The Role:
— Lead 2–3 residential projects end-to-end with principal oversight at creative milestones
— Manage project schedules, budgets, and weekly client communication
— Develop design concepts, drawings, renderings, and presentation materials
— Produce full drawing and documentation packages, including millwork and custom details
— Lead sourcing across furniture, lighting, materials, and one-of-a-kind pieces
— Coordinate with contractors, trades, and vendors to ensure design intent is executed
— Lead install days and final styling on assigned projects
— 5+ years of high-end residential interior design experience, including full-service projects from concept through installation
— Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit, and SketchUp
— Strong understanding of millwork design, construction methods, and trade coordination
— Demonstrated ability to lead a project
— Excellent client communication; able to hold a creative line with care
— Highly organized, proactive, with exceptional follow-through
— A sensibility that resonates with our work: layered, restrained, European-inspired, romanticized.
— Local to the Central Valley (or California) preferred, open to relocation or hybrid for the right candidate
HLC Studio is a residential interior design firm based in California, designing timeless, collected homes with a European sensibility. Our work is full-service. We are hiring a Lead Designer to lead projects end-to-end alongside our principal designer. This is a senior creative and project leadership role. The right person can carry a project from initial concept through installation with confidence, partnering with the principal at creative milestones and owning the day-to-day execution in between.
