Senior Design Associate

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Design Associate to lead design management on complex high‑rise, luxury mixed‑use and super‑tall projects. The role protects design intent while coordinating consultants, approvals and stakeholder expectations across demanding workstreams.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain project vision, design principles and quality standards through consultant development and review.
• Manage external consultants, specialist inputs, deliverables, review cycles, information requests and issue resolution.
• Track design milestones, decisions, dependencies, risks and approvals to keep leadership and teams aligned.
• Review consultant submissions for planning logic, architectural quality, coordination, efficiency, brief compliance and commercial alignment.
• Prepare concise updates, meeting notes, decision logs and review material for internal leadership and owning‑entity stakeholders.
• Assess impact of design decisions on schedules, feasibility, cost, constructability, operations and delivery risk.
• Work with designers and coordinators to ensure project material is accurate, disciplined, current and suitable for review or issue.
• Contribute to studio standards, templates, review methods and reporting structures that improve design management.

Required profile

• 10–15 years of experience in architecture, design management, development‑side design roles or consultant coordination.
• Proven experience on high‑rise, luxury mixed‑use, tower or super‑tall projects; international exposure is a plus.
• Strong architectural judgement with ability to assess planning efficiency, design quality and coordination gaps quickly.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary consultants through concept, schematic and later design stages.
• Structured, calm and reliable with commercial awareness and ability to balance design, development and leadership requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to be clear, diplomatic and firm when needed.

Required skills

• Tower planning
• Podium and mixed‑use interface design
• Vertical transportation planning
• Façade coordination
• Back‑of‑house logic development
• Consultant coordination and workflow management