Design Leadership Jobs in Dublin, Ireland
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Head of Design
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Anderson Mcque 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Head of Design leads a multi-disciplinary team to develop compliant and commercially viable decarbonisation solutions for large-scale commercial and public sector buildings. They provide technical and strategic leadership while overseeing the entire project lifecycle from concept design to post-occupancy evaluation.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sigmar Recruitment 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead and manage Data Centre design projects from concept to completion, ensuring technical compliance and operational robustness. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, procurement processes, and site inspections to meet project milestones and quality standards.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Collen Construction 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager will coordinate communication between architects, structural engineers, and service engineers while ensuring design development aligns with financial and contractual requirements. They are responsible for leading sub-contractor workshops, tracking design approvals, and proactively identifying risks to ensure project alignment.
Principal Project Manager / Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Pm Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Principal Project Manager will provide strategic leadership for the full project lifecycle, ensuring flawless design delivery and engineering execution. They will act as a senior client interface while coordinating multidisciplinary teams to drive performance across cost, schedule, quality, and safety metrics.
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Design Manager, Dublin
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Pivotal Recruitment Limited 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical management of a building project, coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and third-party stakeholders. They ensure design information supports the construction programme while balancing health, safety, quality, and commercial objectives.
Principal Project Manager / Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Pm Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Provide strategic leadership for the full project lifecycle from design through commissioning and handover. Lead multidisciplinary teams and act as the senior client interface to ensure alignment on objectives and performance metrics.
Senior Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Equinix 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
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 aligning regional designs with global standards.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Coordinate multidisciplinary detailed design activities for water and wastewater infrastructure to ensure they are safe, buildable, and effective. Manage design packages, technical interfaces, and risks to ensure seamless transition from development to construction and operation.
Senior Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Equinix 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Leads the design process for a portfolio of datacenter projects, ensuring technical excellence and mission-critical resilience. Manages relationships with design partners and equipment suppliers while overseeing design schedules and budgets.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Alternative Heat Ltd 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead a multi-disciplinary design team to develop commercially viable decarbonisation and net zero solutions for large-scale commercial and public sector buildings. Oversee the full project lifecycle from initial assessment and options appraisal through to detailed design and technical assurance.
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.