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Design Manager (Data Centres)
🇬🇧 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Glencar 🇬🇧 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager is responsible for managing and delivering design information according to the design programme and deliverable schedule. This includes overseeing design processes, ensuring compliance with legislation, and coordinating with various teams and stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Arc Partnership 🇬🇧 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the coordination and delivery of design across a diverse portfolio of projects. Ensure design information is planned, coordinated, and delivered on program to the required quality standards.
Senior Design Manager Landscape
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Oversee and manage all landscape design activities from concept to construction, ensuring alignment with client requirements and regulatory standards. Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate landscape solutions and provide technical governance over consultant submissions.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Digital Realty 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager is responsible for project set-up, delivery control, and technical coordination of consultant teams for data centre projects. They ensure adherence to design guidelines and oversee complex design deliverables to achieve technical excellence and project goals.
Head of Design - Coral & Ladbrokes
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Entain 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead a multi-disciplinary design team to deliver high-impact integrated campaigns across UK brands while maintaining creative integrity. Set the creative vision, act as brand guardian, and champion the adoption of AI tools to enhance design quality and speed.
Senior Design Manager, Events
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Mcdermott Will & Schulte 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager, Events is responsible for envisioning and delivering world-class event experiences. This role involves overseeing the creative vision from start to finish, ensuring cohesive and elevated experiences across various event formats.
Senior Design Manager, Events
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Mcdermott Will & Schulte 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager, Events is responsible for envisioning and delivering world-class event experiences, ensuring a cohesive and elevated brand presence. This role involves overseeing the creative vision from concept to execution, managing timelines, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
Tailored Clothing Design Manager
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Peter Millar 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Tailored Clothing Design Manager will oversee the seasonal assortment strategy and manage the end-to-end development process from concept through production. This role requires collaboration with senior leadership and various departments to ensure product execution meets quality and commercial objectives.
Global Head of Design - International Wealth and Premier Banking
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hsbc 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Global Head of Design defines the vision and strategy for design across International Wealth and Premier Banking to create world-class customer and colleague experiences. This includes overseeing a multi-disciplinary design team and integrating Responsible AI into the design lifecycle to drive measurable business value.
Traveling Design Manager - MSG - Pharmaceutical
🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
Turner Construction Company 🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design process from schematic design through execution, ensuring client requirements are met. They also manage the design team and coordinate with construction teams to optimize design and minimize costs.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Adelphi Group 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Execute high-quality creative designs across presentations, digital, social, and print media to support pitches and brand initiatives. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to translate strategy into compelling visual narratives and scalable brand assets.
Interim Head of Design - Volunteer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Heyrick Society 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As Interim Head of Design, you will lead the Society’s visual direction and output, maintaining and developing design work during maternity cover. Key responsibilities include overseeing visual identity, designing materials, and supporting key initiatives.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Omnicom Media 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Presentation Designer executes high-quality creative across various media forms, supporting pitches, marketing, campaigns, and internal brand initiatives. They collaborate with designers, strategists, and producers while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
Design Manager - Construction Services
🇺🇸 Gary, Indiana, United States of America
Aecom 🇺🇸 Gary, Indiana, United States of America
The Design Manager coordinates all design disciplines with construction execution to ensure technical requirements, budget, and schedule constraints are integrated. They serve as the primary liaison between design teams, construction teams, owners, and trade partners to minimize conflicts and drive efficient delivery.
Tailored Clothing Design Manager
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Peter Millar 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead the Sartorial category strategy by managing seasonal assortments, fabric selection, and pricing architecture. Oversee the end-to-end development process from concept to production while collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners.
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.