Job Overview
Are you passionate about creating spaces that tell a story? Do you thrive on leading complex design ideas from first sketch through diligent execution? Board & Vellum is looking for an experienced designer to join our Interior Design studio. You will primarily focus on residential interiors for single‑family clients, and you will bring depth, judgment, and mentorship to a team working across custom residential, multifamily, commercial, and civic projects. We’re a dynamic architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture studio located in Seattle, Washington, where collaboration, creativity, and storytelling shape everything we do. We’re looking for someone who pairs beautiful, thoughtful design work with the technical precision and client fluency that only comes with experience. As a firm practicing across diverse sectors, our studio harnesses a systematic approach and applies it not only to our multifamily and commercial work, but to our custom residential work as well.
This job is in-person, full-time, in our new office in Seattle's iconic Smith Tower.
What You'll Bring to the Team
- Experience: 8+ years of professional design experience with a strong single-family residential portfolio, and a degree in interior design.
- Technical Proficiency: Solid skills in Revit and Adobe Creative Suite are a must. Bonus points for Enscape.
- Documentation Skills: You author and review redlines with confidence. You lead the assembly of contract documents and bring a deep command of construction documents, finishes, and material applications.
- Project Leadership: You independently drive projects forward, manage scope and schedule, anticipate issues before they surface, and deliver high-quality results without needing a task list handed to you.
- Design Acumen: You love making things beautiful through a creative eye for detail and a passion for storytelling. You set the design direction on your projects and can articulate why every choice serves the larger narrative.
- Research & Compliance: Fluent in finish systems, materials, fixtures, and product selections, and able to defend design decisions with the research behind them. Working knowledge of applicable codes and accessibility standards.
- FF&E Selection: Deep experience selecting and specifying furnishings, lighting, hardware, window coverings, materials, and finishes across project types and budgets.
- FF&E Procurement: Experience owning FF&E proposal packages, purchase orders, vendor relationships, and expediting from order through installation.
- Consultant & Vendor Coordination: Comfortable directing consultants, coordinating with contractors and fabricators, and holding the line on quality through construction administration.
- Mentorship: You enjoy developing less experienced designers, giving generous feedback, and raising the bar for the whole studio.
- Communication Skills: You lead client conversations with confidence, translate design intent into plain language, and navigate difficult moments with grace. You do what you say you’re going to do.
- Excitement for a Variety of Project Types: You are excited to work on a variety of project types including custom residential, low and mid-rise multifamily residential and mixed-use, commercial, and civic projects.
- Multitasking: You will work on a number of projects of varying scales at one time, so being able to handle the mix and stay organized is essential.
What You'll Do
- Lead multi-disciplinary project teams to develop design concepts and documentation, ensuring alignment with client goals and project narratives.
- Own the design vision on your projects, curating gorgeous material palettes and pulling together packages the whole studio is proud of.
- Manage project deliverables, budgets, and schedules, serving as a primary point of contact for clients and consultants.
- Produce and oversee design documentation and technical drawings in Revit with precision and efficiency.
- Mentor emerging designers through review, critique, and day-to-day collaboration.
- Contribute to a collaborative studio culture where your voice and ideas shape how we work.
