Design Leadership Jobs in Paris, France
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Design Manager
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Mercury 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead architectural design development and coordinate multidisciplinary teams, models, interfaces, and deliverables for data centre projects, ensuring compliance with client requirements, regulations, and mission-critical performance criteria. Manage consultants, design schedules, change and value engineering, stakeholder approvals, and construction-phase architectural support.
Senior Design Manager
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Black & White Engineering 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities across complex engineering projects, managing programmes, interfaces, deliverables, quality, and design risks. Facilitate reviews, resolve technical issues, and work with clients and project stakeholders to deliver practical, coordinated, and constructable solutions.
Design Manager - Special Projects
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Polène Paris 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design and development of special projects, including collaborative products, upcycling initiatives, exceptional objects, and gifts, while managing two designers. Oversee product development and technical specifications, coordinating with product management, internal workshops, artisans, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to meet delivery milestones.
Design Manager - Special Projects
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Polène Paris 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design and development of special projects while managing a team of two designers. Oversee the creative process and product development in collaboration with internal workshops and cross-functional teams.
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Senior Design Manager
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Pennylane Sas 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead, support, and develop a team of product designers while setting a clear design direction for the Financial Services track. Partner with cross-functional teams to improve customer experience and drive acquisition, activation, and revenue objectives.
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.