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Design Manager, Water
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lvi Associates 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and manage the end-to-end design process across major water and wastewater projects, ensuring compliance with technical standards and client requirements. Act as the key point of contact for clients and stakeholders on all design-related matters.
Aesop Retail Store Design Manager - 12 month maximum term contract
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aesop 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Manage the entire lifecycle of store development projects, ensuring adherence to budget, schedule, and quality standards. Build and manage relationships with external consultants and internal stakeholders to execute the vision flawlessly.
Service Design Manager
🇸🇪 Växjö, Kronoberg County, Sweden
Foxway 🇸🇪 Växjö, Kronoberg County, Sweden
As a Service Design Manager, you will own and continuously improve service value propositions across our circular product journeys. You will lead service improvement initiatives and collaborate closely with various teams to ensure effective implementation and performance tracking.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Epec Group 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the design and delivery of high-voltage electrical substation projects, ensuring compliance and quality outcomes. Act as the key technical interface between engineering, construction, procurement, and clients.
Design Manager - Transmission Lines
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Connectyou 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the design phase of a major transmission project, overseeing the development of transmission lines from conceptual design to final delivery. Act as the main point of contact for the client, ensuring design objectives align with project specifications and client expectations.
Design Manager - Substations
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Enemix 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of HV/MV substation designs while ensuring compliance with safety and technical standards. Manage interfaces across various engineering disciplines and mentor engineering teams to enhance their capabilities.
Associate Design Manager
🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
Dyson 🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
The Associate Design Manager will support the delivery of Robot's 5-year Product Portfolio Plan through strategic external partnerships. This includes managing portfolio oversight, partner engagement, and design management for outsourced projects.
Senior UX Design Manager, Search Ads UI
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Senior UX Design Manager, you will define product strategy and conceptualize ecosystem-level UX. You will lead design solutions to user, product, and business problems while guiding the careers of your direct reports.
Senior UX Design Manager, Search Ads UI
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
As a Senior UX Design Manager, you will define product strategy and lead the development of design solutions to user, product, and business problems. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation.
Senior UX Design Manager, Search Ads UI
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
As a Senior UX Design Manager, you will define product strategy and lead the development of design solutions to user, product, and business problems. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation.
Design Manager - Workplace Interiors
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead all phases of corporate interior projects, managing client relationships and project delivery. They will mentor junior staff and ensure high-quality design and client satisfaction.
Design Manager - Mumbai (Ghatkopar Store)
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Design Cafe 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
The Design Manager will oversee a team of designers, manage project performance, and ensure revenue targets are met. They will also handle client escalations and report directly to the City Head on key metrics.
Design Manager - Interiors - Senior
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
As a Senior Design Manager, you will lead complex, large-scale corporate interiors projects and serve as a trusted advisor to clients. You will manage multidisciplinary teams, ensuring design excellence and financial performance while fostering team development.
POSITION : DESIGN MANAGER
🇮🇳 Khairthal-Tijara, Tijara - 301411, Rajasthan, India
Tps Infrastructure Limited. 🇮🇳 Khairthal-Tijara, Tijara - 301411, Rajasthan, India
The Design Manager will be responsible for forecasting demand for raw materials and components, ensuring stock levels are maintained. They will also oversee the process and payment of invoices.
Design Manager - Electrical
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Jacobs 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Lead major projects from a technical standpoint while delivering innovative solutions that provide superior value to clients. Collaborate with various teams to ensure quality technical outputs and manage technical risks.
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.