Summary
Qiddiya Investment Company is hiring a Design Project Management Director for its Urban Core mixed-use precinct portfolio in Riyadh. The role leads end-to-end design management across public spaces, retail, food and beverage, offices, and other destination-led assets, coordinating with development, delivery, consultants, authorities, operators, and stakeholders. The director will manage multiple projects and multidisciplinary teams from concept through construction and handover while maintaining design quality, programme commitments, and commercial and operational objectives. Applicants need 15 or more years of relevant experience, including at least 7 years in leadership, and client-side experience on large-scale mixed-use developments; a relevant bachelor's degree is required and a master's degree or professional accreditation is preferred.
The posting
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The Design Project Management Director will lead the planning, management, coordination, and delivery of design across a portfolio of mixed-use precinct developments within the Urban Core business. The role will oversee the end-to-end design management process for public realm, public spaces, retail, food & beverage, commercial office, and destination-led mixed-use assets.
Working on the client side, the successful candidate will act as the key interface between development, asset management, project delivery, design consultants, authorities, operators, and stakeholders to ensure the design vision is successfully translated into high-quality, commercially viable, and operationally effective built environments.
This role requires a strategic leader capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously, driving design excellence, maintaining programme commitments, and ensuring seamless integration across architectural, landscape, infrastructure, public realm, placemaking, and commercial development disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
- Design Leadership
- Project & Programme Management
- Mixed-Use Development Integration
- Stakeholder Management
- Commercial & Development Support
- Quality & Compliance
- Team Leadership
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
- Master's Degree preferred.
- Professional accreditation preferred (RIBA, AIA, AICP, ASLA, PMP, MRICS, CEng or equivalent).
Experience
- 15+ years of relevant experience in design management & project management
- Minimum 7 years in a leadership role managing large-scale mixed-use developments.
- Proven client-side experience on complex mixed-use, urban regeneration, masterplan, or destination development projects.
- Strong experience overseeing public realm and placemaking-focused developments.
- Demonstrated success managing international multidisciplinary consultant teams.
- Experience delivering projects throughout the full development lifecycle from concept design through construction and handover.
- Middle East experience strongly preferred.
- Experience within large-scale masterplanned communities, giga-projects, mixed-use districts, or city-scale developments highly desirable.