Senior Manager - Hospitality Design

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seeks a Senior Manager for Hospitality Design to oversee design management from briefing to delivery across hospitality assets. You will coordinate architecture, interiors, landscape, FF&E, OS&E, and governance while aligning with guest experience and operator requirements.

The role demands leadership of multidisciplinary teams, strong coordination with hotel operators, and rigorous attention to buildable, compliant design outcomes for large-scale developments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, or a related discipline.
• Professional membership or certification such as RIBA, AIA, RICS, or equivalent is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in design management, architecture, or hospitality design delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate design development for hospitality assets from briefs through concept, design development, approvals, construction coordination, and delivery.
• Ensure design outputs align with guest experience goals, asset positioning, and operator requirements.
• Lead, manage, and coordinate consultant teams, hotel operator interfaces, internal stakeholders, and design inputs.
• Support delivery of integrated, compliant, buildable, operationally practical, high-quality design solutions.
• Monitor design progress across project stages, ensuring deliverables, review cycles, approvals, and timelines are achieved.

Skills

Hospitality design mgmt

Hotel design coordination

Stakeholder mgmt

Design governance

Consultant mgmt

Brand standards

Education

Bachelor’s in Architecture

Bachelor’s in Interior Design

Tools

Aconex

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Job description

Senior Manager - Hospitality Design in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Hospitality opportunity with Parsons Corporation for an experienced design management professional who can coordinate hospitality asset design from initial briefing through delivery. The role supports guest experience, asset positioning, operator requirements, architecture, interiors, landscape, mock‑up rooms, FF&E, OS&E, design governance, consultant coordination, stakeholder alignment, and buildable design outcomes across complex hospitality and large‑scale development environments.

Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Salary: 55000-80000. Gender: Any. Candidate Nationality: Any. Full-time Position.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate design development for hospitality assets from early-stage briefs through concept, design development, approvals, construction coordination, and delivery.
• Ensure design outputs align with guest experience goals, asset positioning, operator requirements, project objectives, and the client's vision.
• Lead, manage, and coordinate consultant teams, hotel operator interfaces, internal stakeholders, and design inputs.
• Support delivery of integrated, compliant, buildable, operationally practical, and high-quality design solutions.
• Monitor design progress across project stages, ensuring deliverables, review cycles, approvals, decisions, and timelines are achieved.
• Drive design quality and integrity across architecture, interiors, landscape, guest touchpoints, public areas, back‑of‑house areas, and branded hospitality spaces.
• Review and coordinate design elements including mock‑up rooms, materials, finishes, FF&E, OS&E, layouts, specifications, and design presentations.
• Guide design decision‑making by evaluating options against operational requirements, technical standards, guest experience expectations, commercial objectives, and buildability.
• Coordinate across stakeholders to resolve design interfaces, design risks, technical gaps, review comments, and coordination issues.
• Ensure design packages comply with project briefs, operator standards, technical requirements, authority regulations, and applicable design standards.
• Support design governance and reporting through presentations, design review materials, meeting outputs, action trackers, and communication of design intent.
• Benchmark design solutions against global best‑in‑class hospitality standards and support innovation where it improves guest experience, quality, efficiency, or asset value.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary inputs across architecture, interior design, landscape, engineering, commercial, procurement, operations, and construction teams.
• Support resolution of operator comments, authority requirements, consultant queries, design conflicts, and construction‑stage design coordination matters.
• Maintain strong focus on guest experience, functionality, service flow, accessibility, maintainability, durability, and brand alignment.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of design management standards, review processes, documentation systems, and project delivery practices.
• Use design management tools and platforms to support document control, review workflows, coordination tracking, and issue resolution.
• Prepare clear design reports, coordination notes, review summaries, presentation materials, and management updates.
• Maintain organized records of design decisions, approvals, risks, interfaces, comments, and stakeholder communications.
• Support knowledge sharing across hospitality assets and help strengthen internal design management capability.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design, or a related discipline.
• Professional membership or recognized certification such as RIBA, AIA, RICS, or equivalent is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in design management, architecture, interior design, or hospitality design delivery.
• Strong design management capability across multiple design stages and complex stakeholder environments.
• Experience delivering high‑quality design outcomes for hospitality, luxury, mixed‑use, hotel, resort, or complex development projects.
• Experience working with hotel operators, brand standards, operator technical requirements, and guest experience expectations.
• Experience managing consultants and multidisciplinary design teams across complex projects.
• Good design judgment with the ability to contribute to design direction and influence design decisions.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance quality, cost, programme, buildability, lifecycle value, and operational performance.
• Experience in Saudi Arabia, GCC, or similar large‑scale development environments is preferred.
• Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills across hotel operators, consultants, contractors, suppliers, delivery partners, project management consultants, and government authorities.
• Clear communication skills with strong presentation ability and confidence in explaining design intent, risks, issues, and recommendations.
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced environments with ambiguity, shifting priorities, complex approvals, and demanding timelines.
• Proficient in design management tools such as Aconex, Autodesk Construction Cloud, or equivalent platforms.
• Detail‑focused, collaborative, organized, and able to maintain design quality across multiple workstreams.

Key Skills

• Hospitality design management
• Hotel design coordination
• Luxury hospitality
• Mixed‑use development
• Architecture
• Interior design
• Landscape coordination
• Guest experience
• Asset positioning
• Operator standards
• Brand standards
• Design development
• Concept design
• Technical design
• Design coordination
• Consultant management
• Operator coordination
• Stakeholder management
• Design reviews
• Design governance
• Design reporting
• Design presentations
• Design decision support
• Mock‑up rooms
• Material selection
• FF&E
• OS&E
• Buildability
• Commercial awareness
• Design quality
• Design integrity
• Authority compliance
• Technical requirements
• Design risk management
• Interface coordination
• Hospitality standards
• Design benchmarking
• Aconex
• Autodesk Construction Cloud
• Project delivery practices
• Design management processes
• Contractor coordination
• Supplier coordination
• PMCM coordination