The Context
Metaphor Design-Build is a boutique interior design and build firm working exclusively within Organo residential communities — nine projects across Hyderabad, from Antharam to Depalle to Rurban Lofts at Shankarpally. We are not a general interiors firm. We work within a specific, committed community of homeowners who have made a considered choice about how they want to live.
Our Philosophy
“Indian Contemporary — not just a style, but a sensibility. An embrace of heritage and freedom.”
We don’t do catalogue interiors. We don’t do European minimalism with Indian accents applied as an afterthought. We build homes that feel unmistakably like the people who live in them — rooted in Indian craft, material, and memory, but entirely of today.
What We Have Built
Completed projects at Organo Antharam — homes with Pattachitra on the walls, hand-thrown pottery on the shelves, turmeric-coloured plaster, and teak that is solid, not laminated. Homes that our clients return to not because they are beautiful, but because they feel like themselves.
We also publish GHAR, a premium print magazine distributed monthly to 600 Organo homeowners. It tells you something about how seriously we take the cultural dimension of what we do.
02 — The Role
The Core Truth About This Role
This is a design-and-build position. You are not handing a brief to a contractor and reviewing it at the end. You are on site. You know your contractors by name. You have worked with them before. You can read a working drawing, resolve a detail at the drawing board, and communicate it to a craftsperson on site — all in the same day. You can also sit with a client that evening and tell them, clearly and warmly, exactly where their home stands.
Your Responsibilities
Design Development Take a client’s life, aspirations, and the specific character of their Organo home from concept through to a resolved, fully detailed design. Every material called out. Every joint considered. Every transition thought through. Not a mood board service — a real design, buildable and beautiful.
Design Detailing Produce detailed drawings that leave nothing to interpretation on site. Joinery details, material transitions, built-in furniture, lighting integration — drawn with precision in AutoCAD, modelled in SketchUp, visualised in Enscape. The contractor should be able to build from your drawings without calling you to clarify.
Client Communication Keep clients informed at every stage — design progress, construction milestones, material approvals, payment requests and receipts. No client should ever have to ask what is happening with their home. You tell them before they think to ask.
Project & Design Management Own the full timeline from concept sign-off to handover. Track design decisions, contractor schedules, procurement, and budgets with meticulous discipline. A well-managed project is itself a form of design.
Contractor Management Hire, brief, and hold contractors to standard. You have had the hard conversations on site. You know what a good weld looks like, when plaster finish is wrong, and how to get it corrected without losing the relationship or the week.
Material Sourcing India is your catalogue. You know where the good dhokra comes from. You know which Hyderabad stone yard has the best Kota. You find Indian material more interesting than European — and your sourcing reflects that.
Delivery Projects delivered on time, on budget, and to a quality that makes the client want to put you in their project book — because we actually do make one for every home.
The Communities You Will Work In
All nine Organo projects: Antharam, Kandawada, Damaragidda, Rurban Lofts, Ibrahimpalle, Aloor, Palgutta, Depalle, and upcoming projects. Each community has its own character. A Damaragidda home should feel like it belongs to its forest edge. A Rurban Lofts home has different bones entirely. Learning the communities — their materials, their microclimates, their residents — is part of the job from Day 1.
03 — The Voice
If the designer cannot speak about their design, who can?
Why This Matters to Us
Design does not speak for itself. The material choice, the spatial decision, the detail that took three iterations to resolve — none of these are legible to a client unless the designer articulates them. Writing and documentation are not administrative tasks at Metaphor. They are a core part of the design practice.
A designer who cannot explain why they made a decision has not fully understood it themselves. The act of writing about a design — its ideation, its development, its final form — is also an act of design thinking. We take it seriously and we expect you to as well.
What You Will Write & Document
Design Ideation The initial concept for each home — written as a clear, specific design narrative. What is the idea? What informed it? How does it respond to this family, this site, this community? Not a list of features. A story with a point of view.
Design Development As the design evolves, document the decisions made and why. What changed from the concept stage and what drove that change. This becomes an internal record that keeps the whole team aligned and gives the client a window into the process.
Design Manifestation The completed home documented in writing — room by room, decision by decision. This feeds directly into the client’s project book, GHAR magazine features, and Metaphor’s editorial archive. Your written documentation of a completed project has a long life.
Client Progress Updates Regular written updates to clients on design progress, construction status, material procurement, payment schedules, and receipts. Clear, warm, specific. A client should never feel uninformed about their own home.
Site & Contractor Notes Written briefs for contractors, site inspection notes, change logs. The discipline of documenting what was decided on site protects the project and the relationship.
The Standard We Expect
· Your written English is clear, specific, and warm — not corporate, not vague · You can write a paragraph about a room that makes someone want to be in it · You do not hide behind jargon — you explain design decisions in language a thoughtful client can understand · Your documentation is organised, timestamped, and retrievable — not scattered across WhatsApp threads · You find the act of writing about your work clarifying, not burdensome
05 — What We Need
Non-Negotiable
Location Based in Hyderabad, or willing to relocate here fully.
Qualification B.ID or M.ID from a recognised institution.
Experience Minimum 10 years in high-end residential interior design. 10 years of real design responsibility, from brief to handover.
Portfolio At least 8 completed high-end homes where the interior execution cost was ₹40 lakhs or above, excluding furnishing. Projects you designed and delivered — not contributed to peripherally.
Software Mastery in all three: SketchUp, Enscape, and AutoCAD. All three are required. Proficiency in two is not sufficient.
Detailing Deep, demonstrated competence in design detailing — joinery, material transitions, built-in furniture, lighting integration. Your drawings should be buildable without a phone call to clarify.
Build Experience Direct experience hiring and managing contractors. We will ask about specific projects where you had full site ownership and about a time something went wrong and what you did.
Documentation & Writing The ability to write clearly about your design work — ideation, development, and completed outcome. We will ask for a writing sample. This is a core part of the role, not a nice-to-have.
Client Communication Impeccable. Design progress, construction updates, payment requests and receipts — all communicated proactively. Written as strong as verbal.
Strong Preferences
· An Instagram presence that shows a genuine design point of view — not just project documentation · Demonstrated interest in Indian craft, textiles, and material culture · Experience working in Hyderabad residential contexts specifically · The ability to produce hand sketches · Familiarity with Organo communities or similar community-living formats
What Metaphor Offers In Return
The work — High-end residential projects with clients who have chosen to invest seriously. No catalogue briefs. No compromised executions.
The community — Nine Organo communities with deep resident relationships — clients who know each other, refer each other, and value design.
The brand — A firm with a defined philosophy, a premium magazine, and a growing reputation built on restraint and quality — not volume.
The culture — A small, committed team where your work is seen, your point of view matters, and the standard expected of you is the same standard we hold ourselves to.
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