Intermediate Interior Designer

Client of AE Recruitment; Dubai; On-site; AED 167,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client, a boutique Dubai-based architecture and interior design studio, is seeking a designer ready to own defined areas of projects independently while working within a small, senior-led team.

You will contribute to hospitality, healthcare, and large-scale commercial interiors, collaborating with consultants and suppliers, and using Revit to produce precise technical drawings and client-ready presentations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years delivering hospitality, healthcare, or large-scale commercial interior projects.
• Independent on a defined scope, while collaborating within a senior-led team.
• Essential Revit experience with BIM coordination and detailed documentation.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage defined project areas from design development through technical documentation.
• Coordinate with consultants and suppliers to resolve design and technical issues in real time.
• Produce high-quality technical drawings, specifications, and client-ready presentations.
• Apply Revit for BIM coordination and ensure consistency across drawing sets.
• Balance creative ambition with budgets and client expectations in hospitality and healthcare projects.
• Contribute design development ideas reflecting minimalist, wellness-focused language.

Skills

Independent work

Collaboration

Detail-oriented

Client communication

Tools

Revit

BIM coordination

Job description

Our client is boutique Dubai-based architecture and interior design studio specialising in hospitality healthcare wellness and high-end residential projects The practice is led by two Founding Partners who specialise in healthcare hospitality and very high-end modern residential Together they combine their excellent backgrounds working at well known international practice capabilities inside a boutique hands‑on studio with 45 staff The studio s design methodology is research-based human-centric and rooted in a sensitivity to context culture and environment drawing on local vernacular to produce work that is modern timeless and of the place Their portfolio spans some of the region s most distinctive hospitality and wellness environments The studio s design philosophy is distinctive within the Dubai market rather than chasing spectacle the leadership has built a reputation around minimalism restraint and a genuine prioritisation of occupant wellbeing

The Role

This role is designed for a designer who has moved beyond junior tasks and is ready to own defined areas of a project independently without yet carrying full project leadership responsibility It offers genuine autonomy on a portfolio that includes internationally branded resorts remote wellness retreats and complex healthcare environments with direct exposure to the studio s Founding Partners and their design decision-making process

Responsibilities

• Independently manage defined project areas or packages from design development through to technical documentation
• Coordinate directly with consultants and suppliers to resolve design and technical issues in real time
• Produce high-quality technical drawing packages specifications and client-ready presentations
• Apply Revit for BIM coordination and detailed documentation ensuring accuracy and consistency across drawing sets
• Balance creative ambition with project budgets operational requirements particularly important in hospitality and healthcare typologies and client expectations
• Contribute design development ideas that reflect the studio s minimalist wellness-focused design language

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience delivering hospitality, healthcare, or large-scale commercial interior projects
• A designer who is confident working independently on a defined scope but still enjoys collaborating within a small, senior-led team
• Essential Revit experience, including BIM coordination and detailed documentation, this is a hands‑on technical role, not purely conceptual
• Strong design development instincts paired with technical understanding, someone who can sketch a good idea and then actually detail it
• A personality suited to a boutique environment: proactive, comfortable with direct access to senior leadership, and unafraid to advocate for design quality in client conversations
• Genuine enthusiasm for the studio's dual specialism in hospitality and healthcare, and an interest in wellness-oriented, materially honest design rather than trend-chasing aesthetics. Someone who thrives on variety, from a desert resort villa to a hospital chemotherapy suite and enjoys the technical and conceptual range this requires