Position Overview
We are seeking a talented, highly motivated Junior Hospitality Interior Designer – FF&E to join our multidisciplinary design studio. Working alongside interior designers, architects, FF&E specialists, and project leaders, this role will contribute to the development of distinctive hospitality and entertainment environments for luxury hotels, resorts, casinos, integrated resorts, luxury gaming destinations, restaurants, lounges, VIP gaming salons, and other experience-driven venues around the world.
The ideal candidate has a strong design sensibility, an exceptional eye for detail, and a genuine interest in furniture, lighting, textiles, materials, art, and accessories. This is an opportunity for an emerging designer to develop their expertise within a collaborative, design-led practice recognized for creating memorable, sophisticated, and highly crafted hospitality, casino, and luxury gaming experiences.
Key Responsibilities
FF&E Design & Development
- Support the development of FF&E concepts that reinforce the overall interior design narrative, brand identity, and guest experience.
- Research and source furniture, decorative lighting, fabrics, rugs, artwork, accessories, and specialty items appropriate to each project's design direction, budget, operational requirements, and level of luxury.
- Assist in developing FF&E palettes, material schemes, mood boards, presentations, and specification packages.
- Participate in the selection of finishes, fabrics, leathers, trims, hardware, and other decorative materials.
- Assist with the design and development of custom furniture, lighting, rugs, millwork-related furnishings, and specialty pieces.
- Contribute to FF&E solutions for casino floors, VIP gaming salons, high-limit rooms, sports books, player lounges, hotel guestrooms, suites, restaurants, bars, clubs, and resort public spaces.
- Prepare furniture plans, elevations, design details, and supporting documentation under the direction of senior designers.
- Maintain awareness of emerging hospitality, casino, gaming, furniture, textile, lighting, material, art, and lifestyle trends.
- Consider guest comfort, circulation, sightlines, durability, maintenance, and operational performance when developing FF&E solutions for high-traffic hospitality and gaming environments.
Casino & Luxury Gaming Design
- Support the creation of immersive, high-energy, and luxury gaming environments that balance guest experience, brand identity, operational efficiency, and visual impact.
- Assist with FF&E development for gaming floors, table-game areas, slot environments, VIP and high-limit gaming rooms, casino lounges, and associated hospitality spaces.
- Coordinate furniture, lighting, materials, and decorative elements with gaming layouts and architectural planning.
- Develop design solutions appropriate for intensive 24/7 use while maintaining a refined luxury aesthetic.
- Assist in creating distinct guest experiences across different gaming zones, from energetic public casino environments to intimate, highly exclusive VIP areas.
- Support the integration of hospitality, entertainment, food and beverage, nightlife, and gaming into cohesive resort experiences.
- Gain familiarity with the unique operational, durability, security, accessibility, and regulatory considerations associated with casino and gaming design.
Specifications & Documentation
- Prepare and maintain accurate FF&E specifications, schedules, finish information, and supporting documentation.
- Coordinate product information including dimensions, finishes, quantities, pricing, lead times, performance criteria, and manufacturer details.
- Assist with RFQs, vendor quotations, sample requests, and comparative product evaluations.
- Review vendor submittals, shop drawings, finish samples, prototypes, and control samples with senior team members.
- Maintain organized digital and physical material libraries, project samples, and specification records.
- Help ensure FF&E selections comply with applicable hospitality and gaming requirements for performance, durability, fire rating, accessibility, maintenance, and operations.
- Assist in documenting custom-designed furnishings and specialty elements appropriate for luxury casino and resort environments.
Project Coordination
- Collaborate closely with interior design, architectural, planning, lighting, and visualization teams to ensure FF&E is fully integrated with the overall design.
- Coordinate with manufacturers, vendors, purchasing agents, gaming consultants, operators, consultants, contractors, and client representatives as required.
- Participate in internal design reviews, vendor presentations, client meetings, and project coordination meetings.
- Assist with procurement coordination, installation documentation, punch lists, styling, and project closeout when required.
- Support multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining accuracy, organization, and design quality.
- Assist teams working on complex, large-scale integrated resorts and casino developments involving hospitality, gaming, entertainment, food and beverage, retail, and nightlife components.
Presentation & Storytelling
- Produce compelling visual presentations that communicate FF&E concepts, materials, color palettes, and design intent.
- Assist in preparing client presentations, sample boards, rendered elevations, furniture studies, and design narratives.
- Contribute ideas during design charrettes and studio critiques.
- Help translate the project's conceptual story into a cohesive collection of furnishings, lighting, materials, art, and accessories.
- Support the development of distinctive visual identities for casino and gaming environments that range from bold and theatrical to discreet, refined, and ultra-luxurious.
- Understand how FF&E contributes to the complete guest journey across gaming, hospitality, entertainment, dining, and resort environments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Architecture, or a related design discipline.
- Approximately 0–3 years of professional interior design experience; hospitality, casino, gaming, resort, entertainment, or luxury residential experience is highly desirable.
- Strong interest in luxury hospitality, casino, integrated resort, and gaming design.
- Demonstrated understanding of furniture, materials, finishes, textiles, lighting, color, scale, and proportion.
- Ability to interpret architectural drawings, interior elevations, furniture plans, and design details.
- Interest in understanding the unique guest-experience and operational requirements of casino and gaming environments.
- Strong graphic and presentation skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly collaborative studio environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Curious, proactive, resourceful, and eager to learn from senior designers and specialists.
- Comfortable communicating professionally with vendors, manufacturers, consultants, operators, and project teams.
Software Skills
- Proficiency or working knowledge of several of the following is preferred:
- Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign and Photoshop
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- SketchUp
- Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365
- Bluebeam
- FF&E specification or procurement platforms
Experience with rendering, visualization, AI-assisted design tools, or additional 3D software is a plus.
Portfolio
Candidates should submit a portfolio demonstrating:
- Strong design sensibility and visual storytelling
- Hospitality, casino, gaming, resort, restaurant, entertainment, retail, luxury residential, or other experience-driven interior design work
- FF&E selections and material palettes
- Furniture and lighting knowledge
- Technical drawings and documentation
- Presentation and graphic communication skills
- An understanding of atmosphere, guest experience, and storytelling
- Academic projects may be included for candidates early in their careers
We are particularly interested in seeing the candidate's individual contribution, design thinking, attention to detail, and ability to translate a concept into a cohesive physical environment.
What We Look For
Beyond technical ability, we look for designers who are passionate about design, culturally curious, collaborative, and relentlessly attentive to detail. The successful candidate will be interested not simply in selecting beautiful objects, but in understanding how every furniture piece, material, texture, light fixture, artwork, and accessory contributes to the larger story of a hospitality or gaming experience.
You will thrive in an environment where ideas are openly exchanged, high standards are expected, and designers are encouraged to develop their own point of view while learning from an accomplished multidisciplinary team.
We value designers who are excited by the challenge of creating environments that can be glamorous, energetic, theatrical, intimate, luxurious, and operationally sophisticated—often within the same destination.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to contribute to high-profile hospitality, casino, integrated resort, and luxury gaming projects around the world
- Exposure to projects from early concept through documentation, procurement, and installation
- Experience working across gaming, hotels, resorts, restaurants, bars, clubs, VIP environments, entertainment venues, and luxury guest experiences
- Mentorship from experienced hospitality, casino, and FF&E designers and architects
- Direct exposure to leading international furniture, lighting, textile, and material manufacturers
- A collaborative, multidisciplinary studio culture
- Opportunities for professional development and increasing design responsibility
- The chance to build a sophisticated portfolio of work within an internationally focused design practice
Level: Entry / Junior
Discipline: Interior Design / FF&E
Project Focus: Luxury Hotels, Resorts, Casinos, Integrated Resorts, Luxury Gaming, VIP Gaming, Restaurants, Lounges & Entertainment Environments
Steelman Partners provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.