Interior Designer | Dublin
Ruumi Studio is a new architecture and interior design practice launching in 2026. We're a spin-out from an international real estate firm – small by choice (six people), ambitious by nature, and building something different. We're not starting from zero: we've got a solid order book and live projects from day one.
We're looking for a middleweight interior designer to join our Dublin team.
The honest bit first:
We're a startup. There is no employee handbook. The "brand guidelines" are currently a Notion page with good intentions. You will occasionally be asked to do things outside your job description, because job descriptions are a fiction we haven't had time to write yet.
If that sounds exhausting, this isn't the role for you. If it sounds like freedom, keep reading.
What we're actually offering:
The chance to shape a practice from the ground up. Real responsibility on live projects, not years of sourcing fabric samples for someone else's vision. A seat at the table when decisions get made. A 9-day fortnight from day one, because we believe tired people do worse work. And colleagues who are genuinely good to be around.
We work across commercial workplace, retrofit, and industrial sectors. We've delivered 250,000 sq ft of projects, picked up ten award nominations, and we're just getting started.
What we need from you:
∙ A relevant degree in interior design or architecture
∙ Around 3-5 years of experience – confident running workstages, comfortable with some autonomy, not yet expected to know everything
∙ Properly good at Revit. Not "familiar with" – fluent.
∙ A sensible head. The kind of person who spots problems before they become expensive.
∙ Someone who can hold both ends. We need designers who can concept beautifully and deliver technically – who care about a skirting detail as much as a mood board. If you think "creative" and "technical" are opposing personality types, we're not the right fit.
∙ Curious and coachable. We want someone hungry to develop their own design voice, not someone who's already decided they know everything.
Even better if you:
∙ Actually enjoy learning. Not "committed to CPD" – genuinely thirsty for knowledge. The kind of person who disappears down a rabbit hole on a Friday afternoon and emerges knowing how something works.
∙ Have been experimenting with AI tools in your design or documentation workflow. We're interested in people who are curious about where this is all heading, not people waiting to be told.
∙ Are scrappy. Startups need people who find solutions, not people who find reasons why something can't be done.
∙ Are good company. We're building a team we actually want to spend time with.
What we're not interested in:
∙ People who need to be told what to do
∙ People who think "that's not my job" is a valid sentence
∙ CVs that read like AI wrote them (we'll know)
The practical stuff:
Dublin-based, hybrid working. Minimum three days in the office once we've established a permanent space. You'll report directly to one of the founders.
To apply:
Send your CV, a portfolio (PDF, under 10MB, we're begging you), and a few sentences on why this sounds like your kind of chaos to