Design Leadership Jobs in London, United Kingdom
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Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Loba Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and take ownership of the design function, managing a team of four or more Design Managers. Oversee the coordination and delivery of design across a portfolio of complex, high-specification residential projects.
Bid Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bidrecruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design and delivery of high-quality tender submissions and visually engaging proposal documents. Drive continuous improvement of bid templates, content libraries, and visual standards to enhance submission impact.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jdl Recruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the delivery of data centre designs from concept to GMP handover, ensuring alignment with business priorities and customer expectations. Establish design management frameworks and govern the performance of external consultants and technical specialists.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hill & Hill Recruitment Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design process for mixed-use residential schemes valued at over £100m. Report directly to the Design Director to ensure project delivery.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tilbury Douglas Fit-out 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design management process for high-specification commercial fit-out projects from pre-construction through to handover. Coordinate multiple subcontractor packages and resolve technical interfaces to ensure design intent is buildable and commercially deliverable.
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Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sweco 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design management of major mission critical and data centre projects across Europe. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure technical robustness, commercial alignment, and successful project delivery.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sweco 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Coordinate and manage design activities across multidisciplinary teams for complex data centre projects. Ensure design quality, risk, and stakeholder interfaces are effectively managed from early planning through to delivery.
Creative Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sagacity 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the creation of on-brand visual content, storyboards, and presentations for pitch documents and client deliverables. Own and maintain the company's brand guidelines while providing creative direction and quality control across the business.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Coordinate multidisciplinary detailed design activities for water and wastewater infrastructure to ensure they are safe, buildable, and effective. Manage design packages, technical interfaces, and assurance requirements while collaborating with construction and commissioning teams.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Coordinate multidisciplinary detailed design activities for water and wastewater infrastructure to ensure they are safe, buildable, and effective. Manage design packages, technical interfaces, and assurance requirements while collaborating with construction and commissioning teams.
Senior Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Equinix 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager leads the design process for a portfolio of datacenter projects, ensuring technical excellence and mission-critical resilience. They manage relationships with design partners and equipment suppliers while overseeing design schedules and budgets.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Built 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager bridges the gap between design intent and construction reality by guiding the flow of design information and coordinating between clients, consultants, and delivery teams. They are responsible for ensuring design milestones align with procurement and construction schedules while reviewing documentation for quality, cost, and buildability.
Senior Product & Design Manager - Mitre
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Pentland Brands 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the long-term product and design strategy for the Mitre brand while translating consumer insights into innovative product ranges. Manage the end-to-end product creation process, including design briefs, critical paths, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure market readiness.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Built Australia 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design coordination across consultants and stakeholders to ensure project milestones align with construction and procurement needs. They are responsible for reviewing documentation for quality, compliance, and buildability while translating client requirements into actionable design pathways.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Murphy 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the engineering design delivery for major HV substation new build and extension projects, integrating multiple disciplines from internal and external designers. Act as the Principal Design Representative to ensure compliance with CDM 2015 regulations and manage design consultant contracts and payments.
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.