Design Consultant (PT)
Garance Rousseau / Los Angeles
Placed in: 1 day
Protect your time. Build your team.
From your first hire to your next Director, we help leading practices build lasting, high-performing teams.
How we work:
Your expertise is creating remarkable spaces, ours is recruiting hard-to-reach design talent.
Tell us who your team needs
Share with us what you’re looking for and what matters most in the role.
Let us recruit exceptional talent
We search and vet the strongest candidates across our network and the industry.
Meet talent worth hiring
Meet a focused shortlist of Designers already aligned with your needs.
Only pay when a match is made
No upfront fees. Pay only when you hire, at a fraction of traditional recruiting costs.
How we Do it
Better information makes for better introductions.
We've invested in technology that helps our recruiters work faster, with significantly more context, allowing us to deliver exceptional hiring outcomes at a fraction of the traditional cost.
Candidate profile
- Employment historyAD100 firmBoutique studioIn-house
- Design styleTraditionalModernMinimalist
- Portfolio & workResidentialHospitalityCommercial
- Career aspirationsStudio DirectorOwn practiceExpand portfolio
- Technical skillsRevitAutoCADSketchUp
- Openness to relocateLocal onlyOpen to relocateRemote
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FAQ
Reduced fee. No deposits, no retainers, no hidden fees — you pay only when you make a hire, at roughly half what a traditional search firm charges. You're also not limited to one recruiter's Rolodex: you get direct access to a vetted pool of thousands of designers and architects, meaning stronger shortlists and faster time to placement. And if a hire doesn't work out, we refund your fee rather than push a replacement candidate.
Job boards are passive. They don't attract the talent you need. You post, you wait, and you hear from people already blanketing the market with their resume. Or people abroad, or auto-apply bots. Duke Talent is active: we put you in front of the hidden talent market, the designers and architects who aren't applying anywhere because they don't need to. The result is a smaller, sharper pool where the profiles you see are actually worth your time.
LinkedIn is built for everyone, so high-end design talent gets buried under a billion unrelated profiles. Duke Talent is built exclusively for high-end interior design and architecture — every member on the platform is already relevant to your search. You can filter on the things that actually predict fit: project type, project budget, software proficiency, educational background, and remote-work preference.
No — joining the platform, posting roles, and reviewing talent cost nothing, and there is never a deposit or retainer. A fee is due only if you find the perfect hire and decide to move forward.
Interior Designers and Architects working on high-end residential, hospitality, retail, and workplace projects — and no one else. Every member completes an application including an interview and identity verification before they're granted access.
Because our members are already vetted and on the platform, you're reviewing real, matched profiles in days — not waiting weeks for a recruiter to build a list from scratch from outdated binders and notebooks. Most searches move from brief to first conversations within the first week. The pace after that is set by your calendar, not ours.
Yes. The platform is private and not publicly accessible, and you control what's visible about your firm and your role. Discretion is the norm in this industry, and we've built the platform around that assumption rather than bolting it on.
Yes. Many of our firms use Duke Talent to source project-based consultants for a single scope or a defined phase. The model is the same — no retainer, and a fee only when you engage someone.
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