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Junior Interior Designer
Hospitality & Residential
The Details:
- Day Rate: TBC depending on experience
- Contract: Full-time, freelance / contract -, 3 months with a view to an extension to 6 months and permanent employment
- Location: Remote first
- Working pattern: Full-time, Monday to Friday 9-5:30pm
- Start date: As soon as possible
- Equipment: You’ll need your own laptop and access to our stable internet connection
- Reports to: Creative Director
About Studio Mercy
Studio Mercy is a boutique interior design and styling studio driven by the belief that great design tells stories, evokes emotion, and helps people live better. We work across interior design, styling, curation, and creative direction, delivering distinctive, playful yet focused creative work on a global portfolio of projects — from high-end residential to hospitality and wellness. Our culture is rooted in curiosity, individuality, and craftsmanship, with a strong commitment to collaboration, both within the team and with our clients.
The Role
This is a dual role, and a rare one, part junior designer, part right hand to the Creative Director. It suits someone early in their design career who wants genuine creative responsibility from day one, alongside the organisational backbone that makes a small studio run properly.
You'll work directly across live projects, sourcing, presentations, schedules and budgets, while also supporting the Creative Director's diary, communications and day-to-day organisation so nothing falls through the cracks for our clients.
This is a growth role. For the right person, it's a genuine path toward a Design Lead position as the studio scales.
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Key Responsibilities
Design & Project Delivery
- Source creative and product options aligned to direction set by the Creative Director
- Build and maintain project decks for presentations and client meetings
- Populate and manage project schedules and programmes
- Produce drawing packs to support design development and delivery
- Take ownership of small projects end-to-end, from concept through to delivery
- Track and manage budgets on projects you're running
- Ensure all creative output meets studio standard before it goes to a client
Executive & Diary Support
- Manage the Creative Director's diary, proactively booking and coordinating calls and meetings
- Ensure client deliverables go out on time, every time, chasing internally where needed
- Act as a first point of organisation for the Creative Director, keeping priorities visible and on track
Studio Operations Admin
- Book meetings into team diaries
- Arrange team travel
- File and organise documents received from clients into the correct project folders
- General studio administration as needed
What we’re looking for
- A genuine passion for interior design and an eye for quality
- High standards and real attention to detail — this role isn't a fit for loose or careless work
- A strong work ethic, with accountability for your own output
- Confidence to take ownership of small projects and run with them
- Comfortable working with budgets and schedules, not just creative output
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Ability to work from creative direction rather than needing everything spelled out
- Proactive — someone who spots what needs doing rather than waiting to be asked
- Wants genuine autonomy — comfortable owning and managing their own workload without close oversight
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Growth Path
This role is built for someone who wants to grow. As you prove yourself across design delivery and studio organisation, there's a clear route toward taking on more project responsibility and, over time, a Design Lead position within the studio.
Software
Essential:
- AutoCAD or other
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AI tools: Claude or similar
Preferred:
- SketchUp
- Vectorworks
- ClickUp or similar project management platforms
Additional Skills
- Keen interest in emerging creative technologies and AI-assisted workflows
- Comfortable using modern tools to support design development, research, organisation and studio efficiency
- Strong visual judgement and taste - with the ability to use AI tools critically and creatively rather than generically
How to Apply:
Send your CV and portfolio to alex@studio-mercy.com with the subject line: Interior Designer Application.
- Portfolio format: PDF preferred, under 20mb. Shared links also accepted.
- Process: Initial conversation, Interview & brief design task, offer.
- Response time: We will reply to applications within one week.
- Questions: Reach out to the same address before applying; we're happy to talk.
We welcome applicants from outside the UK and are happy to discuss working arrangements across time zones.
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