Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager - Landscape| Asset Development | Real Estate
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Al Futtaim Private Company Llc 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Lead and oversee the landscape design function for real estate developments to ensure high-quality, sustainable, and functional outdoor environments. Manage the full design lifecycle from concept through construction and handover while coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and consultants.
Design Manager - (Delivery - New & Renewal)
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Endeavour Group 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the design process for new and refurbished stores, ensuring brand expression and design excellence. They will manage multiple projects, collaborate with stakeholders, and ensure alignment with design intent and standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇩 Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia
Dayone 🇮🇩 Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for overseeing data center projects and ensuring successful design and implementation. This includes collaborating with stakeholders and providing technical leadership to deliver high-quality solutions.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Hallen, BS10 7RP, United Kingdom
Thorn Baker Construction 🇬🇧 Hallen, BS10 7RP, United Kingdom
Lead multi-disciplinary design teams and manage consultants and design partners. Drive design delivery from early stages through to construction, ensuring efficient and compliant solutions.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate all design-related activities for a high-profile refurbishment and new build project. This includes managing the design process from pre-construction to completion, ensuring compliance and cost-effective solutions.
Design Manager – Water/Wastewater
🇨🇦 Markham, Ontario, Canada
Ghd 🇨🇦 Markham, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager is responsible for managing multi-disciplinary project delivery for municipal water/wastewater projects, ensuring compliance with client and construction requirements. This role also involves stakeholder management, project budgeting, and quality control throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager, Experiential
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead and grow a team of experiential designers to set the creative direction for Stripe's global events and brand activations. Partner with cross-functional leaders to build scalable design systems and ensure high-quality execution of physical and digital brand experiences.
Store Design Manager, Germany(A147011A)
🇩🇪 Germany
Xiaomi Technology 🇩🇪 Germany
The Store Design Manager will assist in formulating design strategies for Xiaomi's auto delivery centers in Germany, ensuring compliance with local regulations and brand standards. They will lead the design process, manage costs, and facilitate collaboration between Chinese and German teams.
Design Manager - Water
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Wharton-smith, Inc. 🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
The Design Manager leads planning, coordination, budgeting, risk analysis, and stakeholder engagement during the pursuit and preconstruction phases of municipal water and wastewater projects. This role focuses on early project strategy, design collaboration, constructability reviews, cost development, and owner engagement.
HEAD OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: GALLERY SCALE ARTWORKS
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design Observer 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Head of Design and Production will lead the design and fabrication of light sculptures and manage exhibition projects. This includes overseeing the entire lifecycle from R&D and prototyping to fabrication and installation.
DESIGN MANAGER - Automotive & Industrial projects
🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering design efforts for automotive, industrial, and commercial projects. Manage financial controls, resource deployment, and client-facing communications to ensure timely service delivery.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Systra Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will be accountable for the design delivery of allocated civil engineering work packages, ensuring timely and budget-compliant project outcomes. They will also coordinate between design and construction teams and maintain good relationships with external parties.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bovis 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will deliver Design Management on projects from pre-bid to handover, working independently with the senior project team. They will manage high-value complex projects and represent the business at a senior level with clients and partners.
Product Design Manager
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Epicor Software Corporation 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Manage and develop a team of product designers while ensuring high-quality design output and alignment with product priorities. Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to drive problem-solving and integrate AI into design practices.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bettingjobs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define and lead the overall creative vision and design standards across multiple brands and platforms. Collaborate with various teams to create engaging player experiences and elevate the visual layer of the app.
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.