Design Leadership Jobs
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Head of Design - Coral & Ladbrokes
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Entain 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead a multi-disciplinary design team to deliver high-impact integrated campaigns across UK brands while maintaining creative integrity. Set the creative vision, act as brand guardian, and champion the adoption of AI tools to enhance design quality and speed.
Creative Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hyf Recruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Creative Design Manager will lead a small team of designers to produce high-quality visual communications for marketing and client engagement. This role involves both team leadership and hands-on design execution.
Global Head of Design - International Wealth and Premier Banking
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hsbc 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Global Head of Design defines the vision and strategy for design across International Wealth and Premier Banking to create world-class customer and colleague experiences. This includes overseeing a multi-disciplinary design team and integrating Responsible AI into the design lifecycle to drive measurable business value.
Interim Head of Design - Volunteer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Heyrick Society 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As Interim Head of Design, you will lead the Society’s visual direction and output, maintaining and developing design work during maternity cover. Key responsibilities include overseeing visual identity, designing materials, and supporting key initiatives.
Digital Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Grant Thornton Uk 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As a Digital Design Manager, you will lead digital design delivery from concept to execution across various projects, ensuring high-quality outputs. You will also collaborate with multiple teams to integrate brand and user experience while driving improvements in digital design processes.
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Assessment & Learning Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tesol International Association 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As Assessment & Learning Design Manager, you'll lead the design and quality assurance of learning and assessment products. You'll collaborate with Subject Matter Experts and teams to ensure the effectiveness of the content.
E&P Design Manager (Development Manager)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Octavius Infrastructure 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Development Manager will coordinate all pre-construction and design development activities for rail renewal projects, ensuring compliance and affordability. They will lead collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to develop high-quality, buildable solutions.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Walter Lilly 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate the design process across multiple projects from tender stage through to completion. Support preconstruction activities and ensure design information is fully integrated and delivered on programme.
Assessment & Learning Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Salt 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As Assessment & Learning Design Manager, you'll lead the design and quality assurance of learning and assessment products. You'll collaborate with Subject Matter Experts and other teams to ensure the effectiveness of the content.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Walter Lilly 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate the design process for prestigious landmark and heritage projects from tender through to completion. Collaborate with architects, consultants, and subcontractors to ensure designs are compliant, buildable, and aligned with project objectives.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Mace 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will provide project-level design guidance and ensure compliance with client design standards across multiple regions. They will also monitor design governance progress and support project teams with training and updates on design standards.
Design Manager - Track
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Egis Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design delivery of complex track infrastructure for the HS2 project across multiple contracts and international teams. Manage multidisciplinary project teams and maintain senior-level relationships with clients, regulators, and stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Mace 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Oversee and assure workplace design across UK/Europe and US/LAM regions to ensure compliance with client design standards. Provide guidance, training, and governance to project delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager - Energy Networks
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As a Design Manager, you will lead and manage design projects in the electricity transmission and distribution sector, overseeing engineering design work and project management services. You will ensure compliance with best practices and UK regulations while driving projects from concept to completion.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Laing O'rourke 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the architectural and façade design scope from early-stage design development through to construction readiness. Manage and coordinate consultant architects, façade engineers, and specialist designers while ensuring compliance with client requirements and statutory standards.
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.