Senior Interior Design Project Designer

The Senior Interior Design Project Designer serves as BHC's Owner's Representative for all interior design decisions across assigned luxury hospitality projects. This role is responsible for managing external interior design consultants, championing BHC's design vision, and ensuring that every interior decision reflects the quality, guest experience, and long-term ownership values that define BHC properties.

This position emphasizes design integrity, lessons-learned thinking, cross-disciplinary coordination, and a deep understanding of how interior decisions affect guest experience and asset durability. The Interior Project Manager is the owner's voice on interior design matters, working in close partnership with the Director of Design and broader Design and Construction team.

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.

• 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.