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Design Manager - Womenswear Jersey
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Trp Recruitment Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead the womenswear jersey design team, ensuring high standards of creativity and performance while driving the development of commercially successful collections. They will also build relationships with Buyers and present seasonal concepts and product ranges.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (mbnl) 🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
The role involves interpreting building safety and fire safety legislation to develop and maintain regulatory compliance frameworks for telecommunications infrastructure. You will provide technical architectural judgement to ensure mobile infrastructure safely integrates with existing buildings across a national estate.
Design Manager (Furniture & Patio)
🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
At Home Group Inc. 🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
The Design Manager will partner with Buyers and the Brand Concept Team to design and develop compelling furniture and patio merchandise that aligns with brand strategies. They are responsible for managing category calendars, providing item directives, and collaborating with sourcing and merchant teams to execute product development.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sunshine Beach QLD 4567, Australia
Zinfra 🇦🇺 Sunshine Beach QLD 4567, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary engineering design teams to deliver complex energy and infrastructure projects while managing scope, budgets, and schedules. Ensure high-quality design outcomes through technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and rigorous design governance.
Head of Design
🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France
Lefty 🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France
Lead and grow the design practice at Lefty, managing a team of designers while setting the strategy and direction for design initiatives. Oversee complex product features from UX discovery to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs and effective collaboration.
Design Manager
🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Dyson 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Support the development and delivery of New Product Development projects within the global EC, L&AB category. Coordinate activities across RDD, Operations, and Commercial teams to ensure project milestones and financial targets are met.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Profound People 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and manage a small design team across multiple engineering projects, overseeing the full design lifecycle from concept to commissioning. They will ensure compliance with engineering standards and provide technical guidance to engineers and designers.
Design Manager- Data Centres
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Goodman 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the design management process across critical services, managing multidisciplinary consultants and ensuring design quality and compliance. They will coordinate design interfaces and support procurement and operational readiness.
Design Manager- Data Centres
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Goodman 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the design management process for critical data centre services, including mechanical, electrical, and integrated systems. Coordinate between multidisciplinary consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure design intent is realized through to operational handover.
Design Manager, Outerwear | 3-Month Contract | On-site
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Epg Group 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Design Manager, Outerwear, you will translate global design direction into commercially successful outerwear collections for the North American market. You will manage product updates, ensure design accuracy, and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
Design Manager, Outerwear
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Epg Group 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Design Manager, Outerwear, you will translate global design direction into successful outerwear collections for the North American market. You will manage product updates, ensure design accuracy, and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
Design Manager (Furniture & Patio)
🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
At Home 🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design and development of furniture and patio merchandise to align with brand concepts and category strategies. They partner with buyers, sourcing teams, and external resources to execute seasonal visions regarding color, materiality, and silhouette.
Preconstruction Design Manager
🇺🇸 West Sacramento, California, United States of America
Seegert Construction Inc 🇺🇸 West Sacramento, California, United States of America
Lead the coordination of architects, engineers, and trade partners to ensure designs align with budget, schedule, and constructability. Manage design deliverables, facilitate client meetings, and conduct site due diligence activities for commercial projects.
Sr. Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Digital Realty 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Sr. Design Manager will oversee the design lifecycle for multiple projects, ensuring alignment with Digital Realty's guidelines and standards. They will manage consultants, lead design review sessions, and serve as the primary customer interface for build-to-suit projects.
Sr. Design Manager
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Digital Realty 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Sr. Design Manager will oversee the design lifecycle of multiple projects, ensuring alignment with Digital Realty's guidelines and standards. This role includes managing consultants, leading design reviews, and serving as the primary customer interface for build-to-suit projects.
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.