Chi tiết công việc Interior Designer tại District Eight
1. Interior Project Design & Delivery — approx. 35%
- Take briefs from clients and internal stakeholders and translate them into spatial concepts, layouts, material palettes and lighting intent for residential, commercial, hospitality and workplace projects.
- Develop schemes through concept, design development and technical documentation, resolving circulation, ergonomics, storage, servicing and buildability as you go.
- Prepare and present client-facing packages: mood and material direction, plans, 3D visualisation and product specification, at a standard fit for external presentation.
- Manage the design programme for your projects — deliverable dates, revision control, and the design decisions each stage requires from the client.
- Attend site through construction: setting out, mock-up and sample approvals, snagging and close-out.
2. Brand Environments & Dealer Showrooms — approx. 30%
- Design dealer, distributor and partner showroom spaces strictly in accordance with the District Eight brand guide — layout zoning, product adjacency, materials, lighting, signage and display logic.
- Produce dealer-ready layout and installation packages that a third party can execute in another market without our physical presence, and review their execution against the guide before sign-off.
- Support the design and technical documentation of our own showrooms, including the planned Milan and Hà Nội spaces, and of trade fair stands and brand installations.
- Maintain and evolve the spatial standards behind the brand guide — display modules, plinths, shelving systems, fixture families, finish and lighting specifications — so that brand environments become repeatable rather than reinvented each time.
- Act as a practical guardian of brand consistency in space: flag where a partner's proposal dilutes the brand, and propose a workable alternative rather than a refusal.
3. Technical Documentation & Production Handover — approx. 25%
- Produce complete, coordinated construction documentation: dimensioned plans, RCPs, elevations, sections, joinery and millwork details, fixing and junction details, finish schedules and door/hardware schedules.
- Own the handover into Maker Sixty Four production for bespoke and brand-environment elements — buildable detailing, achievable tolerances, material feasibility, finishing method and packing and installation considerations agreed with the factory before release.
- Coordinate with contractors, joiners, lighting suppliers and MEP trades; issue and track RFIs, revisions and as-built updates.
- Maintain a disciplined drawing standard — consistent title blocks, layering, naming, revision clouds and issue registers — so that any project can be picked up by another person without archaeology.
- Build and maintain a reusable library of details, standard fixtures and specification templates.
4. Commercial & Specification Support — approx. 10%
- Support the account and business development team with space planning, layouts and visualisation that help clients, dealers and specifiers place District Eight and Root and Branch product in real space.
- Specify our own product first where it genuinely fits the brief, and be candid where it does not — credibility with specifiers is worth more than a forced specification.
- Feed observations from projects and showroom floors back to product development: what sells, what fails on site, what dimension or finish gap keeps costing us specifications.
- Contribute to project cost awareness — flag where a design decision materially moves cost, before it is issued rather than after.
REQUIREMENTS
Experience
- Five or more years in interior design or interior architecture, working on projects that were actually built. Candidates outside this range with an exceptional portfolio will still be considered — the portfolio governs, not the year count.
- Demonstrable experience producing full construction documentation and seeing it through on site.
- Exposure to retail, showroom, hospitality or brand-environment work is a strong advantage; residential and workplace experience is welcome alongside it.
- Experience working with, or supplying to, a manufacturer or joinery workshop is highly regarded.
Technical Skills
- AutoCAD or Revit to a professional documentation standard — this is assessed, not assumed.
- SketchUp, 3ds Max or equivalent, with rendering capability (V-Ray, Corona, Enscape or similar) sufficient for client presentation.
- Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator for presentation and material boards.
- Working competence in spreadsheets for schedules, specification registers and basic quantity take-offs.
- Sound technical grounding in lighting, finishes, fixings, dimensional coordination and standard construction methods.
Attributes
- Precision. You check dimensions, you check clashes, and you issue drawings you would be willing to build from yourself.
- Restraint. You can work inside a brand guide and inside a budget without treating either as an obstacle to your authorship.
- Directness. You raise a problem when it is cheap to fix, not when it is discovered on site.
- Ownership. Projects are handed to you complete, not in fragments — you are expected to run them.
Language
- Professional working English, written and spoken — you will work with international clients, dealers and suppliers.
- Vietnamese fluency is a strong advantage for factory, contractor and supplier coordination.
NON-NEGOTIABLE FOR THIS ROLE
- A portfolio submitted with the application. Applications without a portfolio will not be reviewed. The portfolio is the primary screening instrument for this role, not the CV.
- Evidence of full construction documentation, not renders alone. At least one project in the portfolio must include the working drawing set — plans, elevations, sections, joinery/millwork details and finish schedules — that you personally produced.
- Built work. At least two completed, constructed projects with site or completion photography. Concept-only, competition and student work does not substitute.
- Named contribution. For every project shown, state explicitly what you did, what the team did, and at which stages you were involved. Ambiguity on authorship is disqualifying.
Office: 19/45 Tran Dinh Xu, Cau Ong Lanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
