Design Leadership Jobs
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Assistant Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ghd 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Support the Design Manager in planning and coordinating multidisciplinary design projects and managing design activities between internal teams and external consultants. Monitor project schedules, facilitate coordination meetings, and ensure compliance with quality standards and local regulations.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ghd 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead and oversee the full design delivery for complex, large-scale building projects while providing strategic direction to multidisciplinary teams. Manage design processes, ensure compliance with local legislative requirements, and mentor high-performing teams to achieve project objectives.
Assistant Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ghd Group Pty Ltd 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Support the Design Manager in planning and delivering multidisciplinary design projects within the Property & Buildings sector. Coordinate activities between internal teams and external consultants while monitoring schedules and project deliverables.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ghd Group Pty Ltd 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead and oversee the full multidisciplinary design delivery for complex, large-scale building projects. Provide strategic direction to design teams while ensuring alignment with client requirements and company standards.
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Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Hill International 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead the planning, design, and delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Oversee multidisciplinary teams and manage technical interfaces, budgets, and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
Service Design Manager - On-site Abu Dhabi - Octopus by RTG (5 months contract)
Remote (🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates)
Robusta Remote (🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates)
Lead and manage end-to-end service design initiatives to connect digital, physical, and human touchpoints. Drive strategic transformation by developing service blueprints and facilitating executive-level workshops to align customer needs with business goals.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.