Design Leadership Jobs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Confidential 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the complete design process and multidisciplinary teams for high-profile real estate developments in Saudi Arabia. Oversee projects from concept through construction, ensuring quality, budget adherence, and coordination with government authorities.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Zawaya Albina Engineering Consultancy 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the multidisciplinary design process from concept through construction documentation while coordinating between architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines. Manage design teams, external consultants, and ensure compliance with the Saudi Building Code and authority regulations.
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.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Management Recruitment Group (mrg) 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the full design lifecycle for a diverse real estate portfolio, overseeing multidisciplinary teams and external consultants from concept to completion. Manage authority approvals, coordinate with internal departments, and ensure projects meet budget, quality, and timeline objectives.
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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 Landscape
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Oversee and manage all landscape design activities from concept to construction, ensuring alignment with client requirements and regulatory standards. Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate landscape solutions and provide technical governance over consultant submissions.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead and manage design resources and daily operations for a major mixed-use development program in Saudi Arabia. Responsible for delivering business plans, managing KPIs, and driving improvements in delivery processes and net zero carbon objectives.
Design Manager | Fitout
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Alec Fitout 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
As a Design Manager, you will oversee the development and coordination of interior fit-out design packages, ensuring alignment with project objectives. You will lead multidisciplinary teams and manage design coordination to deliver high-quality interior environments.
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.
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.
Senior Design Manager – Interior Design
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Buro Happold 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the interior design management process across various design stages and manage coordination with consultants and teams. Ensure successful project execution and delivery while maintaining luxury standards and client interface.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
People Group Arabia 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the fit-out design management process from IFC through construction, ensuring design intent is translated into a high-quality built asset. They will manage design coordination among various stakeholders and drive resolution of technical issues to support construction progress.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Buro Happold 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead architectural design management for a luxury project in Riyadh, ensuring successful design execution and consultant coordination. Oversee technical excellence and manage design risks throughout the design lifecycle.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will act as the primary interface with FIFA and the World Cup Authority, leading engagements and ensuring compliance with FIFA requirements. They will oversee technical integration and provide strategic guidance on FIFA regulations and compliance pathways.
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.