Abu Dhabi, UAE
Senior interior designer
at Mustard & Linen
Mustard & Linen is hiring a senior interior designer to join its team in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Company profile
Mustard & Linen is a branding and interior design company founded in 2015. We provide a complete interior design consultancy service site supervision throughout the UAE, for hospitality, commercial, & corporate residential
About the role
We are looking for a senior range creative interior designer with experience in commercial projects to join our team on a full-time basis. The right candidate will be in charge of concept creation and design development, including delivering presentations, acquiring material finishes, selecting FF&E and managing general set of drawings.
Required skills:
- creative design thinking skills
- nine to thirteen years’ experience on residential and hospitality projects – residential plots, residential towers and four or five-star hotel
- degree in interior design or related internationally recognised degree
- strong space planning skills and attention to detail
- previous experience working with LDC (lead design consultant)
- proficiency in Adobe Suite and AutoCAD
- graphic software: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, Rhino and Revit is a plus
- possess excellent English communication and presentation skills
Skills and abilities required:
- effective communication skills: strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and ability to read and interpret information
- leadership skills: able to assume a role of authority, as necessary; sets an example for co-workers; delegates responsibility and empowers associates to make decisions and take personal accountability for decisions
- high accuracy and attention to detail: able to perform work and job function with precision and accuracy; carefully monitors processes; a strong attention to detail; organises and maintains a system of records
- strategic thinking: develops strategies to achieve organisational goals; understands organisation’s strengths and weaknesses; adapts strategy to changing conditions
- design: generates creative solutions; translates concepts and information into images; collaborates with others to modify design; applies design principles
- ownership mentality: possesses a sense of ownership in all deliverables; utilises knowledge and opportunity to continually strive for excellence within an empowering culture; collaborates and supports fellow employee owners in ongoing improvements; understands personal accountability within their role in the company
Duties and responsibilities:
- responsible for creating and leading design concepts through creative thought processes focussed on user experience, materiality and sustainable approaches, and represents the company’s standard quality of design
- demonstrate design and technical aptitude, with developing design and technical confidence
- present design solutions to the client
- contribute to and manage the preparation of mood boards, material and finish selections, and presentation material
- maintain constant professional communications with client, project teams and consultants
- have a project focussed view, across multiple projects
- demonstrate knowledge of industry-wide furniture and design suppliers, able to lead procurement and client selection discussions
- have responsibilities for managing teams with specific roles, areas or packages within projects
- work within an agreed scope and deliver complete packages of work to deadline
- develop design work in close coordination with other members of the team
- implement designs, contracts and strategic decisions reporting to the project lead
- lead the delivery of projects at different stages
- manage all aspects associated with projects including proposals, exhibits, contracts, project budget and profitability
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