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Senior Product Design Manager (Open for relocation to Malaysia/Dubai)
🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Next Ventures 🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
As the Product Design Manager, you will define and drive the product design vision for trading and brokerage platforms, ensuring seamless experiences. You will manage and mentor a team of product designers while leading cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact fintech products.
Product Design Manager
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Moniepoint, Brm 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Lead and manage a small team of product designers, ensuring project prioritization and timely execution of high-quality design work. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to create user-friendly design solutions that align with business goals.
Community Planning & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
American Planning Association - Wisconsin Chapter 🇺🇸 Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
The Community Planning and Design Manager will lead the development of plans, policies, and strategies for city growth and development. This role involves managing initiatives, engaging with the community, and collaborating with stakeholders to implement the city's vision.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ellisdon 🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lead multidisciplinary design teams through pursuit, development, and construction support phases to ensure projects are coordinated and compliant. Serve as the primary technical liaison between owners, consultants, and trade partners to align design with budget and schedule objectives.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ellisdon 🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
As a Design Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary design teams through the pursuit, design development, and construction support phases of projects. You will serve as the primary technical liaison between various stakeholders, ensuring design coordination and compliance with project objectives.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
Vinci Construction 🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will lead design teams for water and wastewater infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment among stakeholders and compliance with technical and client requirements. This role includes managing design management plans, overseeing HSEQ compliance, and acting as a liaison between construction and design teams.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jll 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager will lead the design process on Canadian workplace projects, ensuring design intent is realized from brief through to occupancy. They will also manage the design team, maintain quality standards, and coordinate with various stakeholders for smooth project delivery.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jll 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design process for Canadian workplace projects from brief to occupancy, ensuring high quality and design excellence. Manage the Canadian studio's day-to-day operations, including team development, resource management, and client relationship building.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Rad Search 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll lead the delivery of complex architectural projects from early design stages through to completion. You'll work closely with clients, consultants, contractors, and senior leadership, providing strategic direction across project planning and technical coordination.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Walsall, England, United Kingdom
Murray Mcintosh 🇬🇧 Walsall, England, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and ensure the technical quality of engineering solutions throughout the project lifecycle. You will manage consultant performance, oversee budgets and schedules, and liaise with key stakeholders on design development.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Apparent 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will provide high-level creative oversight, ensuring design output is cohesive and on-brief. They will also act as a bridge between visual and experience design teams, managing quality control and protecting the time of design leaders.
Head of Design
🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland
Proton 🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland
Lead and scale the global design function across both Product and Brand/Marketing design to create a unified user experience. Partner with executive leadership to embed design thinking into strategic roadmaps and drive design excellence as a core differentiator.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fluidstack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own end-to-end project management of concurrent data center design and solution-delivery programs. Build and maintain integrated master schedules across various design disciplines and establish program governance.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Fluidstack 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Own end-to-end project management of concurrent data center design and solution-delivery programs from initiation through construction-ready handoff. Build and maintain integrated master schedules across various design disciplines and establish program governance.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Fluidstack 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own end-to-end project management of concurrent data center design and solution-delivery programs. Build and maintain integrated master schedules across various design disciplines and establish program governance.
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.