Senior Interior Designer

About the Firm

NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm, and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities, and a resilient environment. With leading clients, diverse colleagues, and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary.

About the Role

NBBJ Charlotte is seeking a Senior Interior Designer to work on various healthcare projects. This is an opportunity to join a fully integrated, award-winning design practice where Interior Designers collaboratively work with Architects, Medical and Lab Planners, BIM Integration Leaders, and Urban Planners from programming and concept through construction. The role requires balancing active project production with a high-level understanding of multiple projects in a highly collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Champion design excellence across the firm, leading the practice in setting new standards for innovation, performance, social, and environmental impact.
• Lead the design process for projects of varying scales and complexities, from large buildings to small-scale renovations, from concept through documentation and construction administration, either as a solo designer or by directing a team.
• Demonstrate deep expertise and passion for designing healing spaces for patients, families, and effective work environments for healthcare professionals.
• Excel in cross-disciplinary collaboration with architects, planners, lighting, and graphic designers, as well as firm-wide practice leaders to develop and pursue common strategies.
• Foster and develop design talent, leading with enthusiasm and setting standards for professional and creative rigor.
• Articulate design solutions and ideas through clear narratives and graphics to generate understanding, empathy, and engagement from clients and the design team.
• Distill key insights and link them into a cohesive design framework.
• Drive design toward measurable outcomes, ensuring success in client, community, environmental goals, and the firm’s bottom line.
• Engage with people at a deep level, representing a human and humane perspective in design.

Requirements

• Interior Design or Architecture degree from an accredited program (Master’s or Bachelor’s).
• Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in Interior Design and/or Interior Architecture.
• Significant experience working on complex healthcare projects in all phases of design.
• Architectural or interior design professional licensure (a plus).
• LEED accreditation or ability to obtain within 18 months of hire.
• Strong marketing, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Experience leading teams and directing design on multiple projects concurrently.
• Experience in research, selection, and specification of materials and finishes.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Basic working knowledge of Revit, as well as proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. SketchUp, Rhino, and/or 3DS Max (a plus).
• Furniture selection and specification experience (a plus).

This role requires the individual to be based in the United States.