Design Leadership Jobs in Ireland
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Senior Client-Side Design Manager
🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Eir Business Talent 🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Lead the client-side design phase and procurement activities for a major OSD pharmaceutical facility retrofit. Coordinate multidisciplinary design consultants and EPCM partners to ensure the project meets GMP compliance, budget, and schedule requirements.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure safe, buildable, and effective delivery. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and client relationships while improving standardisation and operational performance.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure buildable and effective outcomes. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while fostering trusted client relationships and mentoring staff.
Senior Client Side Design Manager
🇮🇪 County Westmeath, Ireland
Life Science Recruitment 🇮🇪 County Westmeath, Ireland
Lead client-side design management for a major pharmaceutical manufacturing expansion, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and EPCM partners. Manage the interface between design, procurement, construction, and operations to ensure alignment with GMP and business objectives.
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Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Rad Search 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the delivery of complex architectural projects from early design stages through to completion. Provide strategic direction across project planning, resource management, and technical coordination while mentoring project teams.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Walls 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical management of building projects and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. They must manage design teams and third parties while ensuring project quality and commercial return.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sisk Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the delivery of effective design across large-scale projects, overseeing the development of buildings and facades while ensuring regulatory compliance. Act as the primary link between clients, design consultants, and internal construction and commercial teams.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while coordinating between engineering, construction, and client stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while coordinating between engineering, construction, and client stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Glanua 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
The Design Manager will work as part of a team to deliver multiple projects while ensuring adherence to health, safety, and environmental standards. They will lead the construction team, manage project performance, and facilitate coordination among various engineering disciplines.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
Glanua 🇮🇪 Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
The Design Manager will work as part of a team to deliver multiple projects, ensuring adherence to health, safety, environmental, and sustainability standards. They will lead the construction team in MEICA scope of works and collaborate with key stakeholders.
Head of Design & Build
🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
Cushman & Wakefield 🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
The Head of Design & Build will establish and lead Cushman & Wakefield’s Design & Build platform in Ireland, developing the operating model and governance structure. This role includes overseeing project delivery, ensuring compliance, and building a high-performing team.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Alternative Heat 🇮🇪 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 delivery.
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.