So, we heard that you want to be an Interior Designer

Hazel painting wall swatches during a project Site Kickoff

Role Overview

BuildBuilt’s design associates (DAs) are experimental, creative and enthusiastic. Collaboratively with BuildBuilt’s Project Manager, They will take their client’s hand and lead them through the project, from start to finish.

Interior Designers should have a broad understanding of color, materials and a confident understanding of space. At the same time, a keen eye for details.

Through relational design, Interior Designers create spaces that are sensible and aesthetically pleasing for their clients.

Interior Designers, through their own unique abilities, and BB’s processes, collaborate with homeowners/business owners to design their dream spaces. Interior Designers form relationships with homeowners/business owners to understand their design brief thoroughly, and embed them the design. They must do this with a respectful understanding of the project constraints as well- authority, timeline, quality and budget.

Communicating ideas with clarity is crucial for the Interior Designers to elevate the client’s design and planning experience.

 

Designer Joen and PM Xiwen (both right) during a Co-Create Workshop

Objectives & Responsibilities

  • Minimum 3 years of working experience in the industry

  • Singapore citizen or PR

  • Able to connect well with clients, teammates, and suppliers with confidence

  • Able to communicate design, and to pitch a project impressively, within a project’s constraints

  • Able to articulate to project managers on key design details and intent

  • Able to model 3D visuals with SketchUp, Enscape and draft with AutoCAD

  • Able to problem solve with practical solution / design during construction phase

  • Able to learn new design applications

 

Hui Ling and her green-hued palette

Traits & Values

  • A heart for both people and design

  • Aesthetic Intelligence (AQ)

  • Able to communicate ideas clearly and convincingly

  • Able to work independently with autonomy, self-organise, and multi-task

  • Treat each enquiry with care, persistence and empathy

  • Understand and manage client’s design and functional expectations

  • Adventurous to push design limits, explore materials and acquire new market products

  • Confident and engaging, representative of the company’s first impression