Midweight Interior Designer - Hospitality Projects in London

Middleweight Interior Designer | Hospitality Projects

London | Hybrid

£40,000 – £45,000

9-day fortnight | Every other Friday off

What if your next hospitality project wasn't just judged by how good it looked on opening night, but by how intelligently it had been designed for the next five, ten or twenty years?

Modus Careers is working with an independent London design practice that is approaching hospitality interiors differently. Their work combines high-quality commercial interior design with genuine circular economy thinking, challenging the conventional cycle of fit-out, strip-out and start again. Sustainability isn't something added to the project at the end. It influences how spaces are conceived, specified, detailed and ultimately delivered. They've already demonstrated that this approach can produce some exceptional spaces.

Their portfolio includes a Green Michelin-starred London restaurant, sustainable fire-cooking hospitality concepts, the design and rollout of 25 sites for a major UK brand, an 11,000 sq ft headquarters and the development of sustainable design standards for one of the UK's best-known heritage organisations. The work has subsequently been recognised across the Dezeen Awards, BIID Awards, and more.

They're now looking for a Middleweight Interior Designer to join the studio.

The Opportunity

This isn't a role for somebody who wants to sit permanently at one end of the design process. You'll work across concept, design development and delivery, helping turn ideas into hospitality environments that are creative, commercially considered and buildable.

You'll likely have around 3–5 years' experience within UK commercial interior design, with hospitality forming a meaningful part of your portfolio. That could include restaurants, bars, cafés, F&B rollouts or other customer-facing hospitality environments. The quality of your work matters, but so does the way you think about it.

The studio wants designers who are genuinely interested in sustainability, circular design and reducing the environmental impact of interiors. You don't need to arrive as a circular economy expert, but you should want to learn, question conventional approaches and push this side of your work further. Vectorworks experience would be useful, but it isn't essential. If your hospitality experience and portfolio are right, the team can support you in developing the software.

The Studio Culture

There's a deliberate lack of chaos here. The team describes its culture as low entropy: organised people, straightforward systems and sensible ways of working designed to remove unnecessary admin and leave more space for creativity. They also value an owner's mindset. If you see something that needs doing, you take responsibility for helping make it happen rather than deciding it belongs to somebody else. And when things don't work? Test, learn, improve and move forward. It's an optimistic environment without a blame culture, but one where people are expected to be open, accountable and honest with each other.

The Package

The salary is £40,000–£45,000 depending on experience, alongside a working model that is unusually flexible for the design industry. The studio is based in London Bridge, with a minimum expectation of one studio day per week and ideally two to three depending on projects and collaboration. More importantly, the business operates a nine-day fortnight. That means every other Friday is yours, fully paid. There's also a £100 monthly hospitality research budget, specifically there to encourage the team to get out, eat, drink and experience interesting new places. After all, if you're designing hospitality environments, you should probably be experiencing them too.

What We're Looking For

• Around 3–5 years' UK commercial interior design experience
• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality completed work
• Strong hospitality / F&B design experience
• Experience contributing across concept through to technical development and delivery
• A genuine interest in sustainability and circular design
• The confidence to take responsibility for your work and contribute ideas
• Vectorworks experience would be beneficial, but training can be provided

This could be particularly interesting if you've reached the point where you want your work to have a little more purpose behind it. You'll still be designing great hospitality spaces. You'll still care about materials, details, atmosphere and how people experience them. You'll just be doing it somewhere that's asking a bigger question: How do we create great interiors without designing tomorrow's waste at the same time? If that sounds like the kind of challenge you'd like to be part of, get in touch with Modus Careers for a confidential conversation.