Design Leadership Jobs in Italy
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UX Design Manager
🇮🇹 Modena, Italy
Zaelot 🇮🇹 Modena, Italy
The UX Design Manager will lead the strategy, design, and optimization of email and customer communications. This includes establishing UX best practices and collaborating with various teams to enhance customer engagement and experience.
Design Manager
🇮🇹 Bergamo, Italy
Gualini 🇮🇹 Bergamo, Italy
The Design Manager will be responsible for planning design according to project timelines and monitoring deliverable deadlines. They will also ensure project compliance with specifications and budget while coordinating with various departments and the General Contractor.
Technical Design Manager Data Center
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Aecom 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams to deliver complex hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center projects across Europe. Oversee all project phases from site due diligence and conceptual design through to construction documentation and client delivery.
Design Manager
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Osmii 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Lead multidisciplinary design efforts for data centers, managing external engineering firms and ensuring compliance with client requirements. Oversee the technical design and construction phases while ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations.
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Design Manager
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Arcadis 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical coordination of interdisciplinary design teams and the integration of efforts across international delivery centers. Key duties include managing BIM coordination, verifying technical design content, and overseeing external consultants and permitting activities.
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.