Lead Interior Designer

About The Company
Utopia is an ultra-luxury hospitality and lifestyle brand creating a global ecosystem of properties and experiences. We develop private villa retreats in beautiful locations around the world, each with high-end service. Utopia also offers a wider ecosystem of leisure experiences and services available both to those staying on property and to external visitors. Utopia designs and builds its properties in-house. Our projects span the full journey: from concept and architecture to construction, interiors, landscape, guest experience, and long-term operation. For architects and designers, this means contributing on properties from the ground up, with the ability to influence how each place is planned, built, and experienced. For hospitality professionals, it means collaborating with a brand where service is personal, attentive, and built around each guest’s stay. We’re a young, ambitious team with high standards and a hands-on approach. We value strong ideas, practical thinking, attention to detail, and people who are ready to take ownership of their part of each project. If you’re interested in architecture, design, hospitality, or guest experience, we invite you to explore opportunities with Utopia.

About The Role
We are looking for an ambitious and highly creative Lead Interior Designer to lead the design and delivery of high-end residential and hospitality projects. The successful candidate will have a proven record of completed projects and will be able to demonstrate their personal contribution from concept through construction and handover. They will lead and develop the interior design team, set a strong creative direction, and create and implement design standards across projects. This is a hands-on role requiring strong design judgement, ownership and resilience. The candidate must be able to manage tasks, teams and timelines across multiple projects, including work with short deadlines, while protecting quality and raising risks early.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead interior design projects from concept through handover.
• Create and implement design standards across projects.
• Manage, develop and coordinate the interior design team.
• Set priorities, allocate tasks and track team timelines.
• Review design proposals, drawings, materials, FF&E and visualisations.
• Coordinate with project teams, consultants, contractors and suppliers.
• Resolve design and delivery issues while protecting the design intent.
• Present design proposals to clients and senior stakeholders.
• Identify and escalate risks early. Requirements
• Degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Architecture or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience.
• At least three years of team management experience.
• Portfolio of completed high-end residential and hospitality projects.
• Demonstrated involvement from concept through construction and handover.
• Strong creativity, leadership and communication skills.
• Basic project management ability and experience managing team tasks and timelines.
• Resilience and proven ability to deliver under pressure and to short deadlines.
• Professional fluency in English. By submitting this application, I agree that my personal data will be collected, processed, and retained by the company solely for the purposes of managing and assessing my candidacy.