Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager – Data Centres
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Leap29 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams across mechanical, electrical, structural, and BIM disciplines for large-scale data centre projects. They are responsible for managing the full design lifecycle, ensuring technical excellence, and coordinating with clients and contractors to mitigate risks.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while coordinating between engineering, construction, and client stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Rad Search 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll lead the delivery of complex architectural projects from early design stages through to completion. You'll work closely with clients, consultants, contractors, and senior leadership, providing strategic direction across project planning and technical coordination.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sigmar Recruitment 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
As Senior Design Manager, you will oversee and direct the design and coordination of multidisciplinary projects, focusing on data centres and healthcare facilities. You will lead project design teams to ensure innovative and regulation-compliant outcomes from concept to construction delivery.
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Product Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Ninedots.io 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
You will lead a team of Product Designers while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering leadership. The role focuses on managing and developing the design team, establishing design processes, and driving high-quality user experiences.
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.
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.