Design & Development Associate

SHVO Employer:
New York, NY, USLocation:
Thu, Jan 28 '21Posted on:
Full-timeType:

Rooted in commitment to design excellence, SHVO curates and partners with visionary architects and interior designers to create unique luxury residential, hospitality, and commercial developments.

Project Management

• Diligent daily filing of incoming and outgoing files and materials
• Organization and tracking of project correspondence and communications
• Scheduling and coordinating internal and external meetings
• Strategic project management aligned to secure critical path milestones
• Research
• Create and maintain Design & Development databases
• Research design trends, market standards, and finishes
• Stay abreast of competitive design landscape for product, marketing, and public relations opportunities
• Detailed benchmarking of international and national comparables (residential, hospitality, commercial, and retail assets)
• Maintain influential knowledge of real estate, design, culture, and media trends

Design

• Prepare feasibility analysis and due diligence presentations
• Prepare historical research on existing buildings
• Prepare conceptual design presentations
• Define RFP and scope of work requirements for consultant professionals
• Conceptualize, draft, and critique floorplans
• Prepare detailed floorplan reviews, annotated comments
• Assist with the review of shop drawings and approvals
• Maintain sample library, catalogue incoming project samples
• Prepare punch lists
• Strategic partnerships outreach

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of programming and functional adjacencies
• Sophisticated interior design sensibility
• Strong attention to detail
• Meticulous organization
• Impeccable project management skills
• Willingness to initiate tasks and perform duties with little supervision
• Exceptional, polished presentation
• Articulate, measured, assertive
• Sophisticated written and editorial skills
• Creative strategist with precise execution
• Strong leadership and logistical sensibility
• Strong technology capacity and interest
• Refined, elegant graphic design sensibility
• Motivated independent with collaborative initiative
• Highly organized and comfortable working on multiple parallel accelerated tracks
• Committed accountability, keen dependability
• Exquisite design acumen; international exposure
• Sophisticated appreciation of design, culture
• Entrepreneurial savvy
• Commitment to execute timely delivery

Technical

• Expert proficiency in MS Office (Excel in particular)
• Emphatic graphic design interest and expert proficiency in Adobe CS Suite (Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
• Expert proficiency in drawing software (AutoCAD, Bluebeam, SketchUp, etc.)

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (Major or Concentration in Architecture/ Interior Design);
• Masters degree in Architecture, Interior Design or Real Estate Development
• Five years minimum design experience
• Luxury residential, hospitality, sophisticated commercial and/or retail experience preferred

Please upload resume, cover email elaborating interest and selected work samples (PDF, maximum 5MB). 

No phone calls please. Local applicants only. Not a remote work position (Midtown office).