Designer 2: Interior Design

Company Description

Board & Vellum is an engaged group of design professionals, collaborating on single‑family, multifamily, commercial, and civic projects. Creating spaces and communities people love is why we get up in the morning. With architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture teams in‑house, we thrive on building integrated teams to design and deliver beautiful, thoughtful projects.

We believe in building stories, not just spaces. Our work is deeply rooted in creating environments that connect with the people who experience them. At Board & Vellum, you’ll find a supportive team that values collaboration, humor, and the joy of great design. We offer competitive pay, benefits, and a flexible work environment. You’ll also have opportunities for professional growth and mentorship as part of a team that celebrates curiosity and learning.

If this sounds like your next chapter, you just may be a great fit for our team. Open positions are listed below. For each, please consider the General Qualifications, as well as the role‑specific qualifications included in each open job listing. We can’t wait to meet you and see how your skills and passion will contribute to the Board & Vellum story.

General Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master in a relevant field, or commensurate working experience in the industry.
• Experience with Built Green, Passive House, or other sustainable practices earns bonus points.
• Proficiency in Revit, Adobe Creative Suite (especially InDesign and Photoshop), AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Microsoft Office, along with a general comfort with technology.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Well-honed graphic presentation and visual communication skills.
• Hand-sketching skills are a plus.
• Desire to be involved in every phase of projects.
• Proactive, engaged, and able to handle multiple projects and tasks.
• Passionate about asking questions and engaging in critique.
• Dedicated to a practice of constant learning and continuing education.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, creative environment.

We value flexible working hours, treating each other with respect, having fun, bad jokes, and speaking in a language our clients can understand. We offer competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; paid professional memberships; 401k matching; paid time to volunteer in your community; four weeks of vacation; holiday and discretionary time; free ORCA pass; wellness reimbursement; and a bunch of damn great people to work with. Board & Vellum is a dog‑friendly office, and a non‑smoking environment. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Compensation will be commensurate with professional work experience. Our opportunities do not offer visa support.

The Role: Designer 2, Interior Design

Are you passionate about creating spaces that tell a story? Do you thrive on translating complex design ideas into diligently executed realities? Board & Vellum is looking for an awesome emerging professional to join our team as a Designer 2 in our Interior Design studio, with a focus on design for single‑family homes. 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 can balance beautiful and thoughtful design work with a growing knowledge of how to be technically precise in the art of connecting people and ideas. 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.

Salary commensurate with experience, range: $74k‑$83k.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Experience: 3-5 years of professional design experience with single-family residential design experience required, and a degree in interior design.
• Technical Proficiency: Solid skills in Revit are a must. Bonus points for familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, or Enscape.
• Documentation Skills: You understand redlines and have experience in drafting them. You have a good grasp of assembling contract documents, and a strong understanding of construction documents, finishes, and material applications.
• Execution-Oriented: You are detail-oriented, highly organized, and adept at driving projects forward, meeting deadlines, and delivering high-quality results. You thrive when you diligently complete your task list.
• Design Acumen: You love making things beautiful through a creative eye for detail and a passion for storytelling. You understand how spaces evoke emotion and how every design choice contributes to a cohesive narrative.
• Research & Compliance: Comfortable with researching finish systems, materials, fixtures, and product selections to provide support for design decisions.
• FF&E Selection: Experience selecting and specifying furnishings, lighting, hardware, window coverings, materials, and finishes.
• FF&E Procurement: Experience creating FF&E proposal packages, purchase orders, and expediting to track furnishings from order through installation preferred.
• Communication Skills: You can confidently communicate ideas, collaborate with teammates, and engage with clients to bring designs to life. 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

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams to develop design concepts and documentation, ensuring alignment with client goals and project narratives.
• Pull beautiful design packages together, help curate gorgeous material palettes, and create work that you are proud of.
• Take ownership of your role producing project deliverables and engaging in project management tasks (with oversight), focusing on accuracy, quality, and meeting deadlines.
• Produce design documentation and technical drawings using Revit with precision and efficiency.
• Participate in a collaborative studio culture where your voice and ideas are welcome.

To be considered for this position, please send a résumé and cover letter (we really read them), along with samples of your work to: jobs@boardandvellum.com.

Please, no phone calls regarding career opportunities.