.

The ideal candidate will:

• A proactive communicator who updates the VPID daily on project progress and flags potential issues early.
• Disciplined, strong work ethic, reliable, self-motivated, and goal-oriented with a passion for design.
• Tech-savvy, expert use of AutoCAD software to create high-quality design drawings for building construction and project creation while including building codes and specifications for design.
• Motivated to succeed and always seeking opportunities for improvement of self and team in improving knowledge, expertise, and industry awareness.
• Manages conflict effectively and encourages a healthy team environment.
• Creative and strategic problem solver and is dependable to sets goals for self and team pushing projects through to completion.
• Works well in a collaborative team environment and open to alternative ideas and constructive criticism/critique.
• Responsible and accountable for own actions.
• High level of mastery in the use of AutoCad, Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch-up, Bluebeam, Microsoft Word and Excel.

What are we looking for?

• Excellent customer service skills and comfortable in interfacing with clients, consultants, vendors, and internal staff.
• Detail oriented, highly organized, and strong project management skills with the ability to meet overlapping deadlines in fast-paced working environment without substituting quality or accuracy.
• Comfortable stepping up and taking action when needs arise; decision-maker.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 6 years of hospitality design experience and a degree or certification from an accredited interior design program.