Senior Interior Designer - Healthcare and Corporate Practice

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 is seeking a Senior Interior Designer to work primarily on international and domestic Healthcare and Corporate projects. Our designers also work on health sciences, corporate, civic, and commercial projects. This role 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 successful candidate will be a team- and practice-builder with the drive to contribute to our thriving practice, actively producing work while balancing a high-level understanding of multiple projects. The ability to both lead and integrate into a diverse team of designers is essential in our highly collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Champion design excellence across the firm, leading our practice in setting new standards for innovation, performance, social, and environmental impact.
• Lead the design process for multiple scales and complexities of projects, from very large buildings to small-scale renovations, from design concept through documentation and construction administration, working as a solo designer or directing a team.
• Demonstrate deep expertise and passion for designing healing spaces for patients and their families, as well as effective work environments for healthcare professionals.
• Excel in cross-disciplinary collaboration with architects, planners, lighting, and graphic designers, extending to collaboration with other firm-wide practice leaders in developing and pursuing common strategies.
• Foster and develop design talent, leading with enthusiasm and setting standards for professional and creative rigor.
• Describe design solutions and ideas in a clear and rigorous narrative with graphics that generate understanding, empathy, and engagement from clients and the design team.
• Distill key insights and link them together in a design framework.
• Drive design toward measurable outcomes, a successful bottom line, and client, community, and environmental goals.
• Engage with people at a deep level and represent a human and humane perspective.

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 previous 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.
• Experience with furniture selection and specification (a plus).
• Basic working knowledge of Revit, as well as proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. SketchUp, Rhino, and/or 3DS Max experience (a plus).

Pay

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $110,000 and $135,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on skills, qualifications, and experience. This role requires the individual to be based in the United States.