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Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will manage and coordinate the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across assigned infrastructure projects to ensure compliance with standards and budgets. They will also facilitate communication between consultants, stakeholders, and delivery teams to resolve technical queries and ensure integrated project outcomes.
Design Manager - Infrastructure (Saudi National)
🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will coordinate multi-disciplinary design delivery across infrastructure projects to ensure compliance with standards, budgets, and schedules. They will also manage design consultants, monitor submissions for quality, and facilitate the resolution of technical queries and cross-disciplinary clashes.
Design Manager – Hospitality
🇸🇦 Abha, 'Asir Province, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Abha, 'Asir Province, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will lead the architectural and interior design process for luxury hospitality projects, acting as the primary liaison between clients, consultants, and contractors. They are responsible for ensuring design excellence, project integration, and adherence to luxury standards throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Design Manager – Hospitality
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will lead the architectural and interior design process for luxury hospitality projects, acting as the primary liaison between clients, consultants, and contractors. They are responsible for ensuring design excellence, managing project budgets and timelines, and maintaining rigorous quality control throughout the project lifecycle.
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Design Manager
🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Provide overall managerial and technical leadership for major engineering disciplines on large-scale, complex programs. Oversee engineering delivery, resource planning, quality assurance, and business development initiatives to ensure project success.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Aecom 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the design function in Riyadh by developing comprehensive design strategies and overseeing large-scale projects and brand development. Mentor a team of designers while collaborating with cross-functional departments to align design solutions with business objectives.
Design Manager (Stadiums)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the implementation of design management systems and provide strategic leadership to design teams for major stadium projects in Riyadh. Oversee safe, sustainable design delivery while ensuring compliance with statutory and contractual requirements.
Architectural Design Manager
🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Lead the planning, design, and technical delivery of complex architectural projects across commercial, infrastructure, and transportation sectors. Manage the full project lifecycle from concept through construction while ensuring compliance with safety standards and client requirements.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 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 will also mentor team members and collaborate across departments to deliver high-quality design solutions that meet customer expectations.
Senior Design Manager (Shopping Malls)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Oversee the end-to-end design process for a large-scale shopping mall development, ensuring the vision is translated into a buildable and commercially viable solution. Manage multidisciplinary consultants and coordinate across architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines to meet project milestones.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Jasara Program Management Company 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will manage architectural design projects, ensuring adherence to scope and schedule while leading quality assurance protocols. They will oversee a team of architects and designers, facilitating communication among stakeholders and promoting safety in design practices.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead strategic, technical, and managerial oversight for multi-disciplinary design delivery across major programs and infrastructure portfolios. They will ensure design governance and integrated delivery from planning through to construction documentation.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager provides strategic and technical leadership for multi-disciplinary design across major infrastructure programs and asset portfolios. They are accountable for design governance, technical assurance, and managing the end-to-end delivery from strategic planning to construction documentation.
Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary design activities across project stages to ensure compliance with briefs, budgets, and schedules. Lead the resolution of technical queries, design clashes, and interface issues while maintaining design management systems.
Senior Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary design team to deliver major mixed-use and infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia. Oversee the entire design process from concept to construction, ensuring compliance with technical standards, budgets, and safety requirements.
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.