Midweight Interior Designer | Hospitality Design Studio
Vacancy taken to accepted offer in just 12 days.
A London-based interior design studio approached Modus Careers to support the search for a Midweight Interior Designer to join its growing team.
The studio works across hospitality and F&B, with sustainability and responsible design sitting at the heart of its approach. Alongside strong creative ability, they needed someone who could demonstrate genuine hospitality experience, confidently work across both concept and delivery and thrive within a small, collaborative studio environment.
It was a specific brief, but also an incredibly attractive opportunity. The studio offered a highly flexible working model, a nine-day fortnight and the opportunity to work on design-led hospitality projects within a business taking a genuinely progressive approach to both design and working culture.
The Search
Rather than relying solely on applications, I combined targeted headhunting with an extensive search of the hospitality interiors market.
The focus was on designers with proven F&B and hospitality experience who could demonstrate more than a strong portfolio. They needed the technical capability to deliver projects, confidence communicating their ideas and an understanding of how thoughtful, sustainable design decisions translate into real hospitality environments.
Interest in the opportunity was extremely strong, which meant the challenge quickly became less about generating candidates and more about identifying the right ones.
Candidates were screened against the brief before a focused shortlist was presented to the client.
The Placement
One candidate stood out as an excellent match.
She brought extensive interior design experience, a strong background across hospitality and F&B projects and the balance of creative and technical capability the studio was looking for.
Following an initial interview and subsequent in-person meeting with the studio’s founders, both sides were keen to move forward.
An offer was made, presented and verbally accepted just 12 days after I first took the vacancy.
For a role requiring a relatively specific combination of sector experience, technical ability and cultural alignment, speed did not come at the expense of fit.
The result was a targeted recruitment process that moved from initial brief to accepted offer in less than two weeks, giving the studio the designer it needed without allowing the recruitment process to become a distraction from running and growing the business.
