Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager
🇺🇸 Monterey Park, California, United States of America
Maas Companies 🇺🇸 Monterey Park, California, United States of America
The Design Manager oversees the design process for maintenance and operations projects, ensuring they remain within budget and meet all legal and environmental standards. They coordinate with architects, consultants, and district staff to manage multiple engineering and repair projects simultaneously from initial drawings to completion.
Design Manager AE LAUSD
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Purely Works 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Manages and coordinates the district's design process for A&E services to ensure projects meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Oversees multiple architectural projects and ensures compliance with educational and building standards.
Head of Design | Premium Interiors Brand | London
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Harmonic Operations™ | Certified B Corp 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design and technical development function, overseeing the full New Product Development process from concept to launch. Develop a strategic product roadmap and manage the Technical Design team to create commercially viable, high-quality furniture products.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bw: Workplace Experts 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager leads the design and technical management process from project inception through completion, coordinating consultants and subcontractors. They are responsible for securing statutory approvals and managing the delivery of multiple concurrent projects to ensure quality and compliance.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Psr Solutions 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design process for a £50m+ project, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and managing consultant relationships from pre-construction to delivery. Ensure all design solutions are compliant, buildable, and aligned with the project budget and schedule.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bettingjobs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the overall creative vision and visual identity across multiple brands to create a premium, game-like player experience. Manage and mentor a design team while collaborating with product and marketing departments to optimize engagement and conversion.
Design Manager
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical management of building projects and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams. They must ensure projects meet quality, safety, and commercial standards while adhering to strict deadlines.
Design Manager - Ireland
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Ersg Ltd 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical management of building projects and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. They must manage design teams and third parties while ensuring adherence to deadlines, quality, and commercial goals.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Psr Solutions 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage the design process from pre-construction through to project delivery, coordinating architects, engineers, and subcontractors. Ensure all design packages are technically compliant, cost-effective, and integrated in line with statutory obligations.
Construction & Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Cinnamood International 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The role involves defining and overseeing the global design strategy for stores, translating brand identity into physical spaces. Key tasks include supervising space planning, coordinating external architects and contractors, and ensuring brand consistency across international markets.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Vanir 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Design Manager coordinates the district's design process for A&E services to ensure plans meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. They oversee multiple projects, manage architectural firms, and ensure compliance with educational and building standards.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
H.g. Infra Engineering Limited 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The Design Manager provides technical oversight and governance for transmission lines, towers, and substations across multiple projects. They are responsible for reviewing civil designs, validating BOQs, and coordinating with consultants and vendors to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Comade 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the delivery of complex power infrastructure projects by coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams from concept to construction. Manage design lifecycles, safety workshops, and act as the primary technical contact for clients and network service providers.
Senior Design Manager - Based in Newcastle / Irish Construction Experience
🇦🇺 Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
White Space Recruitment 🇦🇺 Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
Lead and manage multiple complex projects and project teams within a new Newcastle studio. Act as the primary client-facing lead across various project stages, ensuring strong design delivery and technical compliance.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Aecom 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will lead the design function by developing strategic plans, overseeing design operations, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. They will also mentor team members and collaborate across departments to deliver high-quality design solutions that meet customer expectations.
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.