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Creative Design Manager | alfanar Electric
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Alfanar 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Responsible for leading creative direction and ensuring brand consistency across all marketing campaigns and visual content. Manages the end-to-end creative workflow and guides a team of designers, photographers, and media specialists.
Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
Church's Texas Chicken Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
The Design Manager develops and reviews building design projects for global franchised and company restaurants to maintain brand integrity. This includes creating floorplans, managing architectural consultants, and overseeing trade dress and imaging elements.
Architectural Design Manager | Education
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Corgan 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design process for education projects, ensuring innovative solutions and adherence to firm design principles. Oversee project designers and collaborate with studio directors to maintain design excellence from conceptualization through construction administration.
Design Manager- Energy
🇺🇸 United States of America
Interstates 🇺🇸 United States of America
Leads design teams through the full project lifecycle from pursuit to commissioning, focusing on power and distribution systems. Acts as the primary technical contact for clients to ensure the delivery of constructable and code-compliant design packages.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Design Manager oversees the development and implementation of design concepts, guidelines, and block plans for retail banking and hospitality projects. They collaborate with stakeholders and consultants to integrate sustainable practices and provide guidance to project managers.
Manager, Brand Design Engineering
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gemini 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design and build the pre-login experience, including websites and landing pages, for GTM launch initiatives. Manage a small team of brand designers while maintaining design systems for web and mobile.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Sanas 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the end-to-end design process for enterprise and consumer experiences while evolving the company's design system and UI library. Mentor other designers and collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to define strategy and success metrics.
Design Manager | Construction
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Turner Construction 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead the entire design process from schematic design through execution to deliver efficient and economical construction documents. Coordinate between designers, clients, and construction teams to ensure technical requirements and contractual obligations are met.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fulton Hogan 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and manage the design process for major infrastructure projects to ensure alignment with construction objectives and client requirements. Act as the primary interface between design consultants, project teams, and stakeholders to optimize delivery outcomes.
Roads & Highways Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead the design management and delivery of major highways and road infrastructure projects across Western Australia and ANZ. Manage multidisciplinary teams and act as the primary client interface for Main Roads WA and other key stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Lead comprehensive design services by integrating design excellence into construction delivery contracts from inception to completion. Coordinate between clients, design consultants, and builders to ensure projects meet budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States of America
Lead comprehensive design services to ensure design is fully integrated into project execution from inception through completion. Coordinate between design and construction teams to maintain program requirements, budget, schedule, and quality standards.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Fulton Hogan 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Drive and coordinate the design process for wastewater infrastructure projects to ensure technical solutions meet client briefs and budgets. Manage design schedules, resources, and risks while effectively communicating progress to stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Majid Al Futtaim 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Lead the creative direction for an e-commerce brand across product design, media campaigns, and UX. Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary design team to translate global brand guidelines into high-quality local digital experiences.
Communication & Interior Design Manager
🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Ikano-retail 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Lead the Communication & Interior Design team to increase home furnishing interest and create demand through effective store layout and range presentation. Manage the store commercial calendar and align store communication with the IKEA brand to maintain a competitive edge.
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.