Senior Landscape Design Manager - Public Realm

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeks a Senior Landscape Design Manager - Public Realm to lead landscape architecture, urban public spaces, and city-scale projects.

Responsibilities include coordinating consultants, ensuring sustainability, and aligning with sports federation standards, codes, and master planning.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in landscape architecture, urban design, or related design management.
• Experience leading large-scale landscape and public realm projects from concept through documentation.
• Strong understanding of planting, irrigation, grading, hardscape, and street furniture design.

Responsibilities

• Lead landscape and public realm packages from concept through detailed documentation.
• Coordinate multiple consultants to ensure design language and quality are consistent.
• Review deliverables against briefs, schedules, and design criteria to maintain project standards.
• Oversee integration of landscape design with urban planning and master planning objectives.

Skills

Landscape architecture

Public realm design

Urban design

Sports venue landscape design

Master plan coordination

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

GIS

Adobe Suite

Job description

Senior Landscape Design Manager - Public Realm Job Snapshot Role: Senior Landscape Design Manager - Public Realm Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Architecture and Planning Function: Architecture-Interior Design Experience: Minimum 15 years Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Senior Landscape Design Manager - Public Realm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Architecture and Planning opportunity leading landscape architecture, public realm design, urban integration, and multidisciplinary coordination for major sports and city-scale developments. Parsons Corporation is hiring an experienced landscape design professional to manage complex design packages, guide consultants, maintain compliance with city and sports federation standards, and ensure public spaces support sustainability, connectivity, functionality, and a strong urban identity.

Job Details Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Architecture and Planning Function: Architecture-Interior Design Salary: 35000-50000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context The Senior Landscape Design Manager will guide the planning and design of landscape and public realm environments surrounding major sports assets. The role combines design leadership with urban planning coordination, ensuring planting, hardscape, irrigation, grading, street furniture, pedestrian areas, and open spaces operate as one coherent environment. The position will also connect individual sports developments with the wider city master plan. By coordinating landscape character, movement networks, sustainability objectives, venue requirements, and public realm standards, the manager will help create attractive and functional destinations for athletes, spectators, residents, and visitors.

Key Responsibilities

• Review planting strategies, landscape layouts, irrigation systems, grading plans, hardscape proposals, street furniture, and public open spaces.
• Coordinate multiple landscape packages to maintain consistency in design language, technical standards, and project quality.
• Develop and review scopes of services for landscape architecture and urban design consultants.
• Define clear consultant deliverables, responsibilities, interfaces, milestones, and design expectations.
• Ensure planting plans, irrigation strategies, grading designs, and hardscape documentation are fully coordinated with other disciplines.
• Review landscape packages against approved project briefs, schedules, design criteria, and quality requirements.
• Maintain consistency between concept design, detailed design, tender documentation, and construction-stage information.
• Ensure landscape and public realm designs comply with relevant building codes and city framework requirements.
• Review designs against technical requirements issued by sports stakeholders and governing federations.
• Incorporate venue-specific spatial and operational requirements into surrounding public realm environments.
• Monitor changes in applicable codes, standards, policies, and guidelines and ensure current requirements are reflected in project documentation.
• Coordinate with Master Development and City Planning teams to align sports assets with district and city-wide planning objectives.
• Verify compliance with urban design standards, planning policies, development controls, and public realm frameworks.
• Support integration of sports assets within the wider master plan and surrounding land uses.
• Coordinate landscape design intent with Sport Business Unit development teams and Centre of Excellence Design Directors.
• Resolve multidisciplinary issues affecting landscape, public realm, architecture, engineering, utilities, access, or operations.
• Maintain clear communication of design constraints, dependencies, technical requirements, and outstanding decisions.
• Oversee spatial integration of sports venues with transportation, pedestrian networks, public spaces, and adjacent developments.
• Promote coherent landscape character and identity across related sports assets.
• Improve visitor movement and experience through considered public realm planning and landscape design.
• Address functional requirements for athletes, spectators, operational personnel, and general visitors.
• Integrate active lifestyle, pedestrian, cycling, and sustainable mobility considerations into public realm proposals.
• Guide development of water-efficient planting strategies suitable for Riyadh 's climatic conditions.
• Review irrigation systems with emphasis on water conservation, maintainability, and landscape performance.
• Encourage climate-responsive shading, planting, surface treatments, and material selection.
• Coordinate sustainability requirements with relevant technical teams and specialist consultants.
• Demonstrate compliance with applicable sustainability targets and certification requirements.
• Participate in design reviews, value engineering workshops, technical meetings, and stakeholder presentations.
• Evaluate design alternatives for quality, functionality, sustainability, lifecycle maintenance, and user experience.
• Review consultant performance and identify corrective measures where deliverables fall below required standards.
• Maintain design review records, technical comments, approvals, decisions, and outstanding action registers.
• Support resolution of design changes that affect master planning, public realm continuity, or landscape functionality.
• Provide senior management with updates on landscape design progress, risks, approvals, and major coordination matters.

Ideal Profile

• Qualified or chartered Landscape Architect or Urban Designer.
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in landscape architecture, urban design, or related design management.
• Strong background in large-scale mixed-use, sports, urban development, or city-scale projects.
• Experience managing complex landscape and public realm design packages from concept through detailed documentation.
• Strong understanding of planting, irrigation, grading, hardscape, public open space, and street furniture design.
• Practical knowledge of sports venue environments and public realm requirements surrounding major spectator facilities.
• Understanding of urban planning, district development, city frameworks, and master plan integration.
• Experience reviewing consultant designs for technical compliance, quality, functionality, and coordination.
• Ability to develop and manage detailed consultant scopes of work.
• Strong knowledge of building codes, planning requirements, urban design standards, and relevant sports federation criteria.
• Experience coordinating architecture, engineering, urban planning, sustainability, transportation, and infrastructure disciplines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills when working with developers, consultants, regulators, sports organizations, and internal design teams.
• Middle East project experience is advantageous.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Revit, GIS, Adobe Suite, and relevant landscape design software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability when managing competing planning, technical, and design requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for design reviews, reports, presentations, and stakeholder discussions.

Skills Set

• Landscape architecture
• Public realm design
• Urban design
• Sports venue landscape design
• Sports district planning
• Landscape design management
• Planting design
• Irrigation design
• Grading design
• Hardscape design
• Street furniture
• Public open spaces
• Landscape master planning
• Urban planning
• City framework integration
• Master plan coordination
• Sports federation requirements
• Consultant management
• Design review
• Design quality assurance
• Multidisciplinary coordination
• Landscape specifications
• Public realm standards
• Pedestrian connectivity
• Sustainable mobility
• Water-efficient landscaping
• Climate-responsive design
• Irrigation efficiency
• Sustainable materials
• Shading strategies
• Landscape sustainability
• User experience planning
• Stakeholder coordination
• AutoCAD
• Revit
• GIS
• Adobe Suite
• Design documentation
• Value engineering
• Design compliance
• Technical coordination
• Sports asset integration
• Urban identity
• Landscape character
• Design risk management
• Public realm implementation

Why Join Us

This position offers the opportunity to influence how major sports destinations connect with the surrounding city through landscape architecture, public spaces, pedestrian networks, and sustainable urban design. The role provides substantial design responsibility across high-profile assets while combining creative leadership with technical governance and city-scale planning. For an experienced landscape professional, the assignment offers a strong platform to expand leadership capability while contributing to Riyadh 's rapidly developing sports, leisure, and urban environment. The combination of sports development, public realm design, sustainability, and master planning provides valuable experience for future senior design and urban development leadership roles.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, planning, infrastructure, design management, and technology solutions for major developments worldwide. Its multidisciplinary teams support complex urban, sports, transportation, and infrastructure programs by integrating architecture, landscape design, engineering, sustainability, and master planning into coordinated project delivery.