Senior Design Manager - Luxury Developments (Hybrid)

Mace; Riyadh; Hybrid; SAR 446,000 - 714,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace is seeking a Senior Design Manager in Riyadh to lead design management across multiple buildings and infrastructure packages for a prestigious private estate project.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary consultants from concept through construction, ensuring buildability, compliance, and alignment with programme and budget, while mentoring junior team members and driving design quality on high-value developments in the Middle East.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in architecture or related discipline.
• Extensive experience in design management within PMC or consultancy environments.
• Experience delivering high-end residential, hospitality, or landmark developments.
• Experience managing international design consultants.
• Professional membership (RIBA, CIOB, PMI, ICE, IStructE, or equivalent) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design management process across multiple concurrent buildings and infrastructure packages.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design consultants through concept to construction stages.
• Ensure designs are fully coordinated, buildable, and compliant with requirements.
• Review proposals to optimise quality, programme, and value.
• Facilitate design workshops, technical reviews, and stakeholder meetings.
• Monitor design progress against deliverables and milestones.
• Manage design risks, interfaces, and change control.
• Support procurement activities including consultant and contractor evaluations.
• Provide mentorship to junior design management team members.

Skills

Design management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Multidisciplinary coordination

Communication skills

Education

Architecture degree

Job description

Mace is seeking a Senior Design Manager in Riyadh to lead design management across multiple buildings and infrastructure packages for a prestigious private estate project.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary consultants from concept through construction, ensuring buildability, compliance, and alignment with programme and budget, while mentoring junior team members and driving design quality on high-value developments in the Middle East.