Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager (Water / Wastewater)
🇺🇸 Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States of America
Ghd 🇺🇸 Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Design Manager will coordinate technical teams across multiple design disciplines, ensuring projects meet client needs and comply with regulations. Responsibilities include executing project scopes, developing work plans, overseeing QA/QC processes, and managing client relationships.
Design Manager (Water / Wastewater)
🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Ghd 🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager will coordinate technical teams across multiple design disciplines to ensure projects meet client needs and comply with regulations. Responsibilities include executing project scopes, developing work plans, overseeing QA/QC processes, and managing client relationships.
Design Manager (Water / Wastewater)
🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Ghd 🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Design Manager will coordinate technical teams across multiple design disciplines to ensure projects meet client needs and comply with regulations. Responsibilities include executing project scopes, developing work plans, overseeing QA/QC processes, and managing client relationships.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Solace 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead and develop a team of Product Designers while remaining actively involved in design work. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering to shape product strategy and enhance user experiences.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Greenridge Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Oversee the planning, design, and coordination of major school modernization and capital improvement projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Lead multidisciplinary teams and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure projects meet budget, schedule, and California building codes.
Design Manager
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Mace 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
As Design Manager, you will oversee the design function on behalf of a confidential strategic client for a major hyperscale data centre programme. You will coordinate multiple design teams and ensure design outputs meet technical, commercial, and programme objectives.
Design Manager (Water / Wastewater)
🇺🇸 De Witt, New York, United States of America
Ghd Group Pty Ltd 🇺🇸 De Witt, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager will coordinate technical teams across multiple design disciplines to ensure projects meet client needs and comply with regulations. Responsibilities include executing project scopes, developing work plans, overseeing QA/QC processes, and managing client relationships.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Glanua 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
The Design Manager will work as part of a team to deliver multiple projects while ensuring adherence to health, safety, and environmental standards. They will lead the construction team, manage project performance, and facilitate coordination among various engineering disciplines.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
Glanua 🇮🇪 Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
The Design Manager will work as part of a team to deliver multiple projects, ensuring adherence to health, safety, environmental, and sustainability standards. They will lead the construction team in MEICA scope of works and collaborate with key stakeholders.
Express of interest: Senior Design Manager - Data Center & Mission-Critical Projects
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Arup 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the technical delivery of complex data center projects, acting as the technical and design lead for multidisciplinary projects. Coordinate design teams and manage design quality, ensuring compliance and alignment with client objectives throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Mace 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Act as the senior design representative for a developer overseeing a major hyperscale data centre programme. Manage multi-discipline design teams across CSA and MEP to ensure technical integrity, quality, and alignment with programme objectives.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Fetchjobs.co 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Digital Solutions Specialist will develop and manage digital strategies that align with client objectives and oversee the implementation of digital projects. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams and monitor digital performance metrics to optimize user engagement.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Tsui Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will plan, organize, and direct design activities for educational facility projects. They will manage multiple projects, ensuring compliance with standards and guidelines while coordinating with various stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Tsui Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program and critical repair projects, ensuring compliance with functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Coordinate between architects, consultants, and District personnel from project conception through final handoff to execution.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Bird Construction 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager leads and manages the design process for projects from commencement to finalization, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and industry standards. They are responsible for supervising the design team, managing schedules, and maintaining 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.