Senior Interior Design Project Designer

Duties & 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cook 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.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Interior Design.
• 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.
• 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.
• A 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.
• A 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.