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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.
Design Manager (Arch/ID)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead architectural and interior design from concept through construction for large-scale hospitality and leisure projects, managing multidisciplinary teams, consultants, schedules, budgets, and design quality. Coordinate with stakeholders, brand operators, authorities, and construction teams to maintain design intent, meet KSA regulations and brand standards, and resolve design issues.
Design Manager (MEP)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead and coordinate MEP design across project stages, integrating architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines while reviewing design documents for quality and compliance. Manage consultants and submissions, support procurement and authority approvals, and resolve technical issues during construction.
Senior Design Manager (MEP)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead MEP design delivery from concept through detailed design, managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating with clients, consultants, contractors, and other design disciplines. Ensure technical compliance and quality while managing schedules, resources, risks, value engineering, sustainability initiatives, and design issues through project handover.
Design Manager (Mechanical)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead mechanical design from concept through detailed design and construction support, ensuring technical quality, code compliance, and alignment with project safety, schedule, and cost objectives. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage resources and budgets, guide engineering staff, engage stakeholders, mitigate technical risks, and support procurement and continuous improvement.
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.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Strabag Uk 🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead design management across complex construction projects from pre-construction through completion, ensuring designs are safe, compliant, buildable, sustainable, and commercially effective. Manage design processes, deliverables, assurance, progress reporting, consultant interfaces, team performance, and tender-stage design while identifying and mitigating risks.
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.