Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BHC is a hospitality company seeking a Senior Interior Design Project Designer to serve as the Owner's Representative for luxury hospitality projects. This role involves managing external design consultants, ensuring design integrity, and aligning interior decisions with BHC's vision and standards for guest experience and durability.
Responsibilities
- Serve as BHC's owner's voice for all interior design decisions on assigned projects
- Protect BHC's interests in design quality, material selection, guest experience, and long-term durability of interior finishes and furnishings
- Direct and manage external interior design consultants, ensuring deliverables align with BHC's vision, budget, and schedule
- Uphold BHC's standards for design excellence, integrity, and the guest experience in every project interaction
- Review all interior design drawings, specifications, and submittals at every stage — schematic design through construction documents — providing thorough, actionable written feedback
- Evaluate design proposals against BHC's brand standards, operational requirements, constructability, and budget — flagging conflicts and recommending solutions
- Manage the drawing review and comment cycle, tracking open items and ensuring timely resolution by the design team
- Ensure design intent is met during construction and provide proactive solutions during installs
- Maintain and actively apply a library of lessons learned from prior BHC projects — including material performance, detailing failures, specification gaps, and vendor issues
- Proactively brief external design teams on BHC's institutional knowledge and standards at project outset, and reinforce throughout the design process
- Continuously document new lessons learned and contribute to BHC's evolving standards for interior design and specification
- Collect, consolidate, and clearly communicate owner feedback to external design teams, ensuring comments are specific, prioritized, and actionable
- Manage the owner review and approval process across design milestones, tracking outstanding decisions and keeping the design process on schedule
- Facilitate alignment between internal stakeholders — including Operations, Asset Management, and Construction — and external design consultants on key design decisions
- Champion interior design quality, material specification, and finish detailing that reflects BHC's standards for luxury, durability, and guest experience
- Ensure interior design solutions meet BHC standards — not just minimum brand requirements or designer preference
- Participate in sample and mock-up reviews, FF&E presentations, and material approvals — providing clear owner direction at each milestone
- Partner closely with the Project Director, Director of Design, Operations, and Asset Management teams to ensure interior design decisions support buildability, operations, and asset performance
- Serve as the primary point of contact for external interior design consultants throughout the project lifecycle
- Coordinate interior design decisions with construction sequencing, procurement lead times, and FF&E delivery schedules
- Prepare and deliver clear design status reports and decision logs to the Director of Design and Project Director
- Oversee the FF&E design and specification process, coordinating with designers, procurement teams, and vendors to ensure selections align with BHC's standards and budget
- Track owner-provided items (OPI) and owner-furnished, contractor-installed (OFCI) items through procurement, delivery, and installation
- Manage interior design closeout activities, including as-built documentation, material submittals, warranty records, and attic stock coordination
- Coordinate the interior punch list and installation review with the construction team to ensure a seamless transition to operations
- Conduct post-opening design evaluations, capturing lessons learned for application on future BHC projects
- Maintain a culture of accountability, respect, and design excellence across all internal and external team interactions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Interior Design
- 5–10 years of interior design project management experience, with exposure to owner's representative or client-side roles
- Strong command of contracts, budgeting, scheduling, and risk management
- Experience managing external design consultants and directing design from the owner's side
- Demonstrated experience in luxury hospitality, resort, or high-end mixed-use interior projects
- Familiarity with FF&E procurement, vendor management, and owner-furnished item coordination
- Experience working with or alongside luxury-branded or independent hospitality operators
- Working knowledge of construction documents and the ability to read drawings across architectural, interior, and MEP disciplines
- NCIDQ certification or equivalent
- Visually literate and design-fluent, with a genuine appreciation for craft, material quality, and spatial experience
- Confident owner's voice — able to give clear, constructive direction to designers without overstepping into the creative process
- Organized and detail-oriented, with strong judgment on when to decide independently and when to escalate
- Respected collaborator to designers, operators, and construction teams — able to bridge the creative and the practical
- Committed to design quality, long-term durability, and the guest experience as the ultimate measure of success
- High integrity and a genuine sense of ownership over every design decision made on behalf of BHC
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