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** Position Description**
**Junior Designer - retail studio** Location **Seattle, WA** **Position: Junior Designer - Retail experience a plus** **Required: Strong skills in Sketchup, Revit, AutoCad, Adobe Suite** **IA Interior Architects** translates client goals, brand and culture into powerful environments built around people, processes, technologies and business drivers. Our clients in diverse markets worldwide require high-performance, visually compelling and sustainable environments to move their enterprise forward, support their culture, engage their clients and staff, integrate technology and drive efficiencies. As architects, designers, workplace strategists and environmental specialists in the largest global architecture firm concentrating exclusively on interiors, we help clients articulate and align their business strategies and core values with the dynamic use of space.
Our team members are collaborative, creative, professional, expert and entrepreneurial. Joining our team requires skill, daring, leadership, teaming, humor and a love of retail. We are presently searching for a **Junior Designer** for the Retail Studio. The Junior Designer, while working under the direct supervision of a Project Manager, performs a broad variety of drafting and/or design tasks.
**In addition:**
Work with design team to develop design ideas
May assist senior designers in selecting fixtures and finishes
Under supervision, develops preliminary retail space plans
Assist and learn detailing
Assist and learn the production of furniture & finish packages, along with cost estimating
Assists senior staff with verification of site details to support design
Assists in field surveying of client retail spaces
Corrects drawings red lined by others
Supports the Retail team in collecting information for client assessment; may attend interviews, provide documentation support; developing skills while working with Revit
**Qualifications:**
Graduate of architecture or design school: equivalent experience may be substituted
1+ year experience or equivalent educational experience: strongly prefer experience working in retail interior design projects
**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:**
Working knowledge of the application of color, materials and aesthetic form
Familiarity with retail space planning methodology
Familiarity with furnishings and equipment
Basic sketching and rendering skills
Basic interior architecture detailing skills
Working knowledge of CDs and procedures
Commitment to support projects through peaks and valleys
Intermediate MS Office Suite skills
Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills
Intermediate verbal and written communication skills
**Please submit a portfolio or work examples with your application**
**Working Conditions:**
For the majority of the time the Junior Designer will be sitting in a studio with limited physical requirements. This may require individuals to bend, stretch, twist and reach. On occasion individuals will be required to visit a client site to perform site verifications and field surveys. The position is not subject to occupational and safety risks.
**Interior Architects, Inc. (IA) provides equal opportunity in all aspects of recruitment and employment** to all persons without regard to their race, color, creed, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, nationality, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, uniformed service member and to promote the full realization of equal employment opportunities.
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