Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior 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 regulatory and brand requirements, and resolve design issues.
Design Manager
🇸🇪 784 31 Borlänge, Sweden
Leap29 🇸🇪 784 31 Borlänge, Sweden
Coordinate design activities and interfaces across technical disciplines, managing deliverables, reviews, approvals, and changes in line with the project programme. Work with designers, contractors, suppliers, and site teams to resolve technical issues, monitor progress, and support design development during construction.
Creative & Design Manager – DACH
🇩🇪 Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Reolink 🇩🇪 Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Develop and execute creative campaigns and visual assets tailored for the DACH region while maintaining global brand consistency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners to produce high-quality content across digital, social, and retail channels.
Senior Design Manager Arch/ID
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the architectural and interior design vision for large-scale hospitality projects from concept through construction. This role involves managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring design excellence while adhering to budgets and regulatory standards.
Design Manager - Wet
🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Dyson 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
The Design Manager leads the technical delivery of Floorcare development programmes from concept through to production readiness. They act as the primary technical interface between global RDD teams and local partners to ensure projects meet Dyson's standards for quality and performance.
Senior Design Manager
🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
West Kowloon Cultural District Authority 🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
The Senior Design Manager leads the strategic and technical management of architectural and design initiatives across the West Kowloon Cultural District. This role oversees design processes from conceptualization to construction, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and project quality standards.
Technical Design Manager - Bridges, Structures + Ports
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the design delivery of major infrastructure projects including bridges and marine structures while managing scope, program, and quality. Act as the primary interface between design, construction, and client teams to ensure integrated and constructible solutions.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Zerra Dc 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead electrical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including design reviews, technical audits, and resolution of design discrepancies and interface risks. Coordinate electrical design with multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and suppliers, while supporting technical decisions and improving resilience, constructability, and whole-of-life value.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Zerra Dc 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead mechanical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including cooling architecture, heat-rejection strategy, and mechanical plant configuration for high-density data centre environments. Coordinate mechanical design with other disciplines and guide solutions through design reviews, constructability, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational handover.
Head of Design
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Aru Labs Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for campaigns and product launches.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
Mytruehr 🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
Lead and develop the Design team while overseeing residential projects from sales handoff through design, estimating, documentation, and transition to construction. Improve department processes and performance, protect the client experience, align designs with budgets and buildability, and support the company’s growth.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
Mytruehr 🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
The Design Manager is responsible for leading the design team, overseeing project workflows from concept to construction, and ensuring high-quality design outcomes. They will also focus on process improvement, budget management, and fostering a collaborative environment to support company growth.
Head of Design
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Aru Labs Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for marketing, product, and campaigns.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bedford, MK40 1SU, United Kingdom
Tiptopjob 🇬🇧 Bedford, MK40 1SU, United Kingdom
Manage the mechanical design function and lead a team of five engineers, splitting time between team leadership and hands-on design engineering. Deliver designs for new machines, upgrades, and spare parts to agreed timelines and KPIs, prepare drawings and parts documentation, and coordinate with electrical design, software and controls, and manufacturing teams.
Senior Airfield Civil Engineer & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage aviation and airfield design efforts across project stages, including planning, design reviews, submittals, construction administration, and occasional site inspections. Coordinate stakeholders, guide design teams, present design solutions, and ensure projects meet requirements for quality, cost, schedule, sustainability, constructability, and operational needs.
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.