Design Leadership Jobs in Malaysia

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Design Manager - Wet

🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia

The Design Manager leads technical delivery for Floorcare development programs from concept through industrialization and production readiness. They act as the primary technical contact, coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment with global engineering standards.

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Design Manager - Corded

🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia

The Design Manager leads the technical delivery of Floorcare development programs from concept through industrialization and production readiness. They act as the primary technical interface between global RDD teams and local manufacturing partners to ensure project milestones and quality standards are met.

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Design Manager – Cordfree

🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia

The Design Manager leads technical delivery of Floorcare development programs from concept through industrialization and production readiness. They act as the primary technical contact, coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment with global engineering standards.

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Design Manager – Cordfree

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Lead the technical delivery of Floorcare development programmes from concept through to production readiness. Coordinate cross-functional teams and act as the primary technical interface between global RDD and Malaysian manufacturing partners.

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5d

Design Manager - Wet

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Lead the technical delivery of Floorcare development programmes from concept through to production readiness. Coordinate cross-functional teams and act as the primary technical interface between global RDD and Malaysian manufacturing partners.

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5d

Design Manager - Corded

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Lead the technical delivery of Floorcare development programmes from concept through to production readiness. Coordinate cross-functional teams and act as the primary technical interface between global RDD and Malaysian manufacturing partners.

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2mo

Design Manager

🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Support the development and delivery of New Product Development projects within the global EC, L&AB category. Coordinate activities across RDD, Operations, and Commercial teams to ensure project milestones and financial targets are met.

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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.