Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Avsar Construction Development, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager oversees the design process for capital improvement, seismic, and modernization projects from planning through completion. This includes managing A/E consultants, ensuring compliance with building codes, and coordinating with stakeholders to meet budget and schedule objectives.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Enterris Associates 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager oversees a team of professionals through the design review process for seismic, critical repair, and retrofit projects. They ensure design plans meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements while coordinating between architects, consultants, and owners.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Danish Athletics 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Manages multiple seismic, critical repair, and retrofit projects while supervising a team of design professionals through the review process. Ensures that architectural and engineering plans comply with District standards, budgetary requirements, and legal guidelines.
Principal Design Manager
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Microsoft 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
The Design Manager will oversee the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for datacenter projects across the APAC region, managing internal and external resources. They are responsible for facilitating the delivery of datacenter infrastructure from site due diligence through design, construction, and operational turnover.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Redwood Materials 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the full design and engineering efforts for BESS infrastructure and equipment installation from concept to production. Manage project funding, schedules, and communication between internal stakeholders and external parties.
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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Clevanoo Llc 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The role involves managing facilities design and coordinating capital projects. Key duties include overseeing overall design, contract administration, cost estimating, and scheduling activities.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Accenture Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver technically robust designs for hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation data centers. Responsibilities include overseeing the full design cycle from concept to construction, ensuring regulatory compliance and integrated technical solutions.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cumming Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager oversees the design process for K-12 educational facility projects, focusing on seismic and critical repair retrofits. They manage teams of design professionals and coordinate with architects and consultants to ensure projects meet budgetary, legal, and functional requirements.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Francison Consulting, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Manage and coordinate the design process for capital, repair, and retrofit projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Supervise a team of design professionals and oversee architects and consultants to ensure projects meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements.
Design Manager - Data Centers
🇺🇸 United States of America
Innovar Group 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design management and coordination across architecture, engineering, and construction teams for large-scale data center projects. Oversee deliverables from preconstruction through project delivery, ensuring alignment with budget, schedule, and operational requirements.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Ground Control 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the design function for landscape construction and civil engineering projects, ensuring solutions are buildable, compliant, and cost-effective. Act as the technical authority for design decisions, managing both internal teams and external consultants while overseeing temporary works and CDM compliance.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Redfish Solutions Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Oversee commercial office interior projects from concept to handover, ensuring technical accuracy and alignment with the creative vision. Manage external consultants, coordinate building services, and provide on-site support to prevent construction delays.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Ground Control 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate design activities across landscape construction and civil engineering projects, acting as the technical authority. They are responsible for managing internal and external design teams, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and overseeing project buildability and commercial objectives.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Maidenhead, SL6 1QB, United Kingdom
Avk-seg 🇬🇧 Maidenhead, SL6 1QB, United Kingdom
Lead and oversee the design and implementation of Standby projects from sales handover to service delivery. Manage a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project execution meets client requirements and industry regulations.
Senior Design Manager (FF&E)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Vallan 🇸🇬 Singapore
Own the end-to-end FF&E workstream for a luxury hospitality development, directing external consultants and manufacturers. Ensure the design standard is maintained through delivery and opening across guestrooms, public areas, and F&B outlets.
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.