London, UK
Senior interior designer/interior architect
at Grigoriou Interiors
Grigoriou Interiors is seeking a senior interior designer/interior architect to join its team in London.
We are looking for purpose driven people to join our growing team at Grigoriou Interiors, to help us and our clients achieve a truly sustainable and flourishing built environment.
We believe in selecting the right people to fit the team and who have the right mindset for what we do. We are looking for senior interior designers, or Architects with interior design focus, and who wish to upskill in sustainability if they don’t already have the skills.
About us
We work with a wide range of clients, national and international, ranging from workplaces, universities, private residences, global institutions, international corporates and start-up businesses. The common theme between all our clients is they are passionate about being sustainable, wish to do good, and are willing to push beyond standard practice to achieve real change.
We provide a flexible working pattern for those who may need it or find they flourish at sunrise and sunset. We are a growing team that is based across three countries and two continents, but the new roles need to be London centric or able to commute in two to three days a week.
Our Values which we use to guide our daily work and are defined by the whole team collaboratively are: beauty, pioneering, resilience, trust, joy, creativity and knowledge. We hope these words feel inspiring and speak to you too!
You can read about our target UN SDGs here – they drive and explain all that we offer as services and their purpose.
About you
We consider being nice and empathic key attributes to developing strength and skill, as is being a team player, speaking your truth beautifully, taking initiative yet being patient, respecting all who you connect with, having integrity, and a weird passion for details that no other sector would understand.
Experience and skills of all sorts come in handy in real life situations, so please do bring your full self in your introduction. Other things we value include reliability, flexibility/tolerance, resilience, humour and joy, a healthy appetite for constant learning and healthy questioning. The whole team is invited and encouraged to contribute to marketing and PR activities, and we can create a space for your own voice to be heard in the industry and add value as part of our knowledge sharing aims.
Some further details:
- all roles in our team come with 28 days paid holiday plus bank holidays, plus your birthday is an additional day off too
- we value and welcome all who can add diversity to our current team
- please submit your cover letter, CV and portfolio/case studies where relevant via the apply for job button below clearly identifying the position you are applying for
- application deadline Monday 8am (BST) 20 June
- interviews w/c 27 of June
What we are looking for:
- knowledge and skill to manage a project from brief to practical completion and engage once in occupancy
- experience in sustainable design, whether that is environmental, wellbeing or economics/value, is highly desirable but we can also upskill you as part of the job offer if you are a great fit
- strong aesthetic creativity matched with scientific accuracy and evidence-based design
- strong understanding of human psychology and creation of user profiles to support wellbeing and value aims of projects
- nurturing and great in managing teams, collaborative with partners and directly support clients
- highly developed emotional intelligence and communication skills/awareness
- strong eye for detail and appreciation for an amazing user centred experience for all interior space users
- good knowledge of commercial interior design as a sector, where innovation is on various topics, materials and technologies
- understand whole life carbon measurement of a project and its circularity, or the ability to measure these with the use of an LCA tool (OneClick preferred)
- sustainability is inherent in all that we do and using a benchmarking scheme such as SKA rating or others is the norm and will come handy if you have experience, but we can also upskill as part of the job offer.
Sector experience: minimum ten plus years’
Salary: £35,000 to £45,000 negotiable on experience and skills
Skills and experience:
- drive and collate a strong and deliverable project brief
- concept design and development
- creative and system thinking
- sustainable interior strateg
- design for high productivity and comfort
- user psychology and creation of user profile
- strong regulatory knowledge
- development of detail design and tender/specifications packages for commercial interior
- managing suppliers and delivery partners
- working to deadlines and budgets
- writing project and strategy reports using design software including CAD, InDesign and Photoshop, and internal project management and comms applications