Luxury Villas Design Manager

About the role

The Luxury Villas Design Manager is a full‑time, hands‑on position responsible for creating high‑end villa concepts from brief to execution handover. The role blends design creation with limited supervisory duties, ensuring that the design output meets luxury standards.

Key responsibilities

• Design luxury villas end‑to‑end, including concepts, layouts, material selection, and detailed documentation.
• Develop mood boards, 3D visualisations, and presentation decks that reflect a premium market aesthetic.
• Translate client briefs, site conditions and budgets into feasible, buildable design solutions.
• Produce and review technical drawings, ensuring compliance with Dubai Municipality and other authority requirements.
• Maintain drawing standards, templates and documentation control for villa projects.
• Collaborate regularly with the landscape design team, providing creative input and occasional hands‑on support.
• Coordinate with sales, project/operations, and procurement teams to align designs with budgets, timelines and material specifications.
• Establish and uphold design standards, style guides and best practices across all villa projects.

Required profile

• Hands‑on designer who spends as much time creating as managing.
• Strong understanding of luxury villa aesthetics, functionality and buildability.
• Ability to produce accurate technical drawings and coordinate across disciplines.
• Experience working with local authority regulations, particularly Dubai Municipality.
• Proactive collaborator comfortable liaising with sales, operations and procurement teams.

Required skills