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Design Manager – Landscape Jobs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at SYSTRA Arabia
Title: Design Manager – Landscape
Company: SYSTRA Arabia
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
We are seeking an experienced Design Lead – Landscape to support a major urban regeneration program in Riyadh. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership in landscape design across large-scale mixed-use, public realm, and urban development projects. Candidates with GCC and/or Saudi Arabia experience will be preferred.
Main Duties:-
- Lead the landscape design scope across the urban regeneration program from concept through detailed design and delivery support.
- Provide technical and design leadership to landscape consultants and multidisciplinary teams to ensure alignment with program objectives, design vision, quality standards, and delivery timelines.
- Review and coordinate landscape design submissions, reports, presentations, drawings, specifications, and technical documentation.
- Ensure landscape design integrates effectively with urban planning, architecture, infrastructure, utilities, transport, public realm, and environmental requirements.
- Support the Client in design governance, design review processes, consultant coordination, and reporting.
- Drive design quality, functionality, sustainability, placemaking, and user experience across parks, streetscapes, open spaces, plazas, and other public realm elements.
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders including clients, consultants, authorities, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Monitor design progress, identify risks, gaps, and interface issues, and recommend corrective actions where required.
- Ensure compliance with the project brief, local authority requirements, applicable codes, standards, and best practices.
- Support value engineering, design optimization, and constructability reviews related to landscape and public realm works.
- Participate in design workshops, technical meetings, and stakeholder review sessions.
- Provide strategic input on landscape vision, urban identity, and enhancement of the public realm.
- Prepare design updates, review comments, progress reports, and presentation materials for senior stakeholders.
Profile/Skills:-
- Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban Design, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in landscape design and design leadership for major urban development, regeneration, or public realm projects.
- Proven experience in a Design Lead, Senior Landscape Architect, Design Manager, or similar senior role within PMO, client, developer, or consultancy environments.
- Strong background in leading landscape design across large-scale urban regeneration, mixed-use, city development, or public realm projects.
- Excellent understanding of design management processes, consultant coordination, design review, and multidisciplinary integration.
- Experience working on projects in the GCC and/or Saudi Arabia is preferred.
- Familiarity with local regulations, authority requirements, and regional design expectations is an advantage.
- Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Ability to manage multiple consultants, deadlines, and complex design interfaces within a program environment.
- Knowledge of sustainability, placemaking, and contemporary landscape/public realm design principles is highly desirable.