
Damac
Design Manager (Real Estate Development)
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 12/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
27/01/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
12/03/2026
Job description
The Design Manager is responsible for leading and managing the full design management function for real estate development projects, ensuring that all architectural and design outputs meet defined scope of work requirements, approved budgets, timelines, and quality standards. The role oversees both external consultants and the in-house design team, ensuring seamless coordination, alignment, and accountability throughout all design stages. The Design Manager reviews and provides detailed technical and design feedback on all drawings, specifications, and documents, ensuring that revisions, comments, and authority requirements are fully incorporated across all deliverables. The position plays a critical role in guiding consultants on operational requirements, enforcing correct standards and procedures, and maintaining consistency across projects. In addition, the role conducts in-depth design studies to enhance the unique selling propositions (USPs) and overall design quality of DAMAC developments, prepares comprehensive project briefs and design guidelines for new projects, manages the preparation and submission of planning and authority approvals, and ensures a disciplined, methodical approach to value engineering and constructability analysis throughout the design lifecycle to support cost efficiency, buildability, and design excellence.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Manage and monitor the performance of external consultants and the in-house design team to ensure all design deliverables comply with approved scope of work, timelines, budgets, and quality standards
- Review all architectural drawings, specifications, and technical documents in detail and provide structured feedback to ensure accuracy, compliance, and design intent alignment
- Ensure all revisions, comments, and updates are fully incorporated into drawings and documentation across all project stages
- Guide, coordinate, and supervise external consultants on operational, technical, and procedural requirements to maintain required standards and consistency
- Conduct detailed design studies and design optimization exercises to enhance project unique selling propositions and overall design quality
- Prepare comprehensive project briefs, design guidelines, and design criteria documents for new development projects
- Manage the preparation, submission, follow-up, and successful obtaining of planning approvals and authority approvals from relevant regulatory bodies
- Ensure value engineering exercises are carried out in a detailed and structured manner without compromising design intent or quality
- Ensure constructability reviews are embedded throughout the design development process to improve buildability, reduce risk, and optimize cost
- Coordinate design activities with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment between design, development, and construction objectives
Experience & skills
- Hold a professional degree in Architecture from a recognized academic institution
- Possess a minimum of 6 years of professional experience in architectural design and design management roles
- Have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in design development stages of large-scale projects
- Demonstrate experience working with internationally recognized real estate developers or architectural and design consultancy firms
- Demonstrate strong experience managing consultants, reviewing technical documentation, and coordinating multidisciplinary design inputs
- Possess solid understanding of design standards, planning authority requirements, and real estate development design processes