Summary
Parsons is seeking a Design Manager to lead multidisciplinary design coordination and design reviews across buildings, infrastructure, landscape, and master-planning projects. The role oversees design from concept through detailed design and IFC, coordinates consultants and review submissions, and supports programme tracking, reporting, and quality control. The position is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in architecture or a related discipline and at least 10 years of relevant experience; Middle East consultancy experience is preferred.
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Job Description:
We are seeking a Design Manager to lead and manage the coordination of multi-disciplinary design and design-review projects across a range of sectors including buildings, infrastructure, landscape, and master planning.
This role sits on the consultant side and focuses on design governance, technical integration, authority compliance, and stakeholder.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and manage the coordination of multi-disciplinary design teams, ensuring alignment across architectural, structural, MEP, infrastructure, and specialist disciplines
- Oversee design development and design review activities from concept through detailed design and IFC.
- Ensure consistency with the client brief, design intent, project objectives, and applicable regulations
- Coordinate design submissions, responses to comments, and revisions arising from client, authority, and third-party reviews
- Act as the central point of contact for design interfaces and technical integration
- Manage and coordinate sub-consultants, ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables aligned with scope and programme
- Chair design coordination meetings and workshops, issuing clear actions and follow-ups
- Support project management functions including programme tracking, progress reporting, and risk identification
- Ensure design documentation meets consultancy QA/QC procedures and project quality requirements
- Maintain structured records of design decisions, approvals, and technical correspondence
What Required Skills You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or related discipline.
- Minimum 10 years’ professional experience in design coordination, design management, or similar roles
- Proven experience working within an engineering or multidisciplinary consultancy environment
- Strong understanding of design development workflows and approval processes
- Experience coordinating projects in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East is strongly preferred
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring
- Strong ability to interpret and coordinate technical design information across disciplines
- Knowledge of local authority requirements, codes, and regulatory frameworks
- Experience managing complex design interfaces and resolving coordination issues
- Strong planning, reporting, and document control skills
- Comfortable working in structured, programme-driven consultancy environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Strong leadership and coordination capability
- Detail-oriented with a proactive approach to problem solving
- Able to manage multiple workstreams and priorities under tight deadlines
Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
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