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Design Manager (Freelance)

Charcoalblue 🌍 Remote

Remote Contract Manager

Provide subject matter expertise and design guidance for event and experience spaces while ensuring architectural designs align with client vision. Manage stakeholder relationships and produce documentation to support the delivery of complex projects within the workplace sector.

Responsibilities

  • Provide subject matter expertise and design guidance for event and experience spaces while ensuring architectural designs align with client vision. Manage stakeholder relationships and produce documentation to support the delivery of complex projects within the workplace sector.

Requirements

  • Requires a minimum of five years of professional experience in event management, experiential design, or the construction of performing arts and hospitality spaces. Candidates must be adept at reading construction drawings and possess strong communication skills to synthesize complex information for executive audiences.

Key Skills

Design leadership Event design Experiential design Construction drawing interpretation Stakeholder relationship management Documentation production Architectural alignment Creative direction Project management Cross‑functional collaboration Communication Presentation skills Adobe Creative Suite AutoCAD (implied) Problem solving Strategic thinking Team mentorship Client liaison Design review

About Charcoalblue

Charcoalblue is the world’s leading multi-national theatre, acoustic, and digital consultancy. Founded in 2004, we have 120+ team members in London, Bristol, Glasgow, New York, Chicago, Melbourne, Seattle, Portland Oregon, Dallas, San Diego, and the Bay Area of California. We work in a distributed way across the globe. Our theatre consultants and acousticians provide guidance and design for a broad range of buildings and events, including theatre, live performance, music, culture, education, workplaces, entertainment, and sport, striving to be the first and best choice for architects and clients who are designing new spaces or refurbishing existing ones. Our unique collaborative approach and relentless attention to detail on theatre consultancy, acoustics and digital design has won us awards & ecstatic reviews from the theatrical and architectural press. We are grounded in theatre practice and performance, and our team are driven by a passion for all types of performing arts projects

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