Design Leadership Jobs
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Assistant Design Manager
🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Exyte Gmbh 🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
The Assistant Design Manager will oversee and coordinate all design activities, including managing engineering budgets and project schedules. They are responsible for ensuring technical standards are met, facilitating communication across teams, and managing documentation processes.
Assistant Design Manager
🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Exyte Gmbh 🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
The Assistant Design Manager will steer and optimize high-tech facility design projects by managing engineering budgets and scheduling deliverables. They are responsible for facilitating coordination across engineering teams and ensuring all documentation meets contractual and regulatory standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Kenton Black 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
The Senior Design Manager will oversee design processes for data centre projects within a leading international engineering and construction organization. The role involves working from the Frankfurt office and visiting various data centre sites.
Solution Design Manager (M/W/D)
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Digit4u Business Solutions Gmbh 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
The Solution Design Manager acts as a central interface between sales, delivery, and customers to manage the end-to-end bid and tender process. Responsibilities include analyzing customer requirements, coordinating supplier inputs, and ensuring the quality and timely delivery of complex technical proposals.
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Head of Design (Data Centers)
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Technical Global Solutions 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
The Head of Design will own the modular data center product platform, acting as the technical design authority for reference designs and DfMA standards. They are responsible for managing system interfaces, leading engineering teams, and governing external manufacturing and construction partners.
Design Manager
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Mercury 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
The Design Manager will oversee the design, surveying, and BIM modeling team, ensuring effective management of design and coordination for off-site pre-manufacturing. They will also collaborate on design issues, manage document control, and lead design meetings to optimize processes.
Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Haskoning 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
As a Design Manager, you will manage project scope, budgets, and schedules while coordinating with a multidisciplinary team. You will also lead design solutions and communicate innovative ideas to clients.
Design Manager
🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
G2 Recruitment 🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
The Electrical Design Manager will lead and manage electrical design activities across the project lifecycle, ensuring compliance with standards and project specifications. They will also support site teams during installation and collaborate with commissioning teams for seamless project delivery.
Store Design Manager, Germany(A147011A)
🇩🇪 Germany
Xiaomi Technology 🇩🇪 Germany
The Store Design Manager will assist in formulating design strategies for Xiaomi's auto delivery centers in Germany, ensuring compliance with local regulations and brand standards. They will lead the design process, manage costs, and facilitate collaboration between Chinese and German teams.
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.