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Design Manager (9-12 Month Mat Cover

Spacemade 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Onsite $40,000 - $45,000 Contract Manager

Lead design for new workspace sites from feasibility and space planning through launch, ensuring projects meet design standards, schedules, and budgets. Coordinate external design and construction teams, manage FF&E procurement and installation, review technical packages, and support existing locations with handovers and improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design for new workspace sites from feasibility and space planning through launch, ensuring projects meet design standards, schedules, and budgets. Coordinate external design and construction teams, manage FF&E procurement and installation, review technical packages, and support existing locations with handovers and improvements.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a background in commercial workplace fit-outs, hospitality interiors, flexible workspaces, or architectural practice, supported by an interior design or architectural qualification or background. They should be proficient in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and SketchUp or similar software, with strong knowledge of UK Building Regulations, space planning, construction detailing, FF&E, and supplier management.

Benefits

  • Quarterly Team Socials
  • Dog-Friendly Office
  • Half-Day Off on Your Birthday
  • Mental Health Personal Day
  • One Paid Charity Day per Year
  • Competitive Salary and Bonus Scheme
  • 25 Days of Annual Leave, Excluding Bank Holidays
  • £50 Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
  • Cycle-to-Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Key Skills

AutoCAD Adobe Creative Suite SketchUp UK Building Regulations Space planning Construction detailing FF&E procurement Supplier management Interior design Architectural design Project coordination Budget management Timeline management Stakeholder communication Team leadership Design documentation Problem solving Creative thinking Collaboration with construction teams Quality control

About Spacemade

Spacemade exists to revive the workspace as a hub for meaningful connections and new opportunities. We believe that real-world connections shape our personal and professional journeys in ways unmatched by digital networks and interfaces. This is why we are on a mission to cultivate 1,000,000 real-world social connections within our spaces. We have a bold vision: A new world of work where people flourish in the company of others, and each connection amplifies collective potential. As the UK’s fastest-growing flexible workspace operator, Spacemade delivers bespoke design, hospitality and value to workers, businesses and property owners.

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