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Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ghd Group Pty Ltd 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead and oversee the full multidisciplinary design delivery for complex, large-scale building projects. Provide strategic direction to design teams while ensuring alignment with client requirements and company standards.
Design Manager - South Sydney
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hays 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will lead the civil design function by managing a team of engineers and drafters to deliver multiple projects from concept to completion. Key duties include coordinating design reviews, ensuring technical accuracy, and supporting business development through client relationship management.
Instructional Design Manager
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Kfc 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Lead and coach a team of instructional designers while personally developing high-impact learning solutions across various modalities. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align training programs with business priorities and drive operational readiness.
Sr. Design Manager, Product
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Meltwater 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead a distributed design team to develop high-quality software interfaces and enhance the platform experience. Mentor product designers while collaborating cross-functionally with product managers and engineers to align design with business objectives.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Dps Group Global 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Design Manager plans and organizes architectural and engineering functions for semiconductor and advanced technology projects. They are responsible for managing project budgets, resource plans, client relationships, and leading subordinate project managers.
Innovative Program Curriculum Design Manager (Volunteer)
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Passion For Life, Inc. 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Develop and implement the Learning Experience and Design strategy to create scalable, learner-centered solutions for youth. Lead the LED team in creating experiential learning classes and ensuring quality assurance across various delivery modalities.
Instructional Design Manager
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Kfc Europe 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Lead a team of instructional designers while directly creating high-impact learning solutions to build capability across the KFC system. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive readiness strategies for product launches, technology implementations, and operational improvements.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager leads design project management for large or multi-discipline projects from proposal through closeout. Key duties include managing design teams, overseeing project schedules, and ensuring compliance with contract requirements and quality objectives.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Ventana Construction Corporation 🇨🇦 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Lead complex design-build and construction management projects from pre-construction through to construction readiness while ensuring design outcomes align with client expectations and budgets. Act as the primary contact for clients and consultants to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and facilitate design development.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Xion 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the creative and brand vision to redefine the company's global presence across digital, social, and viral channels. Develop and implement scalable design systems while collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver user-centric experiences.
Design Manager (f/m/d)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Digital Realty 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the planning and delivery of complex data center projects from concept through commissioning while coordinating multidisciplinary design teams. Manage external consultants, design schedules, budgets, and ensure compliance with global engineering standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager executes design project management for large or medium-sized projects from proposal through closeout. They lead design teams, manage workloads, ensure contract compliance, and maintain positive client relationships while monitoring project financials.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager executes design project management for large or medium-sized projects from proposal through closeout. They lead design teams, manage workloads, ensure contract compliance, and oversee project financial performance and schedules.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager executes design project management for large or medium-sized projects from proposal through closeout. They lead design teams, manage schedules, ensure contract compliance, and oversee project financial performance.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager executes design project management for large or medium-sized projects from proposal through closeout. They lead design teams, manage workloads, ensure contract compliance, and maintain positive 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.