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Head of Design, Product Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Bitgo 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor the design team while remaining hands-on, owning and shipping product design work, including the retail mobile experience and design system. Establish design as an early strategic partner across product and engineering, improve design processes and craft, and represent design internally and externally.
Buildings & Facilities Design Manager Southwest Division
🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
Mott Macdonald 🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
The Buildings & Facilities Design Manager will lead and grow the Southwest Division's buildings practice by overseeing multidisciplinary engineering teams and driving project delivery excellence. They are responsible for developing growth strategies, managing client relationships, and securing new business across key infrastructure and facility sectors.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Vanir Construction Management, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design lifecycle for campus capital projects, overseeing planning, design deliverables, quality reviews, compliance, schedules, budgets, and DSA approvals. Coordinate the Capital Program Team, design consultants, and District stakeholders, and review construction changes and their impacts on project scope, cost, and schedule.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Dragados Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Manage, coordinate, integrate, and assure the multidisciplinary design for West Suffolk Hospital, ensuring it meets contractual requirements and is safe, buildable, operational, and maintainable. Lead the design team and supply chain, develop and implement design management plans, coordinate design packages and interfaces, and provide assurance of compliance.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Stars 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary design team while setting the agency’s creative vision and standards across web, digital marketing, brand, campaigns, and performance creative. Provide senior creative direction for major projects and pitches, collaborate across agency departments, strengthen client relationships, and improve the design function’s processes and capabilities.
Assistant Design Manager - Facilities
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Hdr 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Support multidisciplinary teams in planning, permitting, designing, procuring, and delivering solid waste and resource recovery facilities. Coordinate technical work, schedules, budgets, documentation, consultants, clients, regulatory agencies, and construction-phase activities.
Technical Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Janie And Jack Llc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own fit, construction, and technical execution across apparel categories, maintaining standards and ensuring products meet design, quality, safety, and manufacturability requirements. Lead technical problem-solving with internal teams and suppliers, use customer and product-performance data to address systemic issues, and manage and develop technical design support.
Head of Design
Remote (🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom)
Fynity Remote (🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom)
Lead the multidisciplinary Design function, setting creative standards and providing strategic direction across UX/UI, digital products, brand, campaigns, and motion. Develop the team and oversee resourcing, budgets, client partnerships, pitches, cross-functional collaboration, and improvements to creative processes.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Filton, South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Rowden 🇬🇧 Filton, South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Lead product direction and roadmap, translating customer and end-user needs into requirements and priorities. Deliver hardware products from concept through production while managing teams, cost, schedule, quality, technical and supply-chain risks, and customer relationships.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Brightpath Associates Llc 🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Manage mechanical design projects from planning through completion, overseeing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and consultant performance. Coordinate with project teams and design professionals, lead design reviews, resolve issues, and support cost-effective facility design and project standards.
Design Manager - Structural
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Walter P Moore 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Manage and deliver structural design work for large commercial projects, including office buildings, healthcare facilities, and sports venues. Serve clients such as architects, developers, institutions, and contractors on major projects in the United States and internationally.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group Plc 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Manage design delivery for water projects on the Northumbrian Water AMP8 Framework, including design partners, project teams, contracts, deliverables, programmes, and budgets. Ensure compliant, safe, buildable, and carbon-efficient designs through design reviews, risk and assurance processes, BIM strategy implementation, and coordination with framework and project stakeholders.
Design Manager
Remote (🇬🇧 Workington, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom)
Rullion Remote (🇬🇧 Workington, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom)
Manage design delivery to schedule and budget, including design reviews, stage gates, construction reviews, and risk-reduction procedures. Provide technical support and ensure health, safety, environmental, and quality considerations are integrated into design, while coordinating reviews and deliverables with clients, external parties, and project teams.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for the design delivery of water projects on the Northumbrian Water AMP8 Framework. This includes managing design partners, ensuring compliance with standards, and coordinating design risks and technical reviews.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Strabag Uk 🇬🇧 Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design throughout the project lifecycle, managing deliverables, assurance, progress, risks, and interfaces with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams. Support tender and project delivery through safe, practical, economical designs, team leadership, design reviews, and compliance with company procedures and applicable standards.
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.