ZGF - Mid-level Interior Designer

Written By Erin Pellegrino

ZGF is seeking a Mid-level Interior Designer to join the team in our New York City office. We are looking for someone creative, motivated and curious with a passion for high-performance workplace, education and healthcare facilities.

As an Interior Designer, you will…

  • Produce design drawings, presentation drawings, and digital and physical models in support of projects and marketing pursuits.

  • Perform design assignments with general direction and guidance.

  • Work independently and collaboratively towards design solutions.

  • Assist in developing design and technical solutions for projects in all phases from concepts through construction administration.

  • Maintain and foster relationships with clients and consultants.

  • Demonstrate motivation in seeking out new responsibilities and challenges.

Qualifications

  • Strong verbal, written, and graphical communication skills, tasks include space planning, material selection, and furniture selection

  • Contribute to storytelling-both graphically and in content

  • Proficient in modeling and documenting projects in Revit

  • Proficient in design communication software including Rhino, Adobe CS, Microsoft Excel, and rendering software (V-Ray/3D Studio Max/Enscape)

  • Experience with commercial workplace projects is preferred. Experience in education and/or healthcare projects is also desired

  • A bachelor or higher degree in Interior Design and a minimum of 5 years of experience in the field

  • NCIDQ Certification or Architectural Licensure strongly preferred

  • LEED and/or WELL accreditation valued

Apply With

  • Cover Letter

  • Resume

  • Portfolio

Erin Pellegrino
Erin Pellegrino is currently a Masters of Architecture II Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Described by her professors as a “maker and a thinker with a strong emotive dimension to her work”, Erin Pellegrino is interested in the human qualities of architecture. Previously, she graduated from Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture in 2014 where her design excellence was recognized with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for her thesis on architecture and perfume. In spring 2013, she was nominated to represent Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture program for the AIANYS student work competition. She has also been awarded both the Seipp Prize and York Prize. Erin has worked for a range of firms and institutions, as a designer at FXFOWLE, a Studio Coach at NuVu Studio in Cambridge, as a Teaching Associate at Cornell University, and as a shop assistant at both the Cornell University and Harvard University fabrication shops. Recently she was awared the Paul M. Heffernan Travel Fellowship, to travel and realize a mountaineering shelter in the Julian Alps. She was also awarded first prize in Redesigning Detroit, a competition for the redesign of a vacant city block in Detroit, Michigan. This was a result of a collaboration with Davide Marchetti, a Roman architect and visiting critic at Cornell University’s Cornell in Rome program. In the summer of 2011, Erin traveled to South Africa as a part of a Design + Build team to construct an early education crèche in Johannesburg. Other projects include a collaboration with Jake Rudin on a renovation of a Richard Meier home in Ithaca, NY, which was awarded a Historic Ithaca Preservation Award as well as construction of a Ceremonial Japanese Tea House in Danby, NY.
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