Design Manager

The Standard Hotel; Xico; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meals on duty

18 days holiday

Job summary

The Standard Mexico City is seeking a Design Manager to lead interior design initiatives across the property, partnering with the General Manager, senior leadership, and New York–based Corporate Design team.

You’ll drive FF&E and refurbishment efforts, shape guestrooms, restaurants, bars, and public spaces, and ensure concepts meet brief, budget and schedule while maintaining The Standard’s signature ethos.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in interior design, architecture, construction, or hospitality project management.
• Experience in Mexico City market and in a design-led or lifestyle environment.
• Portfolio demonstrating creativity and technical competence.
• Solid knowledge of Mexican building regulations and compliance processes.
• Experience managing refurbishments or construction projects within operational hotels.
• Experience leading FF&E selection, procurement, and installation from concept to completion.
• Commercial awareness with budget preparation and cost management.
• Strong project management with ability to handle multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead FF&E projects and refurbishment works, ensuring concepts stay on brief, on time and on budget.
• Oversee procurement, deliveries, and installations with minimal operational disruption.
• Maintain and evolve design ethos across guestrooms, restaurants, bars and public areas.
• Collaborate with Events, Marketing and F&B for launches and activations.
• Present strategy confidently to senior stakeholders and coordinate cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Events and Marketing.

Skills

Project management

Design portfolio

Cross-functional collaboration

Budgeting

Communication

MS Office

Adobe Creative Suite

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Rhino

Tools

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Rhino

3D design software

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

A bright café and late-night diner keep the ground floor lively from early mornings to the final nightcap. Above it all, a rooftop pool, signature restaurant and outdoor bar take in striking views of the Monumento a la Revolución. Each room and residence includes a private balcony, offering a front-row seat to the city.

The spa delivers thoughtful indulgence with a hydrotherapy, saunas and pools, plus a fitness studio with classes from yoga to HIIT. Set among Tabacalera’s galleries and creative corners, The Standard, Mexico City blends social energy with laid-back escapism in a way only The Standard can.

We are now looking for a Design Manager who will embody our Anything but Standard ethos and help shape The Standard, Mexico City.

Your role

As our Design Manager, you’ll partner with our General Manager, Senior Executive team, and our New York-based Corporate Design team to bring a wide range of interior design and creative initiatives to life across the property.

As part of our senior team, you’ll take the lead on critical FF&E projects and refurbishment works, ensuring design concepts and interior schemes remain on brief, on time, and on budget. You’ll have creative responsibility for the ongoing evolution and staging of our guestrooms, suites, restaurants, bars, and public areas, making sure every detail feels considered, culturally relevant, and unmistakably The Standard.

Once projects are approved, you’ll manage procurement, coordinate deliveries, and oversee installations to ensure every element lands as intended with minimal operational disruption.

You’ll also be the guardian of our design ethos across the property, from furniture layouts and lighting schemes to styling details and seasonal updates. This includes regular walk-throughs of guestrooms and public spaces to maintain standards and identify opportunities for creative enhancement.

In partnership with Events, Marketing, and F&B, you’ll deliver distinctive finishing touches for launches, collaborations, and cultural activations that surprise and delight.

This is not a ‘Standard’ Design Manager position. You’ll need instinct, stamina, and the ability to translate creative vision into tangible spaces under pressure. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, design-forward environment and feel as confident presenting strategy as you are being hands-on during installations.

Qualifications

Do you have what it takes to be our Design Manager at The Standard, Mexico City?

A minimum of 3–5 years’ experience in interior design, architecture, construction, or hospitality project management is essential, ideally within the Mexico City market and within a design-led or lifestyle environment.

In addition, the ideal candidate will...

• Have a strong understanding of the Mexico City hotel and lifestyle market, with awareness of current design trends across hospitality, food and beverage, retail, and cultural spaces.
• Demonstrate a refined design sensibility supported by a portfolio of completed projects that showcase both creativity and technical competence.
• Possess solid knowledge of Mexican building regulations, compliance processes, and statutory approvals.
• Have experience managing refurbishments or construction projects within operational hotels or high-volume hospitality environments.
• Be confident leading FF&E selection, procurement, and installation from concept through completion.
• Be commercially aware, with the ability to prepare costings, manage budgets, and deliver projects within agreed financial parameters.
• Have strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail alongside strong administrative and IT capability, including MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, and 3D design software such as SketchUp or Rhino.
• Be a confident communicator, comfortable presenting ideas to senior stakeholders and collaborating cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Events, and Marketing.
• Be well connected within Mexico City’s design, supplier, and creative communities.
• Have a flexible approach to working hours where project timelines and installations require.

Benefits Include:

• Meals on duty
• 18 Days Holidayanalysis<|message|>We truncated incorrectly due to chat message length? Need to produce full snippet exactly. It's truncated. I need to finish last part. Let's write entire string properly.{