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Retail Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mirvac 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Develop and manage tenancy design strategies and approvals across the retail portfolio, ensuring fit-outs meet design guidelines, lease obligations, budgets, and deadlines. Work with leasing teams, operators, contractors, and internal stakeholders to resolve design issues, oversee site delivery, and support customer experience and retail strategy.
Director of Product Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Juggernaut Case™ 🇺🇸 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Lead the product design engineering team and set technical direction, product architecture, engineering standards, and development strategy. Oversee product development from concept through production and field deployment, driving validation, reliability, manufacturability, cross-functional alignment, and resolution of complex technical issues.
Design Manager- David D. Backfill
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Actalent 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead a team in developing efficient, economical building designs, design criteria, and templates for operations network programs, while coordinating with internal stakeholders and external design consultants. Review templates and site-specific designs for compliance with standards, support design programs, and help improve construction and maintenance costs, associate experience, and operational excellence.
Retail Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mirvac Limited 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Retail Design Manager will oversee the design and technical execution of tenancy spaces across the retail portfolio to maximize trading performance. They are responsible for managing the design approval process, conducting site reviews, and collaborating with leasing teams to ensure fit-outs align with asset guidelines.
Design Manager- 12 months FTC
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Rider Levett Bucknall 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Design Manager will lead the coordination and delivery of multi-disciplinary design activities for Data Centre projects across Europe. This role acts as a key interface between client stakeholders, designers, and contractors to ensure design outputs meet technical standards and project milestones.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Bam Nuttall 🇬🇧 North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the design process for the EGL3 project, ensuring technical solutions align with programme, commercial, and delivery requirements. They will drive collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and manage design risks while overseeing compliance with CDM 2015 and quality standards.
Design Manager- 12 months FTC
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Rider Levett Bucknall 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
The Design Manager will lead the coordination and delivery of multi-disciplinary design activities for Data Centre projects across Europe. This role acts as the primary interface between client stakeholders, designers, and contractors to ensure design outputs meet technical and regulatory standards.
Design Manager, Data Centers - Remote (U.S.)
Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Aecom Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Lead data center due diligence and design teams to deliver high-quality projects across various disciplines including architecture, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Proactively manage project plans, client relationships, and technical proposals while identifying and resolving project issues.
Fire Sprinkler Design Manager
🇺🇸 West Lawn, Spring Township, PA 19609, United States of America
S.a. Comunale Co., Inc. 🇺🇸 West Lawn, Spring Township, PA 19609, United States of America
Oversee and support sprinkler design staff across the Harrisburg and Reading locations, coordinating design work, project information, subcontractors, permits, and field surveys. Provide technical guidance, resolve design issues, support sales and project teams, and ensure designs comply with current NFPA requirements.
Fire Design Manager
🇺🇸 Renton, Washington, United States of America
Everon 🇺🇸 Renton, Washington, United States of America
Lead and develop a team of Sales Engineers while providing fire alarm design, technical solutions, specifications, project scopes, drawings, and schedules. Support customers and sales teams through training, proposals, project delivery, issue resolution, and ongoing technical assistance.
Senior Design Manager
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ghd 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Manage multidisciplinary engineering design delivery to meet client, operations, maintenance, and construction requirements, while overseeing quality, scope, schedule, budget, and change control. Coordinate design teams and stakeholders, lead design planning and coordination meetings, and support resolution of design issues during construction.
Senior Design Manager
🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ghd 🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Manage multidisciplinary engineering design delivery to meet client, operations, maintenance, and construction requirements, while ensuring quality, schedule, and budget controls. Coordinate design teams and stakeholders, lead work planning and design meetings, manage changes and design issues, and support construction-phase problem resolution.
Project Design Manager
🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Trant Engineering Ltd 🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
The Water Design Manager is responsible for coordinating multidisciplinary design teams to deliver water and wastewater projects efficiently. They ensure technical compliance, manage design interfaces, and maintain effective relationships with clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Freelance Design Manager
🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Cubicworks 🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Lead design management across multiple pre-construction and live projects, coordinating internal and external design teams, programmes, technical interfaces, approvals, and client decisions. Support project delivery by ensuring design information is coordinated and buildable, managing changes and specialist packages, and maintaining compliance, risk, and document-control records.
Product Design Manager, Treasury
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead and develop a design team shaping a unified Treasury experience across business banking, payments, money movement, and spending, guiding zero-to-one products from exploration through launch. Set a high bar for design craft and align product, engineering, legal, compliance, risk, and other stakeholders around ambitious, customer-focused solutions.
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.