Profile
JSD is seeking a skilled Senior Interior Designer with a passion for interior design and a minimum of seven-plus years of professional experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will take on a senior role, working alongside the President of the company to assist in the delivery of all phases of our projects from conceptual ideas through to implementation. The chosen candidate will be self-motivated, passionate, a great communicator and have a desire to grow with the company as a key member of our team. Applicants should also demonstrate a strong balance between design sensitivity and technical knowledge, together with the project organization skills that are necessary to operate in a fast-paced environment.
Key Qualifications
- 6+ years experience working at a high end interior design firm in NEW YORK
- Professional experience managing a team, vendor coordination, project schedules, etc.
- Highly skilled in AutoCAD, studio designer, and Adobe Suite (InDesign and Photoshop)
- Strong and thorough interior architectural drawing skills
- A great eye with a strong understanding of high-end design
- Thorough understanding of luxury vendors and furniture producers
- Strong graphic presentation skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Well organized and able implement systems within the office to ensure effective management of projects
- Honest; with high personal values and ethics
- Comfortable stepping up and taking action when needs arise; decision-maker
- Has demonstrated a high level of professional integrity by taking pride, ownership and responsibility for own work as well as team member’s work. Has set high expectations, for self and team and pushes to achieve them.
- Maintains a positive, open ‘can do attitude’ to staff, team and client, acting in a friendly and helpful manner while utilizing “great customer service skills"
Roles and responsibilities
- Consistently bring fresh ideas to the team that are project appropriate
- Maintain a daily task list for assigned projects discussing time allotments, schedules, and delegations
- Assist project teams to ensure delays are adequately documented.
- Direct and lead intermediate designer under your purview
- Create preliminary floor plans, furniture plans, mood boards and budgets for new potential clients
- Using InDesign to create client presentations
- Attend and lead client presentations
- Develop floor plans and furniture plans in CAD
- Assemble construction documentation set (demo plans, floor plans, RCPs, lighting plans, furniture plans, elevations, and details)
- Select plumbing, appliances, equipment, lighting and finish specifications. Input all information in schedule and specification packages
- Attend and contribute to weekly coordination calls with contractors, architects, and installers
- Source FF&E: furniture, window treatments, fabrics, wall treatments, lighting, carpeting, art accessories
- Create custom furniture drawings for vendors, visit workrooms to check in on custom pieces, and review shop drawings.
- Job site management throughout the construction process including electrical coordination, finish materials, and site surveys
- Demonstrate a highly organized and systematic approach to producing a project.
- Understand the necessity to keep team and project tasks lists updated and complete.
- Demonstrate a high degree of time management skill and constantly seek to streamline processes and procedures to increase quality and efficiency.
About Us
Jessica Schuster Design celebrates artistry in all its many forms. Our work strives to maintain a harmonious balance between the unusual and the familiar while creating original and composed spaces for our clients. Each design project is a unique canvas, and opportunity for our team to forge beautiful spaces that not only please the senses but challenge the status quo. Our team offers a wealth of experience in design, as well as interior decorating, project management, and procurement. Jessica Schuster Design is based in Soho, New York and has recently completed projects in London, New York City, The Hamptons, Palm Beach, Boston, and Miami. Jessica has been featured in Architectural Digest, Luxe Magazine, House & Garden, Vogue Living, My Domaine, Harper’s Bazaar, The Coveteur, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Cottages and Gardens Magazine. In addition, her firm has won numerous awards in the hospitality sector for their Innovative work.
If you are a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual with a passion for creating exceptional interior spaces, we encourage you to apply. Please submit your resume and portfolio to olivia@jessicaschuster.com with the subject line: “JSD Senior Designer Application”
