Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Client-Side Design Manager
🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Eir Business Talent 🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Lead the client-side design phase and procurement activities for a major OSD pharmaceutical facility retrofit. Coordinate multidisciplinary design consultants and EPCM partners to ensure the project meets GMP compliance, budget, and schedule requirements.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure safe, buildable, and effective delivery. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and client relationships while improving standardisation and operational performance.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure buildable and effective outcomes. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while fostering trusted client relationships and mentoring staff.
Senior Client Side Design Manager
🇮🇪 County Westmeath, Ireland
Life Science Recruitment 🇮🇪 County Westmeath, Ireland
Lead client-side design management for a major pharmaceutical manufacturing expansion, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and EPCM partners. Manage the interface between design, procurement, construction, and operations to ensure alignment with GMP and business objectives.
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Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Rad Search 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the delivery of complex architectural projects from early design stages through to completion. Provide strategic direction across project planning, resource management, and technical coordination while mentoring project teams.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Walls 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical management of building projects and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. They must manage design teams and third parties while ensuring project quality and commercial return.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Galway, Ireland
Sisk Group 🇮🇪 Galway, Ireland
Manage design teams and departments within a modular and MMC environment to ensure high-quality production of structural drawings. Coordinate with clients and internal departments to meet design goals, manage budgets, and mentor team members.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sisk Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the delivery of effective design across large-scale projects, overseeing the development of buildings and facades while ensuring regulatory compliance. Act as the primary link between clients, design consultants, and internal construction and commercial teams.
Technical Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Recruiters 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead a technical design team to produce compliant architectural and product designs for complex commercial projects. Collaborate with sales and project delivery teams to translate client requirements into feasible, innovative design solutions.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Global Professional Consultants 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Manage the design process from concept through to construction while coordinating with architects, engineers, and consultants. Lead design reviews and resolve technical buildability issues to ensure alignment with project requirements and budgets.
Design Manager - Ireland
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Ersg Ltd 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical management of building projects and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. They must manage design teams and third parties while ensuring adherence to deadlines, quality, and commercial goals.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 County Limerick, Ireland
3d Personnel 🇮🇪 County Limerick, Ireland
Lead and manage the design process across multiple concurrent construction projects while coordinating architects, engineers, and subcontractors. Ensure design information is delivered on time and within budget while driving value engineering and compliance with building regulations.
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
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, 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
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.
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.