Jen Ambrose
Jen Ambrose is an Associate Principal / Designer at Gravity Architecture and Design, where she brings a hospitality-driven lens to the design of restaurants, entertainment, and experiential environments. With a career spanning architecture, interiors, branding, and immersive design, she brings a unique ability to translate story, identity, and guest experience into memorable spaces that balance creativity, function, and operational intelligence.
Her design journey began at age 16, when two houses were built from her own architectural drawings, a formative experience that sparked her lifelong passion for creating spaces. Her career took flight at Walt Disney Imagineering, where she developed a foundation in conceptual storytelling and immersive design, learning how environments can engage both the imagination and the senses.
She later joined Aumiller Youngquist, where she developed concepts and design experiences across restaurant, hotel, and entertainment projects. Her work focused on turning big ideas into distinctive environments, exploring how architecture, interiors, branding, and storytelling could come together to create places with a strong sense of identity. She went on to found her own creative studio, O’Sketch, focusing on concept development, creative direction, and brand-driven ideas for hospitality and lifestyle clients. As Director of Interiors at Gettys Group, she led design teams across a diverse portfolio of hotel and hospitality projects, gaining experience with a wide range of hotel brands, property types, and guest experiences.
As a Project Designer at Aria Group, Jen focused extensively on restaurant and hospitality design, developing creative concepts and distinctive environments for dining, entertainment, and hospitality experiences. Her work further shaped her passion for restaurants as places where architecture, food, brand, culture, and social experience come together.
Jen finds inspiration well beyond the studio through travel, sketching, painting, and a lifelong love of sports. She rarely travels without a sketchbook, using drawing as a way to slow down and observe the places she visits. These days, much of her competitive energy goes toward tennis, balanced by cheering on her daughters from the sidelines of their many sports and activities. She believes the best ideas often come from simply being curious, paying attention, and occasionally getting a little lost along the way!
Jen approaches every project through a storyteller’s lens, looking for the simple idea or sketch that can become the foundation for an entire experience. She combines creative vision, architectural thinking, and a deep understanding of hospitality to create spaces that feel distinctive, connect with people, elevate brands, and leave a lasting impression.