Vice President, Global Design Strategy

JOB SUMMARY

The Vice President Global Design Strategies is responsible for defining the physical manifestation of Marriotts brands building the global design systems that enable hotels around the world to deliver distinctive high-quality and consistently executed experiences at scale.

This leader is responsible for creating design strategies standards and scalable platforms that shape how Marriotts brands come to life in the built environment across the world. They will translate brand vision into globally consistent insight-driven design systems that continents can localize and execute with clarity speed and precision.

At the intersection of brand architecture interiors and guest experience the Vice President will contribute to the development and evolution of global brand business blueprints ensuring that each brand is expressed through compelling cohesive physical environments that are both differentiated and operationally viable for associates and owners.

A critical dimension of this role is reimagining how design gets done building streamlined processes and tools that reduce complexity accelerating speed to market and enable more efficient development and execution globally. This leader will create conditions for teams to move faster while maintaining design integrity and brand consistency.

The role plays a pivotal part in advancing Marriotts ambition to deliver the industrys most distinctive and scalable design solutions creating high-impact design frameworks and processes that enable faster development stronger brand expression and consistent quality across markets.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required
4-year degree from an accredited university in architecture design or related discipline
12 years of progressive leadership experience in global design strategy physical environment design or brand-led product development
Demonstrated success defining and delivering scalable design systems standards and frameworks that enable consistent execution across diverse markets
Provide ability to lead large cross-functional initiatives translating brand vision into practical implementable design solutions at scale
Experience building or transforming design processes tools or operating models to simplify complexity accelerate speed-to-market and improve execution quality
Strong leadership capability with experience developing high-performing teams and influencing senior executives and enterprise stakeholders

Preferred
Experience operating in a global role building enterprise capabilities that are adopted and executed across regions or business units
Deep expertise in hospitality or mixed-use design including guestroom public spaces and F&B environments with a strong understanding of owner economics and development considerations
Track record of designing or implementing modular adaptable design standards that balance global consistency with local flexibility
Experience leveraging customer insights performance data and market intelligence to inform design decisions and continuously refine global frameworks
Familiarity with digital tools platforms or systems that enable design standardization collaboration and faster development cycles
Masters degree in architecture design business or related field

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Global Design Strategy
Define and evolve Marriotts global physical design strategy creating enterprise-level frameworks that guide how brands are expressed through architecture interiors and the built environment
Translate consumer insights market trends and brand positioning into scalable design direction concepts and standards that can be consistently applied across markets
Establish and embed core brand design principles and systems that ensure clarity differentiation and consistency while enabling flexibility for local execution
Ensure all design strategies are build for scalability owner feasibility and speed-to-market balancing creativity with operational practicality

Product Development & Brand Blueprint Ownership
Contribute to the development and evolution of global brand business blueprints as enterprise platforms integrating physical design (guestroom public spaces F&B) service design and operational standards into cohesive actionable systems
Create streamlined modular design standards and toolkits that enable continents to efficiently localize and execute while maintaining brand integrity
Ensure design intent is clearly articulated and easily transferable reducing complexity and increasing consistency across global properties
Partner with development owners and external design partners to ensure design frameworks are practical implementable and deliver value at scale

Design Operations Process Innovation & Speed Enablement
Reimagine and lead how design is delivered by building simplified scalable processes tools and governance models that accelerate speed and reduce friction across the development lifecycle
Identify and eliminate inefficiencies in design and approval processes enabling faster decision-making and more efficient global execution
Develop and embed repeatable design workflows playbooks and digital tools that improve quality consistency and time-to-market
Balance speed with design integrity ensuring streamlined processes do not compromise brand expression or guest experience
Partner across disciplines to align design processes with development operations and digital workflows creating a more integrated and agile system

Global Adaptation & Market Relevance
Design global standards and systems that are inherently flexible and adaptable enabling continents to respond to local market cultural and regulatory requirements
Provide clear guardrails that empower regions to localize effectively while maintaining brand consistency
Enable continents through well-defined frameworks and toolkits reducing rework and increasing speed and quality of execution globally
Balance global consistency with local relevance to optimize guest experience owner outcomes and market performance

Team Leadership & Capability Building
Build lead and develop a high-performance Center-based design strategy and design operations team focused on enterprise impact
Foster a culture of innovation simplification and continuous improvement with a strong emphasis on scalability and speed
Strengthen enterprise capabilities by development talent tools and ways of working that elevate how Marriott designs and delivers physical environments globally
Partner closely with continent teams to ensure strong adoption of global frameworks and continuous feedback loops to improve them over time

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