Director Hotel Design (RS )

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya Investment Company | القدية is developing a landmark destination in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focused on entertainment, culture, and hospitality. The Hospitality Business Unit is responsible for a portfolio of hotel assets central to this vision. We are seeking experienced professionals to ensure these assets meet high standards of design quality, guest experience, and commercial performance.

The Role of Director Hotel Design

As Director Hotel Design, you will lead and manage the design of complex hospitality assets from initial briefs through to delivery. This full-time role involves translating Qiddiya's vision into distinctive, commercially viable, and buildable design outcomes. You will drive design quality, guide key decisions, and ensure alignment with guest experience, asset positioning, and Operator requirements. The role requires overseeing design interfaces and ensuring coordination and compliance across consultants and internal stakeholders to achieve integrated and executable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design management of hospitality assets from early-stage briefs through to delivery, ensuring alignment with guest experience, asset positioning, and Qiddiya's vision and objectives.
• Direct and coordinate design decision-making across projects, guiding key decisions to ensure high-quality outcomes aligned with operational functionality, guest experience requirements, and long-term asset value.
• Lead and manage consultant teams and Operator design coordination, delivering integrated, buildable, operational, and commercially viable design solutions.
• Oversee design development across all project stages, ensuring adherence to scope, deliverables, program, and approval requirements.
• Drive design quality and integrity across architecture, interiors, landscape, and guest touchpoints, including mock-up rooms, materials, FF&E, and OS&E.
• Ensure compliance with Operator standards, technical requirements, authority regulations, and Qiddiya design standards.
• Lead and manage design risks and governance, influencing decisions through senior forums and clear recommendations.
• Champion innovation and continuous design improvement, benchmarking designs against global best-in-class hospitality standards.
• Mentor and develop internal design management teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high standards of delivery.
• Lead the development and refinement of design management processes, systems, standards, and best practices across the hospitality portfolio.
• Drive knowledge sharing across assets and contribute to building institutional capability.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in hotel design and management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex hospitality design projects from concept to delivery.
• Experience in coordinating diverse consultant teams and internal stakeholders.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic environment focused on developing a significant portfolio of hospitality assets.