Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WIP Lighting designs and manufactures custom lighting for luxury hotels, high-end restaurants, and distinctive interior environments worldwide. The Design Project Manager leads custom lighting projects from concept through delivery, coordinating clients, design and technical teams, vendors, and manufacturing partners while managing schedules, approvals, quality, and communication.
Responsibilities
- Manage custom lighting projects from design development through production and delivery
- Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, architects, interior designers, and other project stakeholders
- Translate creative concepts and client expectations into clear project requirements
- Develop and maintain project schedules, priorities, approval milestones, and action lists
- Coordinate drawings, specifications, finishes, materials, samples, and technical submissions
- Review project information for accuracy, completeness, and consistency with the design intent
- Lead client meetings and communicate progress, decisions, risks, and next steps clearly
- Coordinate with internal designers, engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, and logistics partners
- Track client feedback and ensure that revisions and approvals are properly documented
- Anticipate potential problems and resolve them before they affect quality, budget, or schedule
- Help ensure that every finished product meets the aesthetic and quality standards expected in luxury hospitality environments
- Keep multiple projects moving forward without allowing important details to get lost
Skills
- You have a professional background in architecture, interior design, lighting design, product design, industrial design, or a related field
- You understand design deeply but are more energized by organizing, coordinating, and leading the process
- You have excellent visual judgment and a refined sense of proportion, material, color, and finish
- You are exceptionally organized and comfortable managing many details across multiple projects
- You communicate clearly, professionally, and confidently with clients
- You are comfortable leading meetings, presenting information, and navigating difficult conversations
- You take ownership of projects and follow through without needing constant direction
- You can balance aesthetic goals with technical, budget, production, and schedule requirements
- You are proactive, calm under pressure, and skilled at solving problems
- You have strong written and spoken English
- You are comfortable working with clients and project teams across different countries and time zones
- Luxury hospitality, including hotels and restaurants
- Custom lighting, furniture, millwork, metalwork, or decorative products
- Architectural specifications and construction documents
- Shop drawings, submittals, samples, and approval processes
- Custom manufacturing or fabrication
- Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, or other design software
- Project-management and collaboration tools
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