Role summary
Lead the creative architectural design agenda across the hospitality portfolio, defining design principles and shaping hotel concepts from development brief to endorsed design direction, while overseeing consultants and ensuring design integrity, technical compliance and performance are maintained through delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural definition of hotel concepts from development brief to approved design direction, curating distinctive, emotive and commercially viable responses aligned with Qiddiya, district and Operator visions
- Articulate and position architectural design proposals to secure alignment and timely outcomes through key governance stages
- Define architectural design principles, typologies and performance benchmarks for each hotel tier, establishing consistent and validated design baselines across the portfolio
- Oversee consultant briefing and scope definition, validating architectural scope and specialist inputs to ensure alignment with development briefs, asset positioning, Operator requirements and governance approvals
- Oversee visualisation and design communication including CGI strategy, ensuring concepts are clearly articulated and aligned with design narratives and stakeholder expectations
- Lead and govern architecture and specialist consultants, driving strategic approaches on appointment, scope and deliverables and overseeing performance, quality and creative alignment
- Provide functional governance to project-embedded design management teams, reviewing and endorsing architectural deliverables to ensure approved design intent is maintained through delivery
- Lead technical input to development briefs, shaping planning efficiency, gross-to-net ratios, spatial configuration and system integration for hospitality assets
- Drive integrated coordination across architecture, interiors, landscape and technical disciplines, resolving interfaces and ensuring cohesive design outcomes
- Lead structured review of design submissions across key milestones, providing clear feedback and endorsement to support design progression
- Provide creative and technical design oversight through design and construction, resolving interfaces and deviations to maintain design quality and intent
- Guide value engineering and design optimisation, balancing design intent, guest experience and asset performance
- Champion sustainability and climate-responsive design, embedding ESG and Vision 2030 priorities
- Mentor teams and drive continuous improvement of design processes, standards and best practices
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related discipline
- Professional membership or recognised certification preferred such as RIBA, AIA, RICS or equivalent
Requirements
- Strong architectural design literacy, judgement and technical review capability across all project stages
- Fluent understanding of hospitality planning areas, efficiencies and building systems including structural, MEP integration
- Ability to manage consultants and influence design outcomes
- Commercial awareness of cost and programme impacts
- Strong stakeholder management skills, articulating design intent to secure alignment and drive decision-making
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments, managing ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Proficiency in design management and coordination tools such as Revit, BIM, CDE platforms, Aconex, Autodesk Construction Cloud
Education
Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related discipline
Experience
15+ years of experience in architectural design with strong hospitality focus across luxury and mixed-tier projects
Skills
- Architectural design literacy
- Technical review capability
- Hospitality planning understanding
- Building systems knowledge
- Consultant management
- Design outcome influence
- Commercial cost awareness
- Programme awareness
- Stakeholder management
- Design intent articulation
- Fast-paced environment operation
- Ambiguity management
- Priority shifting management
- Revit
- BIM
- CDE platforms
- Aconex
- Autodesk Construction Cloud
Education · Experience · Type
Bachelor'sRequires 15+ yearsSalary not stated