Design Manager, Lifestyle, EAME

We believe that hotels should be more than just places to sleep—they should be destinations, experiences, and moments in time that guests remember long after they leave. That’s why we challenge the status quo, bringing bold ideas, unconventional luxury, and immersive culture to everything we do. The Lifestyle Group by Hyatt is a newly established collective of experience, design and culture driven hotel brands, formed in January 2024 following Hyatt's acquisition of Standard International, the parent company of The Standard and Bunkhouse Hotels brands. The Lifestyle Group brings together bold creative vision and global scale. Our portfolio includes The Standard, Bunkhouse Hotels, The StandardX, The Manner, Andaz, Thompson, Dream, JdV, Breathless, and me and all; each with its own point of view, all driven by culture, design, and community.

We’re now on the lookout for a Design Manager, Lifestyle, EAME, based in London, to join our Design & Creative Services team and help bring this vision to life across the EAME region. We celebrate individuality, diversity, and creativity. We believe in hiring people, not just CVs. If you’re ready to be part of something truly unique, we’d love to meet you.

As the Design Manager, Lifestyle, EAME, you’ll support the creative development and delivery of design-forward hospitality projects across our Lifestyle brands. Working closely with the Design Department and Business Development teams, you’ll help shape projects from early concept through execution, ensuring each one reflects its brand DNA while pushing boundaries. You’ll support program development, test fits, and blocking diagrams for new opportunities, as well as the creation of design presentations, pitch decks, mood boards, material palettes, and project narratives. You’ll assist with preparing scopes of work, requests for proposals, and project schedules, and support coordination with consultants and vendors across new builds and renovations.

Day to day, you’ll help manage internal timelines and milestones, working cross-functionally with development, marketing, nightlife, and other Lifestyle Group teams to keep projects moving forward. You’ll support clear and accurate reporting on active, pending, and completed projects, maintain organised project documentation and file flow for global access, and ensure information is distributed accurately and on time. You’ll also help maintain brand design standards, toolkits, and guidelines, supporting consistent design execution across markets while allowing space for creativity and local relevance. You’ll participate in project kick-offs, design workshops, and consultant meetings as a creative representative of The Lifestyle Group, acting as a brand design advocate and helping ensure every project aligns with our creative ambition, cultural relevance, and experiential spirit.

We’re looking for a design-led thinker with impeccable organisation and a genuine obsession with lifestyle hospitality. You’ll need miles and miles of personality, energy, and a passion for building relationships. You thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy environment, and you know how to keep your cool when things get busy. In addition to this you will also need:

• A professional degree in Architecture or Interior Design, with a minimum of six years’ post-graduate experience in architecture and interiors
• Hospitality experience strongly preferred, with international exposure a plus
• A solid understanding of construction and design documentation, alongside excellent space planning skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple long-term projects while juggling short-term priorities
• Strong technical proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro (additional Adobe tools a plus), and Microsoft Office
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with additional languages an advantage
• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally as required
• A can-do, hands-on mindset, a collaborative approach, and the ability to laugh at the impossible and enjoy a challenge
• Able to work a varied schedule, which may include occasional evenings, weekends and public holidays

If you think you can design a space people won’t want to leave (and will definitely want to Instagram), send us your portfolio and tell us why you should be our Design Manager, Lifestyle, EAME, we’d love to meet you. All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates prior to commencing employment.