Senior Interior Designer

NBBJ Design; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NBBJ Charlotte is seeking a Senior Interior Designer to lead healthcare projects, mentor junior staff, and drive design excellence from programming through construction.

You will balance hands-on design with leadership, guiding teams across disciplines to deliver integrated, healing spaces and compelling narratives. The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and design excellence across a thriving practice.

Qualifications

• Requires Interior Design or Architecture degree (Master's or Bachelor's).
• Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in Interior Design and/or Interior Architecture.
• Significant experience on complex healthcare projects across all design phases.
• Architectural or interior design licensure is a plus.
• LEED accreditation or within 18 months of hire.
• Strong marketing, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Experience leading teams and directing design on multiple projects concurrently.
• Experience in materials and finishes selection and specification.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Be a champion of design excellence across the firm and lead our practice in setting new standards for innovation, performance, social and environmental impact.
• Lead design processes for projects from concept through CA, including solo work or directing a team to deliver integrated design narratives.
• Demonstrate expertise in designing healing spaces for patients and their families and for healthcare professionals.
• Collaborate across disciplines with architects, planners, lighting and graphic designers and other practice leaders.
• Develop and mentor junior interior design talent and contribute to overall practice growth.
• Describe design solutions clearly with graphics that communicate to clients and teams.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Client collaboration

BIM coordination

Project management

Education

Interior Design degree

Architecture degree

Tools

Revit

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

SketchUp

Rhino

3DS Max

Job description

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. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today!

The Role At a Glance

NBBJ Charlotte is seeking a Senior Interior Designer to work on various healthcare projects. The individual would be responsible for pursuing, developing, managing, and executing the design of 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.

In addition to providing design leadership on projects, this individual will mentor and help grow junior interior design talent. The successful candidate is a team- and practice-builder with drive to contribute to our thriving practice. The role requires the successful candidate to be actively producing the work while balancing an overall, high-level understanding of multiple projects. The skill and ability to both lead and integrate into a diverse team of designers would serve the candidate well in our highly collaborative environment.

In Your New Role, You Will

• Be a champion of design excellence across the firm, leading our practice in setting new standards for innovation, performance, social and environmental impact
• Exhibit significant experience in leading design process for multiple scales and complexities of projects, from very large buildings to small scale renovations, from design concept through documentation and CA; working as solo designer or directing a team to develop an integrated and comprehensive design narrative.
• Demonstrate a deep expertise and passion for designing healing spaces for patients and their families and effective work environments for healthcare professionals.
• Excel in cross-disciplinary collaboration with architects, planners, lighting and graphic designers. This extends 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 the client and design team.
• Distill key insights and linking them together in a design framework.
• Drive design toward measurable outcomes, a successful bottom line, and client, community, and environmental goals.
• Natural skill to engage with people at a deep level and are passionate about representing a human and humane perspective.

What You Will Need To Succeed

• 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 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 Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Sketchup, Rhino and/or 3DS Max experience a plus

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

NBBJ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F Disabled and Vet EEO/AA Employer.