Director, Interior Design

About MN Custom Homes

Founded in 2011 by two Bellevuelocals, we have grown to become the preeminent Eastside luxury home builder today. Since Day 1 we have been driven by innovation and obsessed with setting our homes apart through their overall design and functionality. We truly get a thrill doing what we love most: building thoughtful homes that inspire community. Learn more about us and see our work at:

We pride ourselves on our empowered team environment and dedication to taking care of our people. We believe in setting you up to succeed with clear career progression, learning opportunities, and ownership of your role from the get-go. Accountability is huge for us, and we place a lot of trust in our employees to do the right thing. We believe that a supportive and inclusive culture yields happy people, and happy people are the most successful at what they do.

The Interior Design Leader is responsible for elevating design excellence across the organization. This role ensures all interior designs achieve high levels of aesthetic quality, technical accuracy, customer desirability, and business viability. The position leads the creation and stewardship of scalable selection systems, including capsule collections, kits-of-parts, guardrails, and standards, that integrate buyer insights, field feedback, and market expectations. The Interior Design Leader partners closely with the Architecture Design Leader and cross-functional teams to create beautiful, livable, profitable homes aligned with company strategy.

• Translates product strategy into interior design standards, capsule collections, kits-of-parts, and reusable selection systems.
• Defines and refines distinct capsule identities with clear stylistic parameters, ensuring collections remain differentiated, cohesive, and aligned with target buyer demographics.
• Provides creative direction that translates conceptual vision into actionable, executable design standards and minimizes downstream reinterpretation.
• Establishes clear design rationale, material strategies, and architectural alignment early in the process to support stronger decision-making and reduce rework.
• Grounds design decisions in local market and buyer-based reasoning rather than one-off preferences.
• Ensures capsule collections maintain integrity over time by evaluating reselections, vendor substitutions, and field-driven changes against original design intent.
• Builds a coherent, repeatable MN Interior Design Language.

• Delivers luxury-grade, cohesive interiors that translate the exterior expression into interior spaces and resonate with buyers.
• Ensures homes are holistically designed: interiors, architecture, materials, lighting, and spatial planning working together as a cohesive experience that meets target buyers’ lifestyle needs.
• Drives elevated, timeless design solutions rooted in strong architectural thinking, restraint, proportion, and materiality rather than trend-chasing.
• Maintains high standards for detailing, composition, and execution so design intent translates successfully from concept through construction.
• Designs research questions and engages buyers and agents to test new ideas and validate key hypotheses.
• Uses buyer insights, market comps, and lifestyle data to guide design direction.

• Partners with Procurement to strategically source capsule collections.
• Improves margins via standardization and value engineering.
• Ensures designs meet customer needs while conforming to project budgets.
• Leads “Design-to-Value” work to determine high-impact features.

• Implements AI-enabled workflows across selection tools, visualization, and digital libraries.
• Drives simplification and automation of , including migration to Revit and related technologies, to improve coordination, speed, accuracy, consistency, scalability, and reduce downstream errors.

• Partners with Architecture, Procurement, Construction, Land Acquisition, Sales,…