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Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Stantec 🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead technical teams in the development and delivery of water and wastewater projects in Queensland, ensuring outputs are on budget and high quality. Coordinate multi-disciplinary activities, manage subcontractors, and maintain strong relationships with utility clients.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Stantec 🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead technical teams in the design and delivery of water and wastewater projects in Queensland, ensuring outputs are on budget and high quality. Coordinate multidisciplinary activities, manage subcontractors, and develop strong relationships with utility clients.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Padcom Design And Construction Management 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Direct design activities for major capital improvement and modernization projects while ensuring compliance with District standards and DSA requirements. Oversee consultant performance, architectural firm selection, and design quality from concept through construction transition.
Store Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Uniqlo 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Leads the end-to-end execution of retail store development projects in the U.S., managing schedules, costs, and quality. Coordinates with real estate teams and external vendors to ensure brand standards and local code compliance from feasibility to handover.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lincolnshire, Lake County, IL 60069, United States of America
Camping World 🇺🇸 Lincolnshire, Lake County, IL 60069, United States of America
Lead creative direction across performance marketing, email, print, and web while managing brand consistency and high-priority projects. Mentor and develop designers through constructive feedback and oversee quality assurance processes and workflows.
Design Manager Railways – Project Management
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Aecom 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Lead the multidisciplinary design delivery of complex railway transportation projects from feasibility through construction support. Manage technical assignments, coordinate global teams, and ensure engineering solutions meet client expectations and quality standards.
Head of Design, Decarbonisation
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Key Talent Solutions 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
You will build and mentor a Birmingham-based design team while setting technical standards and design governance for low-carbon building services. You will also lead multidisciplinary design strategy and coordinate between mechanical, electrical, BIM, and manufacturing teams to ensure buildable and compliant projects.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lincolnshire, Lake County, IL 60069, United States of America
Camping World Holdings, Inc. 🇺🇸 Lincolnshire, Lake County, IL 60069, United States of America
Lead the in-house design team in delivering high-quality, on-brand creative assets across performance marketing, email, print, and web. Manage project lifecycles from concept to completion while mentoring designers and maintaining brand standards.
Assistant Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ghd 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Support the Design Manager in planning and coordinating multidisciplinary design projects and managing design activities between internal teams and external consultants. Monitor project schedules, facilitate coordination meetings, and ensure compliance with quality standards and local regulations.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ghd 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead and oversee the full design delivery for complex, large-scale building projects while providing strategic direction to multidisciplinary teams. Manage design processes, ensure compliance with local legislative requirements, and mentor high-performing teams to achieve project objectives.
Design Manager - Architecture - Senior
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead architectural teams through all project phases from design to construction while managing client relationships and project financial health. Partner with studio leadership to drive business development through RFPs and mentor junior staff to foster professional growth.
Design Manager, AMER
🇺🇸 Aldie, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America
Yondr Group 🇺🇸 Aldie, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America
Lead the project design review process and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure consistency and quality across all vendor deliverables. Manage technical due diligence, site selection, and the implementation of global design standards throughout the project lifecycle.
Head of Design
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
4c Strategies 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead and develop a distributed team of designers while remaining hands-on in designing for Defence products. Establish design processes, governance, and quality standards to align user experience with business priorities and product strategy.
Senior Design Manager (Shopping Malls)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Oversee the end-to-end design process for a large-scale shopping mall development, ensuring the vision is translated into a buildable and commercially viable solution. Manage multidisciplinary consultants and coordinate across architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines to meet project milestones.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Mott Macdonald 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams in the technical delivery of complex, sustainable water and wastewater infrastructure projects from definition to handover. Manage design performance across cost, quality, risk, and technical assurance while maintaining strong client relationships.
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.