Architect / Interior Designer

About the job:Material Depot is looking for a creative, detail-oriented Interior Designer to join our Bengaluru team. This is an entry-level, full-time opportunity for someone who wants hands-on experience in retail interiors, showroom design, spatial planning, visual merchandising, and experience design. You will help shape how customers explore and experience materials in our stores - creating thoughtfully planned spaces, displays, and renderings that make the material-shopping journey inspiring, simple, and engaging. You will work closely with the design and execution teams on new stores, showrooms, display zones, and customer-facing interior concepts.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop furniture layouts, space-planning drawings, and circulation plans for stores, showrooms, display areas, and experience centres.

2. Prepare detailed architectural and interior drawings, including plans, elevations, sections, ceiling layouts, furniture details, and design documentation.

3. Assist in creating facade drawings, storefront concepts, signage zones, and external visual identity elements.

4. Design material displays, sample walls, product bays, and visual-merchandising layouts for tiles, laminates, wall panels, wallpapers, flooring, and other interior materials.

5. Support the creation of immersive, customer-friendly material-shopping experiences that help visitors visualise products in real home settings.

6. Create high-quality 3D views, renders, and visual presentations to communicate interior concepts, display ideas, and spatial experiences.

7. Help develop showroom concepts that balance aesthetics, functionality, customer movement, product visibility, and ease of selection.

8. Coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and execution partners to translate concepts into accurate, execution-ready drawings.

9. Assist on new store launches, showroom upgrades, display installations, and ongoing design improvements across Material Depot locations.

10. Research current interior, retail, material, and visual-merchandising trends to bring fresh ideas to the team.

11. Ensure drawings, layouts, finishes, colours, materials, proportions, and display details are aligned with Material Depot's design standards.

If you are excited by the idea of designing spaces that help people imagine their homes - and want to craft India's most inspiring material-shopping experience - we'd love to hear from you.Who can apply:Only those candidates can apply who:have minimum 1 years of experienceSalary:₹ 6,50,000 - 8,60,000 /yearExperience:1 year(s)Deadline:[hidden]:59:59Other perks:Informal dress code, Health InsuranceSkills required:AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop and Google SketchUp Other Requirements:1. 0–2 years of relevant experience in interior design, retail design, showroom design, or visual merchandising. Freshers with a strong portfolio are welcome.2. Proficiency in AutoCAD and SketchUp is required; knowledge of rendering tools such as Enscape, V-Ray, Lumion, or similar software is an advantage.3. Strong understanding of spatial planning, furniture layouts, design detailing, and retail circulation.4. Ability to create clear technical drawings as well as visually strong concept presentations and renders.5. A good eye for materials, colours, textures, proportions, lighting, and visual displays.6. Interest in experience design and in creating spaces that make material discovery intuitive and exciting for customers.7. Ability to manage multiple design tasks, work collaboratively, and meet project timelines.8. Bachelor's in Architecture or Interior Design is requiredAbout Company:Material Depot is a Y-Combinator-backed startup transforming how architects and designers discover and purchase interior materials. We're building India's first online discovery engine + omnichannel retail experience for materials like tiles, laminates, wallpapers, wooden flooring, wall panels, and more. We are backed by global investors, including Accel, Whiteboard Capital, and Y Combinator, and are working with 1,000+ top designers. With over $4M+ in annualized revenue, we're one of the fastest-growing startups in this space.

Responsibilities

Material Depot is looking for a creative, detail-oriented Interior Designer to join our Bengaluru team. This is an entry-level, full-time opportunity for someone who wants hands-on experience in retail interiors, showroom design, spatial planning, visual merchandising, and experience design. You will help shape how customers explore and experience materials in our stores - creating thoughtfully planned spaces, displays, and renderings that make the material-shopping journey inspiring, simple, and engaging. You will work closely with the design and execution teams on new stores, showrooms, display zones, and customer-facing interior concepts.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop furniture layouts, space-planning drawings, and circulation plans for stores, showrooms, display areas, and experience centres.

2. Prepare detailed architectural and interior drawings, including plans, elevations, sections, ceiling layouts, furniture details, and design documentation.

3. Assist in creating facade drawings, storefront concepts, signage zones, and external visual identity elements.

4. Design material displays, sample walls, product bays, and visual-merchandising layouts for tiles, laminates, wall panels, wallpapers, flooring, and other interior materials.

5. Support the creation of immersive, customer-friendly material-shopping experiences that help visitors visualise products in real home settings.

6. Create high-quality 3D views, renders, and visual presentations to communicate interior concepts, display ideas, and spatial experiences.

7. Help develop showroom concepts that balance aesthetics, functionality, customer movement, product visibility, and ease of selection.

8. Coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and execution partners to translate concepts into accurate, execution-ready drawings.

9. Assist on new store launches, showroom upgrades, display installations, and ongoing design improvements across Material Depot locations.

10. Research current interior, retail, material, and visual-merchandising trends to bring fresh ideas to the team.

11. Ensure drawings, layouts, finishes, colours, materials, proportions, and display details are aligned with Material Depot's design standards.

If you are excited by the idea of designing spaces that help people imagine their homes - and want to craft India's most inspiring material-shopping experience - we'd love to hear from you.