Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager - Energy Networks
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, 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 - Energy Networks
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, 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 - Energy Networks
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, 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 - Energy Networks
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, 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 - 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.
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Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Emj 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead the creation of engaging digital medical content while ensuring scientific accuracy and brand consistency. Additionally, you will oversee the design team, manage workflows, and drive collaboration across various departments.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Zoopla 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will drive design vision and execution across multiple product areas, focusing on the future of Search. This role involves hands-on leadership, mentoring designers, and ensuring design quality aligns with product strategy and business performance.
Design Manager- M&E
🇬🇧 Thorley, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Core Search 🇬🇧 Thorley, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design management for design and build projects, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery. Oversee technical governance, design coordination, and stakeholder engagement.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Slough, England, United Kingdom
Skanska 🇬🇧 Slough, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead day-to-day Design Management of data centre projects, ensuring all Skanska minimum standards are met at the design stages. They will also promote effective Design Management processes and encourage standardisation of approaches.
Design Manager - Construction
🇬🇧 Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Mcr Property Group 🇬🇧 Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and manage design resources on major projects from pre-qualification to completion. Responsibilities include producing design programs, managing on-site design, and ensuring design deliverables are coordinated and buildable.
Digital Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
National Residential Landlords Association - Nrla 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Digital Design Manager will lead and oversee the design development and delivery of creative digital projects while managing the studio workflow and mentoring the design team. They will ensure that all design outputs are exceptional, on-brand, and optimized for various digital channels.
Design Manager - Energy Networks
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Wsp 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and manage design projects within the UK electricity transmission and distribution sector from concept to completion. Oversee engineering design work, manage global project teams, and ensure compliance with safety, quality, and UK regulations.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇬🇧 Solihull, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
Alternative Heat Ltd 🇬🇧 Solihull, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
The Head of Design – Decarbonisation leads a multi-disciplinary design team to develop compliant and commercially viable decarbonisation solutions for large buildings. This role oversees the full project lifecycle and ensures compliance with regulations while driving the creation of net zero solutions.
Lead Retail Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Unibail-rodamco-westfield 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Lead Retail Design Manager will lead the roll-out of Retail Design Guidelines and manage design reviews, ensuring compliance with Westfield’s design criteria. They will also collaborate with various teams to attract new brands and maintain design excellence across projects.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Thatcher Associates 🇬🇧 Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate the design process from pre-construction through delivery, ensuring technical excellence and stakeholder coordination. Lead design team meetings and drive design programme performance while reviewing design solutions for compliance and cost effectiveness.
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.