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You will report to a project architect (lead) but collaborate with the entire design team, including but not limited to interior designers, CGI artists, the MEP team, structural engineers, the FF&E procurement team, and client representatives.\r\nThis role will work more with early design stages. Personal engagement in RIBA 1-3 will be around 75%, RIBA 4-5 supervision and advisory - up to 25%.\r\nWe expect you to be fluent in English and proficient in Revit, AutoCAD, and SketchUp, or other sketch-oriented presentation software like Rhino, Lumion, or Enscape. Knowledge of CGI basics and Navisworks is also required.\r\nTo succeed in this role, you should have excellent communication and presentation skills, be punctual, detail-oriented, intelligent, and motivated to deliver results.\r\nThis is a full time day job with expected involvement up to 40 hours a week\r\nThis is a fully remote job\r\nWe work normal central European time zone (CET) working hours 9-17 or 10-18, we expect you to participate in daily team's meetings\r\nUtopia does not provide visa sponsorship and/or relocation package for this position\r\nResponsibilities\r\nOwn the full process from inception, concept development, through to detailed design and handover.\r\nEnsure design integrity aligns with brand identity and delivers exceptional user experiences across all assets.\r\nGuide a team of interior designers, and 3D artists through every stage of project development.\r\nBring ground breaking and experiential ideas in materials, lighting, layout, and spatial storytelling.\r\nCreate distinctive design languages for various properties while preserving brand DNA.\r\nWork closely with the Head of Design and key client representatives.\r\nEnsure alignment with RIBA stages, oversee site surveys, and facilitate technical design through to construction.\r\nLiaise effectively with external consultants, suppliers, and contractors.\r\nComfortable managing high-end residential and hospitality projects, including F&B concepts.\r\nWork on a variety of high-end hospitality projects as a design architect\r\nConduct feasibility studies, volumetric proposals, area calculations, and land plot analyses as part of the pre-design stage of projects\r\nInterpret the design brief and collaborate with client representatives to achieve the best results\r\nPerform design research and create presentations, mood boards, and reference materials\r\nGenerate architectural ideas and sketches, and conduct research on references and mood boards\r\nExecute concept design development, including but not limited to detailed massing proposals and volumetric studies. 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