Senior Design Associate

Job Description

Role Summary

This is a senior design management role for an experienced architect or design manager with a strong background in complex high-rise, luxury mixed-use or supertall projects. The role is intended to protect design intent while managing consultants, submissions, approvals, stakeholder expectations and project information across demanding, leadership-facing workstreams.

• Maintain the agreed project vision, design principles and quality expectations through consultant development and review.
• Manage external consultants, specialist inputs, deliverables, review cycles, information requests and issue resolution across assigned projects.
• Track design milestones, decisions, dependencies, risks and approvals so that leadership, internal teams and consultants remain 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.
• Understand the impact of design decisions on area 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 across the studio. Required Experience and Capability
• 10–15 years of experience in architecture, design management, development-side design roles or consultant coordination.
• Specific experience on high-rise, luxury mixed-use, tower or supertall projects is required; Asia or international project exposure is beneficial.
• Strong architectural judgement and the ability to assess planning efficiency, design quality, coordination gaps and consultant output quickly.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary consultants through concept, schematic and later design stages.
• Good working understanding of tower planning, podium / mixed-use interfaces, vertical transportation, façade coordination, back-of-house logic and consultant workflows.
• Comfortable working with area schedules, design briefs, lead sheets, consultant programmes, submission trackers and stakeholder reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to be clear, diplomatic and firm where required.

• Structured, calm and reliable.
• Able to manage detail without losing sight of design intent.
• Commercially aware and comfortable operating between design, development and leadership requirements.
• Confident managing consultants and internal expectations with discretion and maturity