Associate Brand Manager, Brand Design, LL&P

The Associate Brand Design Manager supports the development and execution of design strategies across IHG’s Lifestyle & Premium brands. This role is ideal for someone who understands the power of design as a business tool and wants to help translate brand thinking into real-world execution. From managing creative briefs and timelines to supporting cross-functional workflows, you’ll play a key part in keeping our brand design efforts organized, on-track, and aligned with our strategic goals. In addition to supporting system-wide initiatives, this role also plays a hands-on part in helping deliver brand strategy at the property level, ensuring that what gets built reflects the intent behind the brand.

Your day to day

• Draft and manage creative briefs that turn brand strategy into clear, actionable direction for internal teams and external design partners
• Coordinate timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder feedback across multiple concurrent projects
• Maintain and evolve brand design toolkits, guidelines, and documentation to support consistent execution across markets
• Assist in the review and delivery of property-level design work, ensuring alignment with brand strategy and standards
• Partner with cross-functional teams (incl. Marketing, Guest Experience, Design & Construction, Development) to support brand implementation
• Support internal team operations, including project tracking, documentation, and vendor coordination
• Help prepare presentation materials that communicate design direction, status updates, or implementation guidance
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in how we scale brand design efficiently while protecting creative integrity
  
  

What We Need From You

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Hospitality, Design, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience
• 2–4 years of experience in project coordination, brand management, or creative operations
• Exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal) with a proven ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable guidance
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; able to manage multiple projects and keep cross-functional teams aligned
• Fluency in brand and design fundamentals; capable of evaluating execution against intent, even if you’re not the one designing it
• Familiarity with creative tools and systems (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Figma or similar platforms)
• A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset, with a genuine interest in design, hospitality, and brand-building
  
  

Location – Atlanta, GA; Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.

The salary range for this role is $46,226.00 to $77,000.00. This role is also eligible for bonus pay (as applicable). We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K, and other benefits to employees.  

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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Important information:

• The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
• No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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