Role: Director – Hospitality, Full-Service

Reports To: Chief Design Officer

Location: Chicago - Downtown

Company Overview

Design Environments is a leading national interior design and interior architecture company that provides interior design, furniture, fixture and equipment procurement services, project management and warehousing and installation services to its clients.

Headquartered in Marietta, GA, the company has design studios and offices in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and Greensboro, NC. The company is the culmination of five acquired companies by Blackford Capital based in Grand Rapids, MI over the past five years. Recently in September 2022 the companies were consolidated and rebranded as Design Environments. The company services the hospitality, senior living, multi-family housing, single family housing, and student housing market verticals.

One of the company’s primary target markets for accelerated growth is in the hospitality full-service market that includes brand hotels, soft brand hotels and independent hotels.

The company differentiates itself from its competitors by delivering innovative solutions with a concierge level of service. The company’s long-term success has come from the relationships it has built and by delivering results that exceed our client’s expectations.

Role

The company is planning to aggressively grow its interior design team focused on full service and lifestyle hotel and needs an experienced, driven, relationship-oriented professional to lead this team. Someone who is a charismatic leader that provides inspiration and motivation to clients, projects and teams.

As the Director of the Chicago – Downtown team, you will help determine the talent needed to create a dynamic team and work with Chief Designer Officer (CDO) to build the full service/lifestyle team.

A Director should have a well-rounded skill set and be able to guide clients, projects and teams through all design phases. The role requires a keen sense of design and the design business. This is a leadership role internally and externally as the position would be representing Design Environments in various industry events and conferences.

The position requires an entrepreneurial spirit and is for someone who wants to be part of building something excellent and leading a team to success.

Job Responsibilities

Required Skills – Mentor Level

Key Attributes

Experience

Compensation Package