Senior Interior Designer

Cape Town or Johannesburg, South Africa Posted on 08/15/2025

Working directly with the Design & Build team both locally & internationally, alongside the Head of Design, to bring the companies vision and spaces to life. From sourcing, presentations & technical drawings, as a Senior Designer your role would be 'a little bit of everything'.

KOFISI should be more than a place to work. It requires style & excitement to spark creativity and an energy for fast paced deliverables.

The Senior Designer has a responsibility to manage a team to undertake design from concept to completion. They are expected to undertake the below tasks but not limited to, while working closely with the rest of the Design & Build Team to guard the brand look & feel in the center builds.

• Understand project requirements & briefing.
• Research and select project materials and products in a decisive and timely manner.
• Assistance in space planning & test fit proposals for Client spaces and for KOFISI spaces.
• Ability to understand and formulate design concepts and present for discussions.
• Put together a visual presentation document to present effectively to clients.
• Assist with full drawing packs for construction - Revit.
• Technical drawings including joinery - Revit.
• MEP co ordination and being able to communicate with specialists.
• Use of excel to understand and interpret briefs.
• Create accurate schedules for purchasing.
• Show organized skills by taking meeting minutes as needed.
• Work with 3D artists to produce renders if needed.
• Produce working visuals and renders to assist in the Design progress.
• Understand ergonomics and how people use and interact with spaces.
• Bring new ideas into the brand, by looking at the international and industry standards.
• Set and achieve deliverable deadlines and give regular updates to the Head Of Design on progress.
• Meet and communicate with South African suppliers.
• Clear communication with team leaders and members, and be presentable to the team and the company.
• Work with other departments, to ensure communication across teams is clear, to formulate accurate briefs.
• Planning of botany and styling.
• Able and willing to travel to various project locations.
• Weekly catch up meetings with your project teams.
• Check quality and assist with the workflows of your project teams.
• Communicate and update clients on project progress.
• Management of a team.

• Proficient in Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Ability to read & interpret architectural, engineering and mechanical drawings.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Problem solving and creative solution skills.
• Works well under pressure and can multi-task.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work well under minimal supervision but is also a team player.
• Strong time management.
• Adaptable to change.
• Approachable, reliable and assertive.
• Physically capable of lifting and moving objects as necessary.

• Min 5 years of experience in the Interior Design industry (preferably hospitality or commercial design).
• Experience with space planning for commercial office space.
• Strong interest in conceptual design, ideation of new spaces, and user-experience.
• Look and feel presentations.
• Look & feel presentations, space planning, tender drawings, construction drawings, joinery drawings, client liaison, RFI's and schedules, sourcing & styling.