Senior Interior Designer

greater london, england, United Kingdom

Run For The Hills are on the hunt for Senior Interior Designers to join our amazing interior design team.

We have lots of cool projects on the go and have an opening for a highly experienced senior-level F&B hospitality and boutique residential designer, who will work on exciting UK and international bar and restaurant design projects and super stylish boutique residential interior design projects here in the UK.

In terms of your track record, hospitality and/or residential design experience is essential. Along with fantastic design skills, and experience leading and running interior design projects, driving the detailed concept and CAD design, client communication and project implementation and directing junior team members. On a personality front, we love friendly, positive, glass half-full, can-do people. If this sounds like you, email your portfolio to [email protected] with the title ‘Senior Interior Designer’.

Key Duties:

Senior Designer and Creative Team lead on F&B and resi interior design projects from concept to completion

Setting up, planning and scheduling projects with our Interior Project Manager and Studio Manager

Working with the Creative Director and other Senior & mid-level designers to set the interiors strategy, then developing the design in full design detail, ensuring the proposed design meets the Client brief and is brought to life brilliantly, accurately for contractors and within budget

Hands on creation of detailed Concept Designs and detailed technical design Tender packs, specifications and documentation for sharing with Clients & Contractors

Detailed CAD design and bespoke detailing (Vectorworks and willingness to transition from AutoCAD)

Setting design to-dos and deadlines in Basecamp for the team

Also overseeing and editing others’ CAD and 3D sketch modelling work

Doing hands-on concept and CAD design and hand-sketching, art directing CGIs, sourcing, procurement and putting together schemes and all other creative assets and project documentation relating to projects

Briefing, delegating, overseeing and directing and editing others’ design work, sourcing and procurement activity

Driving site and studio meetings with Clients, Suppliers and Contractors alongside our Interior Project Manager

Managing deadlines and budgets from start to finish alongside our Interior Project Manager and Studio Manage

Tracking profitability on projects (analysis on Tick) alongside the Project Manager and Studio Manager

Transferring those learnings into fee proposals & negotiations

Training other team members in creativity, project leadership and client handling

Skills & experience needed:

Essential: A really exciting and extensive hospitality and residential and interior design portfolio

Essential: Excellent technical CAD design skills, compiling Stage 4 Tender packs

Essential: Experience in a client-facing capacity at a senior level on interiors projects

Minimum of 5 year’s experience

Job-leading experience (acting as day to day Client and Project Co-ordination contact)

Experience with project set up, procedures, contracts, programme and budgets

Strong construction, fabrication and ’on site’ knowledge in residential and hospitality

Talent for presenting to Clients and getting them really inspired

Inventive bespoke joinery, FF&E and custom lighting product/CAD design

Strong commercial environment experience, specifying compliant finishes

A knack for negotiating with suppliers on prices and terms for Clients

Working with fabricators/specialists designing/procuring bespoke products & finishes

Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, working well under pressure

Proficiency in Vectorworks/AutoCAD ( essential) , InDesign, Photoshop

Sketch Up/3D ( a bonus )

Languages: Fluent English

Our studio:

We work from a stylish studio space in Queen's Park, West London and are a happy, friendly place to work - a great bunch of people who love what they do. We are a specialist interiors and branding studio, fashioning exciting and unique residential, hotel, F&B, bar, restaurant and work-club-lounge spaces. We get involved in every aspect of designing the spaces we create; concepting and planning the whole experience, from the exterior shopfront to wall to wall design of the interiors, including creation of original art and lots of bespoke joinery and product design. We have a dedicated graphic design team, who often devise the overall creative branding, visual identity, website, signage, in-venue graphics, art and murals for our projects, creating a seamless concept across brand and interiors.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a truly multi-disciplinary design team.

How to Apply:

If this sounds perfect for you and you have the great F&B and residential design skills we’re looking for, then please send your CV and portfolio (as a PDF), making sure to include your best case studies, with good examples of conceptual development and examples of CAD drawing pack detailing as well as finished and photographed projects. Please also send a short covering email telling us about yourself, why you’d like to work for us and why you’re a good fit for the role. Once you’ve pulled that together, please submit your application.

Send CVs and pdf portfolio to [email protected] with the title ‘Senior Interior Designer’.

IMPORTANT

**Applicants should email a pdf portfolio or link to your creative and technical design work online. Please no QR-code portfolios or WeTransfer links.

Hearing back from us:

Applicants who are successful, and make it through to interview stage, will be notified by email. If you haven’t heard back within two weeks of your application, please assume that you haven’t been successful.

Industry

Design

Residential

Hospitality

Hotels

Work/club space

Employment Type

Hybrid Full-time (4 days in studio, maximum 1 day remote)

Salary level:

£45-55k dependent on experience.