Junior Designer | High-End Residential Remodels

Design Healthier Homes in Austin

Most design jobs teach you to pick beautiful things. Few teach you what comes after: the lead times, the tile counts, the vanity that has to land before the plumber does. Even fewer ask what those finishes do to the air a family breathes for the next twenty years. Here you’ll learn all of it.

We’re Enso Homes, an Austin design-build remodeler doing it differently. Non-toxic, mold-resistant, sustainable materials, and the building science to back them up. Two things we say constantly: Clarity Before Construction. Built On Systems, Not Guesswork.

We’re looking for an Junior Designer to be our Senior Interior Designer’s right hand and own every detail from selection to delivery.

The Basics

Base: $55,000 to $62,000, depending on experienceMileage reimbursement at the IRS ratePTO plus 8 paid holidaysAustin, in person, full-time. Mostly Monday to Friday, occasional SaturdaysReports to our Senior Interior DesignerRegular showroom, vendor and job site runs, so you’ll need a reliable vehicle

The Role

Our Senior Interior Designer sets the design direction. You make sure it shows up on site, on time, exactly as specified. This is a design job with procurement at its core. About half your week is sourcing, ordering and tracking. The other half is showrooms, client walkthroughs, site visits and design support.

The biggest thing you’ll help own is our Ready to Build gate. No job starts construction until:

Critical dimensions are field-verified100% of selections are madeEvery long-lead item is orderedPermit is in handScope of work is signedBudget and schedule are set

Selections and long-lead orders are yours to own.

What You’ll Own

Order lists built from selections sheets and drawings, with quantities and waste factors (our superintendent field-verifies measured items before you order)Quotes, orders, lead times and confirmed ship datesA procurement tracker for every job: item, quantity, vendor, needed-by date and statusBackorders, damages and returns, handled before they turn into schedule problemsAccurate orders and costs in JobTreadA short weekly status: what was ordered, dollars committed, what’s blocked and on whomSourcing that meets design intent, budget and our healthy-materials standards, including better pricing on the same productShowroom and vendor runs, client samples, and site visits to check conditions and installed finishesClient walkthroughs. Shadowing first, then running smaller ones yourselfFinish schedules, mood boards and presentations, plus keeping the client portal and ClickUp current

How We Measure It

Every item ordered by its needed-by date, with zero construction delays from late materialsZero construction starts with long-lead items still unorderedA procurement tracker that’s 100% current and a weekly status sent on timeOrdering errors (wrong SKU, wrong quantity) near zeroDollars saved against selections budgets

What You Bring

2+ years of paid experience in residential interior design, design-build or a kitchen and bath showroomHands-on procurement. You’ve quoted, ordered, tracked and chased vendors, not just picked finishesAn associate’s or bachelor’s degree in interior design or a related fieldSketchUp or AutoCAD skills you use regularlyYou know how a design becomes a built room: selection, order, delivery, installComfortable with quantities. You can take square footage, add waste and get a tile order rightPolished and warm with high-end homeowners, and a little nerdy about lead times, SKUs and grout jointsRelentless follow-through. You live in your trackers and hit dates without being chasedTech-forward. Google Sheets, ClickUp or similar, comfortable with AI tools, and you actually like working in a system that captures everythingAustin-based with reliable transportationA portfolio or work samples. We want to see how you think

Nice to Have

Chief Architect experienceJobTread or other construction softwareReal interest in building science: low- or zero-VOC finishes, formaldehyde-free cabinetry, mold preventionKitchen and bath remodel experience: plumbing fixtures, tile, cabinetry, lighting

Who Won’t Thrive Here

Being direct so we don’t waste each other’s time:

You want the creative side only and find tracking and ordering tedious. Half this job is the detailsYou need reminders to hit deadlinesYou want a remote role or a strict weekday-only scheduleYou prefer paper and phone calls. Our whole operation runs on software and AIYou want a finished system to maintain. We’re still building ours, and you’ll build it with us

Why This Is Different

You’ll learn high-end residential design directly from a strong Senior Designer, not from the back of a big studio. Design and construction live under one roof, so you see your selections get built and learn how the field actually works. There’s a direct path to Interior Designer as we add design capacity. And every remodel we finish is proof that healthier building works at real-world prices.

The Reality

We’re small, so everyone carries real weight. Demand is ahead of our design capacity right now, which is exactly why this role exists. Some weeks will be a lot: three jobs ordering at once, a backorder that threatens a start date, a client who changes the tile the week it ships.

You’ll get real training from our Senior Designer, then real ownership. Once something is handed to you, it’s yours, and you don’t wait to be told the next step.

We want someone who gets a little obsessed and can’t leave a broken process alone, even when it’s not technically their problem. That’s how the rest of the team works.

How Hiring Works

Apply with your resume, portfolio or work samples, a 2-minute video (no script), sharing anything you'd like about yourself15-min phone screening call60 minute full length video call interviewMeet our Senior Designer and the teamPaid one-week test project. A real selections sheet and floor plan for one bathroom. You’ll build the order list with quantities and needed-by dates, find better pricing on three items, flag what can’t be ordered yet, and draft one vendor emailOffer

The video is how we find people who actually want to work here, not the ones spraying applications across LinkedIn.

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