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Design Manager
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sog Design 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead architectural design direction and development from concept through documentation, ensuring design quality and alignment with SOG’s international standards and local requirements. Coordinate with clients, management, consultants, and project teams, while mentoring designers and supporting timely project delivery.
Director, Experience Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Paypal 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead, coach, and develop a team of product and UX designers while setting design priorities, quality standards, and team practices. Guide developer-facing experiences, design-system strategy, and AI-enabled design tooling, partnering across functions and contributing hands-on to selected design work.
Gift Design Manager
🇬🇧 Poole, BH15 1SU, United Kingdom
Lush 🇬🇧 Poole, BH15 1SU, United Kingdom
Lead, coach, and develop the Gifts Design Team, managing recruitment, team capacity, workflow, and creative operations. Maintain design quality and brand consistency, provide creative direction, and build relationships with local artists and creative communities.
Design Manager - Defence and Security
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Mott Macdonald 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the resourcing, coordination, and delivery of design packages across a portfolio of Estate Works Program projects. They are responsible for managing programme, scope, budget, and design quality while ensuring compliance with technical standards and safety requirements.
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Alder Group 🇦🇺 Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Lead and coordinate the design process from tender through practical completion, managing consultants and multidisciplinary teams while ensuring designs meet client requirements, budgets, schedules, and compliance obligations. Drive value engineering, buildability, design reviews, stakeholder engagement, and risk resolution, while providing technical leadership through procurement and construction.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Anglian Water Services 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the engineering team and delivery of a diverse capital investment programme as part of the Leadership Team, supporting AMP8 business objectives. Work with the Project Manager, delivery teams, and alliance partners to manage contractual obligations, meet regulatory dates, and ensure compliance with governance standards.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lucid Consulting Australia 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary engineering design teams and manage Defence projects from feasibility and scoping through delivery, overseeing internal teams, subconsultants, budgets, and technical documentation. Build trusted Defence client relationships, identify and secure business opportunities, and support continuous improvement and technical excellence.
Creative Production Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cella 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead hands-on, high-volume production design, especially executive presentations, while translating brand systems and creative direction into scalable, consistent visual work. Partner with cross-functional teams, uphold quality standards, and improve design workflows, templates, and production practices.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Cal Solar Inc 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the engineering execution of commercial solar PV and battery storage projects while serving as the primary technical point of contact for clients. This role involves managing a team of designers, ensuring code compliance, and coordinating with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Alder Group 🇦🇺 Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the design process from tender through to practical completion while managing consultants and stakeholders. They are responsible for driving value engineering, ensuring design compliance, and providing technical leadership throughout the construction phase.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Sls Consultants 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Lead design delivery for a 1.5 GW hyperscale data center campus, coordinating architecture, engineering, and specialty consultants across civil, utility, building, and infrastructure disciplines. Manage schedules, design packages, technical reviews, stakeholder alignment, consultant performance, and risks while ensuring owner requirements and quality standards are met.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Fluidstack 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Manage concurrent data center design and solution-delivery programs from initiation through construction-ready handoff, coordinating schedules across architectural, structural, MEP, civil, technology, and specialty disciplines. Establish efficient program governance and reusable systems, while identifying and resolving risks, dependencies, and blockers.
Design Manager - Defense
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Core Talent 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary building design coordination and delivery from concept through construction, managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, change, and design interfaces. Drive BIM and digital engineering, engage Defence stakeholders and project partners, and provide technical leadership while embedding safety, security, quality, and sustainability.
I-270 Design Manager (PE I) - Denver
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
State Of Colorado 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead and oversee design development for the I-270 Corridor Improvements Project, including coordinating engineering disciplines, preparing and reviewing plans, specifications, and estimates, and ensuring compliance with applicable standards and environmental commitments. Advance community enhancement projects through planning, procurement, funding, coordination, and budget oversight, and provide design support during construction.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mirage 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead and grow the product design team while setting the vision, strategy, and quality standards for all design work at Mirage. You will also partner with executive, product, and engineering teams to translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive user experiences.
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.