Interior Designer Job at Zebra in New York

Position: Interior Designer October 29, 2024

Location: New York, NY

Type: Full-Time (Hybrid, In-office 4 days/week)

Experience: 4-7 years

Reports to: Associate Director

Our Culture:

Zebra is a unique global architecture and interior design firm composed of over 250 team members with offices in London, Dubai, Phoenix, New York, Hong Kong, Mexico City and Riyadh. Our approach to practice remains one of our most powerful assets. It fuels our entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and enables us to find common ground with clients big or small. Our understanding of what connects us as people shapes the environments we create. Through cutting-edge design, deep cultural know-how and invested partnerships we create spaces formulated to evoke mood, atmosphere and feeling, delivering rich, lived experience that enable consumers to connect deeper to brands. We believe in good work-life balance, provide an environment that fosters personal and professional growth and think of ourselves as an extension of the client’s in-house design and construction team.

Description:

Zebra Projects, Inc. is offering a unique and exciting opportunity to qualified candidates who would like to join our New York office. We are hiring for an Interior Designer with 4-7 years proven experience in Corporate Retail projects. As a Zebra designer, you will leverage your technical proficiency to drive projects from concept through documents and delivery in a collaborative team environment. The candidate will be eager for professional development, accepting challenging work and focused on fundamentals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a close working relationship with the Design Managers and Project Managers.
• Knows the brand standards, designs within the desired program, and follows direction of the design manager.
• Reviews design criteria from landlords, interprets them and executes the design concepts.
• Ability to work with corporate clients and service independent clients in the ideation and conceptualization of designs from scratch.
• Work within a team that delivers prototypical designs for roll-out.
• Creates space plans compliant with applicable codes, provides sketches, mood boards and images that tell a story and convey design intent.
• Work closely with the Zebra 3D visualization team to deliver visuals to the highest standard.
• Works with the design manager to execute lighting, FF&E, décor packages and portrays them in design drawings and specs.
• Will be expected to follow the zebra best practices and the zebra QAQC process
• Familiar with standard industry practices and procedures for US project delivery
• Able to effectively communicate / coordinate with clients, contractors, and consultants
• Dexterity to prioritize and manage assignments
• Will be responsible for preparing formal submittals to Clients, Landlords and Government Agencies
• The ability to role-up one’s sleeves, dig-in and produce design packages.

Qualifications:

Professional Degree in Architecture or Interior Design Associate degree in architectural technology or design may be considered.

• 4-7 years of experience
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines is a must.
• AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and Sketch-Up in an office environment is required.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally is a plus.

Compensation Package:

• Flexible Schedule
• Highly Competitive Salary Package
• Employer Provided Benefits Package comparable to the USA offering
• Extremely Generous Paid Time-Off Provided to all employees