Design Leadership Jobs in Saudi Arabia
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Design Manager (Master planning)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Aecom 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the design function by developing strategies and standards, assessing design concepts, managing projects and budgets, and mentoring a collaborative team. Advise stakeholders and leadership, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and monitor design quality, compliance, performance, and opportunities for improvement.
Global Head of Design
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Alpha Leadership Co. 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Define the firm's global design vision and oversee design quality across major projects, from concept through execution, while promoting sustainable practices and raising the firm's international profile. Represent the design practice in client pitches and competitions, lead and mentor international teams, and advance digital design tools and workflows.
Design Manager (Master planning)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Aecom 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will lead the design function by developing strategic plans, overseeing design operations, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. They are responsible for mentoring the design team, managing budgets, and collaborating across departments to deliver high-quality design solutions.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager serves as the lead designer for all project phases, providing technical guidance and coordinating design approaches, schedules, and budgets. They act as a liaison between clients, suppliers, and contractors while ensuring compliance with industry codes and project specifications.
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Design Manager - Landscape Architecture
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Omrania 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead landscape and public-realm design delivery from concept through detailed and IFC stages, managing teams, schedules, budgets, risks, quality, and interdisciplinary coordination. Oversee technical deliverables and BIM integration, represent the landscape discipline with clients and authorities, and support proposals, tendering, construction, and team development.
Senior Design Manager - Electrical
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead electrical design for hospitality and leisure projects from concept through IFC, covering power distribution, lighting, ELV systems, and smart technologies. Coordinate with architects, MEP teams, and consultants; ensure code compliance and design quality; and support procurement, installation, testing, and commissioning.
Design Manager - Landscape and Irrigation
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Wsp In The Middle East 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Manage landscape and irrigation design consultants and review concepts, public realm strategies, and technical proposals throughout project delivery. Coordinate design interfaces and stakeholders, monitor quality and programme, and support sustainability, water conservation, value engineering, and lifecycle cost optimization.
Senior Design Manager Arch/ID
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead architectural and interior design from concept through construction for large-scale hospitality and leisure projects, managing multidisciplinary teams, consultants, schedules, budgets, and design quality. Coordinate with stakeholders, brand operators, authorities, and construction teams to maintain design intent, meet regulatory and brand requirements, and resolve design issues.
Senior Design Manager Arch/ID
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the architectural and interior design vision for large-scale hospitality projects from concept through construction. This role involves managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring design excellence while adhering to budgets and regulatory standards.
Design Manager (Landscape)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Oversee landscape design from concept through construction support, reviewing consultant submissions and coordinating design integration across disciplines to ensure compliant, sustainable, buildable solutions. Manage design schedules, risks, changes, and value engineering, and provide technical support and site oversight to preserve design intent.
Design Manager (Landscape)
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager oversees all landscape design activities from concept through construction, ensuring alignment with project objectives and regulatory standards. They coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and act as a client representative to ensure high-quality, sustainable, and buildable landscape solutions.
Architect and interior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Fajr Skills Business Solutions 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the design and execution of architectural and interior projects from concept development through to completion. Oversee project timelines, budgets, and quality standards while coordinating with internal teams and external partners.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the design management process across multiple concurrent buildings and infrastructure packages while coordinating multidisciplinary consultants. They are responsible for ensuring design excellence, managing stakeholder expectations, and aligning project deliverables with budget and quality standards.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya | القدية 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. Manage multidisciplinary consultant teams to ensure designs align with masterplans, citywide standards, and technical requirements.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya | القدية 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts and citywide initiatives. Manage multidisciplinary consultant teams to ensure designs align with masterplans, technical standards, and the Public Realm Design Manual.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.