Designer

IA Interior Architects; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IA Interior Architects seeks a Designer for our New York studio. The Designer, reporting to a Senior Designer or Project Manager, provides design support from concept through design development and contract documents, with emphasis on presentation, space planning, and coordination with engineers and landscape teams.

Ideal candidates bring 6+ years in workplace design with expertise in interiors, furniture packages, and architectural detailing, and demonstrate strong leadership, collaboration,

Qualifications

• Graduate of architecture or design school; equivalent experience may be substituted.
• 6+ years’ experience in workplace design, focusing on building repositioning and adaptive reuse projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop design ideas and create presentation and construction drawings.
• Draft technical drawings and review engineering and landscape drawings for design solution compliance.
• Ensure integration into overall design and develop preliminary concept plans for larger projects.
• Mentor Junior/Intermediate Designers and oversee space plans for complex issues.
• Develop and deliver design and furniture packages for interior and exterior projects and manage design budgets.

Skills

Advanced Revit skills

Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills

Sketching & rendering

Space planning

Project administration

Presentation skills

Mentoring junior staff

Education

Architecture or design school graduate

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Interior Architects translates client goals, brand and culture into powerful environments built around people, processes, technologies and business drivers. Our clients in diverse markets worldwide require high-performance, visually compelling and sustainable environments to move their enterprise forward, support their culture, engage their staff, integrate technology and drive efficiencies. As architects, designers, workplace strategists and environmental specialists in the largest global architecture firm concentrating exclusively on interiors, we help clients articulate and align their business strategies and core values with the dynamic use of space.

Our team members are collaborative, creative, professional, expert and entrepreneurial. Joining our team requires skill, daring, leadership, teaming, humor and a love of Design. We are presently searching for a Designer for our NY studio. The Designer, working under general supervision of a Senior Designer or Project Manager, provides design support primarily in project administration, presentations, concept design through design development, and contract documents.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Works with team to develop design ideas and create both presentation and construction drawings
• Drafts technical drawings
• Provides review of engineering and landscape drawings to ensure they comply with design solution.
• Ensures integration into overall design
• Preliminary concept plans for larger projects
• May develop and finalize conceptual design for smaller projects
• Oversees Intermediate Designer to review space plans and tackles more complicated issues
• Provides detail for interior and architectural design projects
• Develops and delivers overall design and furniture packages for both interior and exterior
• Assists in developing packages for larger projects
• Obtains cost estimates and produces final cost estimates
• Manages design budget for assigned projects
• May mentor the work of Junior and Intermediate Designers

Qualifications:

• Graduate of architecture or design school: equivalent experience may be substituted
• 6+ years’ experience in workplace design, focusing on building repositioning and adaptive re-use projects as well as corporate interior

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Advance presentation skills
• Advanced knowledge of space planning
• Extensive knowledge of furnishings and finishes
• Extensive with the concepts of furniture layout
• Advanced sketching and rendering skills
• Advanced architecture detailing skills
• Extensive knowledge of CDs and procedures
• Extensive knowledge of building systems, codes and ADA requirements
• Working knowledge of path of travel requirements
• Working knowledge of contract administration
• Intermediate MS Office Suite skills
• Advanced Revit skills
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills

Salary Ranger: 75,000 - 90,000, based on educational background, education and industry experience.

Interior Architects, Inc. (IA) provides equal opportunity in all aspects of recruitment and employment to all persons without regard to their race, color, creed, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, nationality, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, uniformed service member and to promote the full realization of equal employment opportunities.