Job description

The Group Chief Design Officer and Governance Committees receive portfolio insights directly from this Director of Design Planning and Services, who sits at the center of Aldar's Group Design Studio in Abu Dhabi. You connect master planning, infrastructure planning and engineering, public realm, architecture, interior design, design management and design innovation into one coordinated function. Governance, programme, data and performance frameworks all fall under this remit, built to enable coordinated design delivery, efficiency and scalability across a multi-project portfolio. End-to-end design frameworks get established across disciplines, with common standards, interfaces, decision pathways and accountabilities built in from the start. Interface risks between design teams get resolved directly, keeping outcomes coherent from concept through to delivery. Design programme planning, resource orchestration and milestone governance run across every design discipline, with interdependencies between planning, infrastructure, buildings and interiors managed proactively. You develop and manage the integrated design procurement strategy, coordinating consultant scopes, interfaces, performance expectations and commercial compliance across the consultant network. AI-enabled tools, including large language models and agents, get embedded into scenario planning, tracking, risk detection, reporting and cross-discipline coordination, supported by an integrated data and systems architecture that gives visibility of progress, dependencies, resources, risks and decisions.