Design Leadership Jobs
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Expert Opportunity - Head of Design ($80/hr, up to $1,600/week)
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Ethos Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Create, evaluate, and refine AI-generated presentations and slide decks across various creative workflows. This includes developing concept boards, campaign narratives, and design rationale slides for executive audiences.
Expert Opportunity - Head of Design ($80/hr, up to $1,600/week)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Ethos Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Create, evaluate, and refine AI-generated presentations and slide decks across various creative workflows. Develop visual storytelling, concept boards, and design rationale slides for client and executive audiences.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Galliford Try 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage the design process for projects to meet customer requirements and framework deliverables. Lead the appointment of design consultants and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Walsall, England, United Kingdom
Murray Mcintosh 🇬🇧 Walsall, England, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and ensure the technical quality of engineering solutions throughout the project lifecycle. You will manage consultant performance, oversee budgets and schedules, and liaise with key stakeholders on design development.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Volkerwessels Uk 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
As Senior Design Manager, you will lead the integrated design process across pre-construction and construction phases, ensuring compliance and quality. You will guide design consultants, collaborate with clients, and drive innovation and value engineering throughout the design journey.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Tilbury Douglas 🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and manage the design process from tender through to construction, ensuring alignment with programme, cost, and quality requirements. They will drive innovative design solutions and manage client relationships throughout the pre-construction phase.
Design Manager (Civils)
🇬🇧 Birstall, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
M Group Water 🇬🇧 Birstall, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
You will provide design leadership across infrastructure projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality designs. Additionally, you will manage design programmes and act as the primary technical interface with clients and stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager - Regulation, Audit & Governance (CDM)
🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Project People 🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager supports the implementation and continual improvement of building safety and regulatory compliance across mobile telecommunications infrastructure. This includes interpreting legislation, developing guidance, and ensuring compliance frameworks are effective.
Design Manager (Data Centres)
🇬🇧 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Glencar 🇬🇧 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager is responsible for managing and delivering design information according to the design programme and deliverable schedule. This includes overseeing design processes, ensuring compliance with legislation, and coordinating with various teams and stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Arc Partnership 🇬🇧 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the coordination and delivery of design across a diverse portfolio of projects. Ensure design information is planned, coordinated, and delivered on program to the required quality standards.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Digital Realty 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager is responsible for project set-up, delivery control, and technical coordination of consultant teams for data centre projects. They ensure adherence to design guidelines and oversee complex design deliverables to achieve technical excellence and project goals.
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.
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.