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I-270 Design Manager (PE I) - Denver
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
State Of Colorado 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead and oversee design development for the I-270 Corridor Improvements Project, including coordinating engineering disciplines, preparing and reviewing plans, specifications, and estimates, and ensuring compliance with applicable standards and environmental commitments. Advance community enhancement projects through planning, procurement, funding, coordination, and budget oversight, and provide design support during construction.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mirage 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead and grow the product design team while setting the vision, strategy, and quality standards for all design work at Mirage. You will also partner with executive, product, and engineering teams to translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive user experiences.
Design Manager
🇧🇭 Capital Governorate, Bahrain
Js Projects (pty) Ltd | Live Entertainment Solutions 🇧🇭 Capital Governorate, Bahrain
Lead design projects and multidisciplinary teams from initial concepts through approval, production, implementation, and final delivery, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with project objectives. Coordinate stakeholders, schedules, budgets, technical reviews, design changes, and compliance while improving design processes and developing team members.
Contract Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Ascension 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Develop category negotiation strategies and manage contracts throughout their lifecycle, using market research and trend analysis to guide decisions and improve outcomes. Engage stakeholders and end-users, monitor contract performance, communicate relevant updates, and lead associate hiring, onboarding, development, and coaching.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Hospitality Designs 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead hospitality interior design projects from concept through documentation, procurement, and installation, ensuring design quality and alignment with brand standards, budgets, and schedules. Manage client relationships and project delivery while mentoring designers, coordinating with internal and external teams, and supporting FF&E selection and procurement.
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Design Manager - Menswear
🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
Fam Brands 🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
Lead and develop three Design Managers while setting a cohesive design vision across product categories and ensuring brand consistency, innovation, and commercial alignment. Partner with merchandising, product development, production, sourcing, and marketing teams to deliver seasonal assortments on schedule, within cost and margin targets, and in line with market trends.
I-270 Design Manager (PE I) - Denver
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Colorado Department Of Transportation 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead design oversight for the I-270 Corridor Improvements Project, coordinating the development and review of engineering plans, specifications, and estimates while ensuring compliance with state and federal standards. Advance related community enhancement projects through planning, procurement, budgeting, stakeholder coordination, and design support during construction.
Design Manager - Menswear
🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
Fam Brands 🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and mentor a team of designers to ensure cohesive brand vision and executional excellence across sportswear categories. They will partner with merchandising and production teams to drive innovation while meeting commercial goals and margin targets.
Head of Design & Product Development
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Nextjobz 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Lead seasonal design direction and product development for denim and woven/cotton collections, including trend forecasting, concepts, customer presentations, and product approvals. Manage customer strategy discussions, coordinate cross-functional execution, mentor the design team, identify growth opportunities, and travel internationally for customer visits and sourcing activities.
Project Design Manager (@one Alliance)
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Binnies 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design and technical delivery of clean water and water recycling projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating design scope, schedules, costs, risks, and resources. Champion safe, sustainable, low-carbon, digitally enabled design while integrating stakeholder and supplier inputs and delivering high-quality engineering outputs.
Global Go-To-Market Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Initio Parfums Privés 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Implement global visual merchandising strategies and adapt campaign concepts into retail activations across counters, boutiques, pop-ups, and other point-of-sale formats. Coordinate with regional teams and stakeholders on production, sourcing, quality, and delivery to maintain consistent brand standards across markets.
Assistant Design Manager
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Siris Llc 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Support the Design Manager with design contract administration, project coordination, meetings, documentation, design reviews, and review of RFIs, submittals, and other construction-phase materials. Coordinate A/E team site visits and investigations, assist with scopes of work and cost estimates, and help ensure compliance and communication among the Smithsonian, contractors, and project stakeholders.
Interior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Ballenisles Country Club 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The Interior Design Manager oversees hospitality design projects from concept development through procurement and installation. They coordinate with clients, vendors, and internal teams to ensure projects meet budget, schedule, and quality standards.
Design Manager - (@one Alliance)
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Binnies 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Lead engineering design delivery for a portfolio of water recycling and wastewater projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and project plans covering scope, schedule, cost, risk, and resources. Coordinate with alliance partners and suppliers, ensure safety and regulatory compliance, and promote affordable, sustainable, low-carbon solutions, digital engineering, and team development.
Project Design Manager (@one Alliance)
🇬🇧 East Hampshire, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Binnies 🇬🇧 East Hampshire, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary design teams and manage the technical delivery of clean water and water recycling projects from concept through delivery. Develop project plans, coordinate engineering disciplines and stakeholders, and champion safe, sustainable, low-carbon, digitally enabled design.
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.