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Senior Airfield Civil Engineer & Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage aviation and airfield design efforts across project stages, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring deliverables meet project requirements, budgets, and schedules. Guide design teams, present design solutions, review submittals, and occasionally inspect construction to verify compliance with the design.
Design Manager Professional (45806)
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, project plans, schedules, production workflows, stakeholder and trade partner engagement, and staffing and cost changes for advanced manufacturing projects. Ensure coordinated deliverables, technical quality, documented reviews, and effective customer design reviews throughout project delivery.
Building Envelope Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lf Driscoll 🇺🇸 Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the building-envelope design-assist process from project pursuit through construction, coordinating owners, design teams, specialty trades, manufacturers, and field teams. Oversee technical reviews, budgeting, procurement, schedules, mockups, testing, quality assurance, and the coordination of enclosure systems with other building components.
Physical Security Design Manager
🇺🇸 Newport Beach, California, United States of America
Exante360 Inc 🇺🇸 Newport Beach, California, United States of America
The Physical Security Design Manager oversees the full project lifecycle for mission-critical data center security designs, from initial stakeholder alignment to final closeout. They are responsible for managing project budgets, schedules, and quality assurance while coordinating cross-discipline design teams.
Schedule Design Manager
🇬🇧 Luton, LU1 2YN, United Kingdom
Easyjet 🇬🇧 Luton, LU1 2YN, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design and development of easyJet’s future schedules, balancing long-term commercial value, strategic priorities, and operational resilience. Manage planning scenarios and milestones, guide analysts and planners, and establish governance and improved methods to support clear, evidence-led decisions and controlled handovers.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Mello 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead creative direction and manage in-house and freelance designers delivering merchandise design sprints, while keeping projects on schedule. Review all deliverables for quality, maintain design standards, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and improve sprint processes as demand grows.
Senior Design Manager, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Leads design delivery from early planning through project completion, coordinating design partners, internal disciplines, clients, trade partners, and regulatory stakeholders. Manages design scope, contracts, budgets, schedules, documentation, quality, and change control while supporting business development and resolving project challenges.
Senior Design Manager, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Leads design delivery from early business development and concept planning through construction and project startup, coordinating design consultants, trade partners, clients, and internal engineering disciplines. Manages project scope, budgets, schedules, contracts, documentation, design quality, change control, and technical problem-solving while supporting client relationships and business development.
Design Manager 2, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Manage design delivery across industrial and manufacturing projects from concept through construction and startup, coordinating design partners, internal disciplines, clients, and trade partners. Control design scope, schedules, budgets, contracts, documentation, and quality while supporting constructability, permitting, procurement, field problem-solving, and business development.
Design Manager 2, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Manage industrial and manufacturing design projects from concept through construction and startup, coordinating design partners, internal disciplines, clients, and construction teams. Oversee scope, schedules, budgets, contracts, design quality, documentation, permitting, and field problem-solving while supporting business development and project delivery.
Design Manager I Design Ops
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Xp Inc. 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead the strategy and evolution of the Design System to ensure scalability, consistency, and adoption across products. Manage Design Operations to promote efficiency, governance, and excellence while fostering a culture of collaboration and data-driven design.
Senior Design Manager, Women's Knitwear
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Pvh Corp. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager leads the design process for women's knitwear, conceptualizing innovative collections while ensuring brand alignment and quality standards. They collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior designers to drive the success of the knitwear line in the fashion market.
Design Manager, Greater China
🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Vuori, Inc 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
The Design Manager will own the end-to-end execution of global retail design standards across the China market, ensuring brand vision is translated into reality. This role involves leading local design teams, managing external consultants, and collaborating with cross-functional departments to ensure project timelines and quality standards are met.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Maas Companies, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Manage the design process for multiple school facilities projects, from programming and early design through construction documents, ensuring compliance with educational standards, budgets, schedules, and environmental and legal requirements. Select and direct design firms, review design changes, coordinate Division of the State Architect approvals, and report project status with findings and recommendations.
Product Innovation & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Atlas Coffee Club 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Develop and prototype new consumer products, including researching customer needs, creating concepts and packaging briefs, and sourcing and managing suppliers. Coordinate launches from approved concept through production readiness, support demand forecasting, and analyze launch performance and feedback to improve products.
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.