Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sisk Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Senior Design Manager will lead the delivery of effective design across multiple projects or a single large-scale project, ensuring compliance with regulations and industry standards. They will manage and mentor design teams, liaising with various stakeholders to identify and resolve design and technical issues throughout the project lifecycle.
Head of Design & Build
🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
Cushman & Wakefield 🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
The Head of Design & Build will establish and lead Cushman & Wakefield’s Design & Build platform in Ireland, developing the operating model and governance structure. This role includes overseeing project delivery, ensuring compliance, and building a high-performing team.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
John Paul Construction 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager will manage the setting out of projects, coordinating architectural and engineering information, and utilities and services. They will also prepare and maintain schedules for information requirements and monitor the technical submittal process.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Alternative Heat 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead a multi-disciplinary design team to develop commercially viable decarbonisation and net zero solutions for large-scale commercial and public sector buildings. Oversee the full project lifecycle from initial assessment and options appraisal through to detailed design and delivery.
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Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Vision Contracting 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager leads and manages the design process on construction projects from pre-construction to completion, ensuring timely and compliant design information. They act as the main point of contact for clients and coordinate with various stakeholders to mitigate design risks and support project delivery.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Evara Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for leading the design process across Design Build projects, ensuring compliance with regulations and quality standards. They coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage design deliverables from tender to handover.
Product Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Ninedots.io 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
You will lead a team of Product Designers and work closely with Product and Engineering leadership. Your focus will be on managing and developing the design team while driving high-quality user experiences across complex B2B products.
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.