Director - Technical Services - Commercial Office (REQ892)

Role Overview

Director – Technical Services – Commercial Office (REQ892) for Qiddiya Investment Company. This role leads the technical services discipline for Qiddiya's Commercial Office Development portfolio as part of the wider giga-project masterplan.

Role Purpose

Translate Qiddiya's design vision into deliverable, investment-grade office assets from concept and masterplan integration through design development, authority approvals, and construction-ready documentation. Manage a network of international architecture and multidiscipline engineering consultants to ensure fully coordinated, compliant design outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Building

• Lead the technical services functional team consisting of subject matter experts for civil and structural engineering, MEP, and facades.
• Mentor and build out the in-house technical services function as the Commercial Office Development pipeline scales.
• Inspire large, diverse teams to deliver results through strong leadership and strategic direction.

Design Management & Governance

• Support the design management function with specialist input from technical services to support design competitions, consultant selection, and novation of architectural firms and lead design consultants for individual office assets and mixed-use commercial parcels.
• Support specialist design managers to direct the concept design, schematic design, detailed design development, and construction documentation stages, ensuring design intent is preserved through to delivery.
• Support the design management team with managing design consultant performance against scope, program, and fee, including chairing design review boards and technical workshops.
• Lead value engineering exercises for specialist disciplines without compromising design quality or investment value of commercial office assets.

Compliance & Standards

• Ensure compliance with Saudi Building Code, Mostadam/LEED sustainability targets, civil defense requirements, Qiddiya design guidelines, and COBU design, technical, smart, and sustainability guidelines.

Coordination & Integration

• Interface with masterplanning, infrastructure, landscape, and sustainability teams to ensure fully coordinated design outcomes.

Performance Management

• Support the design management team to develop consultant performance KPIs to measure performance across all design phases.
• Collate KPIs and share with central QIC procurement function.

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

• Present design proposals and progress to executive leadership, investment committees, and government stakeholders.
• Demonstrate excellent stakeholder management and executive presentation skills.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, project management, or relevant field of study.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Professional registration in the respective discipline (or equivalent such as Chartered Engineer) preferred.
• Registration as a Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.
• 12–18+ years of design management experience, including senior design leadership on large-scale commercial office or mixed-use developments.
• Experience leading a design team to deliver to program, balancing competing requirements on project to deliver design outcome (e.g. cost v. time v. quality).
• Track record delivering BCO Grade A / investment-grade office towers or business park product from concept through to handover.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary international consultant teams (architecture, structure, MEP, facade, sustainability).
• Strong command of design review processes, authority approval pathways, and international best practice in commercial office design.
• Expert knowledge of local and international design standards, codes, and regulations.
• Previous KSA/Middle East experience preferred.
• Major program experience managing multiple projects, conflicting priorities, and stakeholders.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive presentation skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, giga-project delivery environment.
• Deadline-driven with ability to optimize workload and provide strategic oversight and guidance in managing and prioritizing workload.
• Supports team through periods of business change.
• Exceptional written and verbal skills in English; articulate ideas, strategies, and project performance to a range of audiences and to influence at senior levels.
• In-depth knowledge of enterprise-level digital design solutions and applications.
• Strategic thinker with strong leadership skills and ability to lead the function's direction, specifically endorsing or opposing practices as needed.