APAC Retail Spatial Design Leader

TEA EXPLORER PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CHAGEE seeks an APAC Spatial Design Lead to define and deliver the physical brand experience across Asia-Pacific. You will translate global brand principles into commercially viable stores, flagships, and pop-ups, working with cross-functional teams to ensure consistency and local relevance.

The role calls for leading regional design delivery, maintaining standards, and collaborating with Real Estate, Operations, Procurement, and market teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Architecture, Spatial Design, Environmental Design, Retail Design, or a related discipline.
• Approximately 8–12+ years of relevant professional experience in retail, F&B, hospitality, lifestyle, consumer, or commercial interior design.
• Demonstrated experience leading regional or multi-market design projects across APAC or similarly complex international markets.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end delivery of physical retail environments, including store concepts, flagships, hospitality spaces, F&B outlets, cafés, lifestyle retail, or other high-traffic consumer spaces.
• Experience in a fast-growing retail, QSR, beverage, hospitality, fashion, beauty, sportswear, or consumer-lifestyle brand is highly preferred.
• Experience managing external design consultants, construction partners, suppliers, and technical stakeholders.
• Prior people-leadership experience is preferred; candidates with strong project leadership and readiness to build a regional team will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own APAC spatial-design strategy, principles, standards, and playbooks for CHAGEE retail environments.
• Translate brand identity and customer-experience ambition into scalable APAC store experiences.
• Establish design frameworks for standard stores, mall locations, flagships, and pop-ups.
• Define regional design language across storefronts, layouts, materials, lighting, signage, and visual merchandising.
• Lead end-to-end design delivery for priority APAC projects from concept through handover.
• Partner with Real Estate and Store Development to assess site potential and brand impact.
• Develop mood boards, test fits, layouts, material palettes, and visualization briefs.
• Ensure designs support efficient operations, beverage equipment, service counters, and flow.
• Lead flagship and concept-store experiences communicating CHAGEE's tea culture and innovation.
• Support spatial design for pop-ups, events, and activations where required.
• Build regional standards, guidelines, and toolkits for local markets and external partners.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Architecture, Spatial Design, Environmental Design, Retail Design, or a related discipline

Job description

CHAGEE seeks an APAC Spatial Design Lead to define and deliver the physical brand experience across Asia-Pacific. You will translate global brand principles into commercially viable stores, flagships, and pop-ups, working with cross-functional teams to ensure consistency and local relevance.

The role calls for leading regional design delivery, maintaining standards, and collaborating with Real Estate, Operations, Procurement, and market teams.