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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Arizona, United States of America
Storm4 🇺🇸 Arizona, United States of America
Lead preconstruction and design for major data center projects, managing external design partners, technical deliverables, schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder approvals. Coordinate with construction, operations, and customers from land enablement through contractor mobilization, and support project completion and operational turnover.
Head of Design - Developer Tools & AI Infrastructure
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Greylock Partners 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and lead the product design vision, standards, and design systems while personally designing and prototyping core product experiences. Partner closely with founders and engineering to ship an intuitive developer experience across the product UI, APIs, SDKs, and other developer-facing surfaces.
Associate Design Manager
🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead coordinated multidisciplinary design delivery for assigned infrastructure projects or work packages, managing technical interfaces, assurance, quality, safety, programme, resources, budgets, risks, and contractual requirements. Build client and business relationships, contribute to bids and opportunities, coach colleagues, and lead innovation, sustainable design, and continuous improvement.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Global Professional Consultants 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Manage the design process from concept through construction, coordinating architects, engineers, and consultants to ensure designs meet project requirements and budget. Lead design reviews, manage technical submissions, and resolve design and buildability issues.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Lead engineering design delivery across assigned projects and line-manage Design Managers, supporting their development and consistent performance. Coordinate with engineering leads and construction partners, oversee design assurance and quality, and ensure health and safety compliance while promoting innovation and sustainability.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group Plc 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead design delivery for an infrastructure or non-infrastructure element of major potable water transfer projects, managing the design team from feasibility through construction and commissioning. Plan and resource design activities, collaborate with delivery and operational stakeholders, support client sign-off, and promote value-for-money decisions and continuous improvement.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Mitie 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design management across design-and-build projects from concept through construction, testing, commissioning, and handover. Manage design documentation, technical compliance, stakeholder and supplier coordination, tender and cost support, and project reporting on risks and non-compliance.
Design Manager/ Project Manager
🇸🇬 Singapore
Arup 🇸🇬 Singapore
Manage current and future project commitments, including contract administration, project finances, manpower, financial forecasting, and project closeout. Coordinate clients and project teams, use the client’s project management tool, and report on KPIs, progress, and cost performance.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tdm Recruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design across multiple live residential building safety remediation and re-cladding projects, coordinating consultants and specialist subcontractors from feasibility through delivery. Manage regulatory submissions, maintain the golden thread, ensure compliant and buildable designs, control design changes, and align design programmes with construction.
Senior Design Manager - Hotels
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage the design development process and consultant teams for commercial-to-hotel conversion projects, ensuring designs meet client requirements, budgets, schedules, and regulatory standards. Coordinate design reviews, specialist contractors, risk management, sustainability, documentation, and construction-stage quality processes.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the design process for office-to-hotel conversions, managing consultants and stakeholders while ensuring designs meet project goals, budgets, schedules, quality standards, and regulatory requirements. Oversee design documentation, approvals, value engineering, sustainability, and design support during construction.
Design Manager - Structural
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage structural design development and consultant teams for commercial-to-hotel conversion projects, ensuring designs meet technical, regulatory, cost, and programme requirements. Coordinate structural design with other disciplines and specialist packages, manage design risks and construction-phase queries, and support quality control and implementation on site.
Senior Design Manager Mechanical - Data Center Design シニアデザインマネージャー機械
🇯🇵 Japan
Specialized Group 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead mechanical design for critical data center infrastructure projects, coordinating with project managers and engineers to integrate mechanical systems with HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems. Ensure compliance with local regulations and industry standards, oversee design quality and documentation, manage vendors and material specifications, resolve technical issues, and guide engineering teams.
Art Director & Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Eden, House Of Art 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Set the artistic direction and manage the brand’s visual identity across events, exhibitions, publications, artist branding, digital products, campaigns, and artwork. Lead and mentor the creative team, integrate AI tools into studio workflows, and collaborate with marketing, curatorial, event, product, and other teams to deliver cohesive work from concept through execution.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Mott Macdonald 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will oversee and coordinate a team of digital designers to deliver water and wastewater infrastructure projects while ensuring adherence to budgets and engineering standards. They will also mentor junior staff, collaborate with external partners, and provide technical support for new bid opportunities.
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.