Senior Director Interior Design Hospitality HS📣 إعلان

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya Investment Company is developing a landmark destination in the Kingdom, focused on redefining entertainment, culture, and hospitality. The Hospitality Business Unit is responsible for developing a portfolio of hotel assets central to this vision. As these assets progress, the company seeks experienced professionals to ensure delivery to the highest standards of design quality, guest experience, and commercial performance.

Role Overview

The Senior Director - Interior Design - Hospitality will lead the creative interior design agenda for the entire hospitality portfolio. This role involves defining narratives, signature elements, and material strategies across all asset tiers to achieve distinctive, innovative, and commercially effective designs that establish each asset’s unique identity. The Senior Director ensures this vision is consistently applied through concept development, mock-up stages, and design freeze.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the interior design definition of hotel concepts from development brief to approved design direction, curating distinctive, emotive, and commercially viable environments aligned with Qiddiya, district, and Operator visions.
• Articulate and position design proposals through compelling narratives, visuals, and presentations to secure alignment and timely outcomes across governance and investment stages.
• Define interior design principles, narratives, material strategies, and signature elements for each hotel tier, establishing consistent and distinctive design baselines across the portfolio.
• Oversee consultant briefing and scope definition, validating interior design scope, specialist inputs, and FF&E requirements to ensure alignment with design intent, Operator standards, 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 interior design 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 interior design deliverables to ensure approved design intent is maintained through delivery.
• Lead structured review of design submissions across key milestones, providing clear feedback and endorsement to support design progression.
• Lead technical input to development briefs and coordinate across disciplines, embedding experiential intent across layouts, guest journeys, FF&E, and key touchpoints.
• Oversee FF&E strategies and specifications, ensuring commercial alignment, procurement integration, and consistency with design intent and Operator requirements.
• Lead mock-up and design validation processes, defining mock-up briefs, guiding inspections, and ensuring quality through to design freeze.
• Provide creative and technical design oversight through design and construction, resolving interfaces and deviations to maintain quality and design integrity.
• Guide value engineering and design optimisation, balancing design intent with guest experience, cost, programme, and operational requirements.
• Champion innovation in guest experience, materials, and sensory design, embedding ESG and Vision 2030 priorities.
• Mentor teams and drive continuous improvement of design processes, standards, and best practices across the portfolio.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Professional membership or recognised certification is preferred (*, RIBA, NCIDQ, BIID or equivalent).
• Experience in a senior creative leadership role (Design Director, Studio Director or equivalent) within a leading design practice or developer environment.
• Proven track record delivering hospitality assets, including luxury and ultra-luxury tiers.
• Experience managing interior design consultants across multiple projects.
• Experience managing FF&E strategies, specification development, and mock-up programmes.
• Strong experience presenting design concepts and narratives to senior stakeholders.
• Experience working with international hotel Operators and brand standards.
• Experience in KSA / GCC or similar large-scale development environments is preferred.

Work Type

This is a full-time position within Qiddiya Investment Company.

Application Information

Further details regarding the application process will be provided upon inquiry. Salary for this position is not disclosed.