General Manager - Los Angeles Area Luxury Hotel

Luxury Hotel General Manager

An exciting opportunity awaits an accomplished hospitality leader to open and lead a newly reimagined luxury hotel in the Los Angeles, CA area. This landmark propertycurrently undergoing a complete transformationwill redefine modern luxury and sophistication in one of the city's most dynamic neighborhoods. Scheduled to reopen in mid-2026, the hotel will feature approximately 350-400 guest rooms and suites, a vibrant lobby bar, signature three-meal restaurant, pool, bar, and lounge offering panoramic city views.

This role offers a rare opportunity to lead a world-class opening, partner closely with a highly engaged ownership group, and shape the guest experience from the ground up. The ideal candidate will bring proven expertise in luxury operations, team culture development, and stakeholder engagementbalancing strategic vision with hands-on leadership in a fast-paced, highly visible environment.

Key Responsibilities :

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for all aspects of the hotel's pre-opening, opening, and stabilization phases.
• Partner daily with ownership representatives, ensuring alignment on performance objectives, financial results, and brand standards.
• Build and mentor a best-in-class opening team of approximately 350400 team members, fostering a culture of excellence, inclusion, and empowerment.
• Oversee all hotel operations, including Rooms, Food & Beverage, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Engineering, and Human Resources.
• Lead pre-opening activities such as P&L development, departmental planning, vendor selection, recruitment, and SOP implementation.
• Ensure the successful launch and positioning of the property within the luxury segmentachieving operational excellence, superior guest satisfaction, and financial success.
• Drive collaboration across the Davidson Hospitality platform and with ownership to ensure consistent communication, reporting, and execution.
• Serve as the public face and brand ambassador for the hotel, establishing strong relationships with community, media, and key business partners.

Qualifications :

Benefits :

Davidson Hospitality Group is an award-winning, full-service hospitality management company overseeing hotels, restaurants, dining and entertainment venues across the US. A trusted partner and preferred operator for Hilton, Hyatt, Kimpton, Marriott, and Margaritaville, Davidson offers a unique entrepreneurial management style and owners' mentality that provides the individualized personal service of a small company, enhanced by the breadth and depth of skill and experience of a larger company. In keeping with the company's heritage of delivering value, Davidson is comprised of four highly specialized operating verticals : Davidson Hotels, Pivot, Davidson Resorts and Davidson Restaurant Group.

In keeping with the company's heritage of delivering value to its owners and team members, Davidson offers a rich benefit program with a variety of benefits designed to enrich the lives and well-being of our team members and their families.

Salary Range : USD $250,000.00 - USD $300,000.00 / Yr.