Senior Interior Designer

We are looking for a Senior Interior Designer to create and implement, along with our owners, functional and guest-pleasing FF&E designs across our growing portfolio. Reporting into the Chief Product Officer, with a strong relationship to the Chief Development Officer, and working closely with the Operations team, this strategic role will be responsible for both building and executing against Mint House’s design foundations.

• Own Mint House’s design strategy, foundations and process working closely with the senior team to create the strategy and with internal and external stakeholders to visually communicate the brand. 
• Be the primary design point of contact across multiple projects, manage expectations and ensure satisfaction across the Brand, Real Estate, Operations and Finance teams. 
• Create floor plans, mood boards and quickly mock up layouts for new and existing projects.
• Collaborate with Operations to make designs functional and durable for hospitality spaces.
• Conduct research and development for new properties against brand design standards (that you will create), building specifications and local market needs and priorities.
• Work within the budget agreed to between the Real Estate Team and Ownership.
• Collaborate with Procurement to adhere to given budgets and within the vendor network. 
• Project manage design timelines and deliverables for all design projects. Fully responsible for design deliverables and timelines, working in conjunction with the lead Project Manager.
• Oversee ongoing design projects within existing markets. Ex: Capex, window and wall treatments, FFE refreshes. 
• ​​Assist with remote styling and photo shoots to make sure projects are up to brand quality.
• Lend creative eye to design-related brand and operations initiatives such as in-room amenities, onsite signage and experiential marketing activations as relevant.
• Oversee junior designers, freelancers, stylists, and photographers in partnership with the Brand team. 
• Attend trade shows for inspiration and to source new vendors as necessary. 
• Ability to create, review, and approve technical drawings.
• Create renderings for new property openings and expansions and support all pre-sales activities
• Specify all furniture and decor pieces. Assist or consult on specifying fixtures and finishes in conjunction with developers.
• Some projects may come with existing furniture, and some projects may be designed pre-opening.
• Some projects may entail Mint House handling full Design, some may entail working closely with ownership’s design team in a more review and participation manner. 

• 4-5 years of professional experience in hotel/hospitality is required
• Owner focused mind-set; ability to collaborate and be flexible/creative internally and externally.
• Experience managing and sticking to a budget while looking for cost savings opportunities without sacrificing quality
• Portfolio must demonstrate experience or thinking in housing, hospitality or residential design
• Strong and direct communicator who can work autonomously in an entrepreneurial environment 
• Experience managing others including cross-functional and distributed teams
• ​​An eye for every little detail and how to create tone-setting, impactful brand moments 
• Basic architectural knowledge is preferred 
• Strong knowledge of CAD
• Ability to travel 30%+ of the time 
• Presentation skills and ability to present designs to multiple audiences
• Comfortable and open to receiving feedback
• Basic furniture design or custom piece production work preferred

Compensation range: $100,000-$115,000