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Design Manager – Sports & Entertainment - Senior
🇺🇸 Home, Marshall County, KS 66438, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Home, Marshall County, KS 66438, United States of America
You will lead multidisciplinary design teams on influential sports and entertainment projects, overseeing all phases from concept through completion. As the primary client contact, you will manage relationships and ensure project alignment with client objectives.
Senior Design Manager
🇪🇬 Egypt
Designscape 🇪🇬 Egypt
The Senior Design Manager oversees the end-to-end design process, leading multidisciplinary design teams from concept to execution across residential and commercial projects. Responsibilities include developing design concepts, reviewing drawings, and maintaining communication with clients.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Gensler 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Manage all phases of projects, including design and construction drawings, while ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget. Build client relationships and drive business opportunities while overseeing project teams and coordinating with various stakeholders.
Head of Design
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Froda 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
You will own the full visual expression of Froda, ensuring everything created feels cohesive and of the highest quality. You will lead design across all touchpoints, ensuring design drives high-quality user experiences and aligns with business goals.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Hounslow, England, United Kingdom
Vinci Building Uk 🇬🇧 Hounslow, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager is responsible for independent design management on medium to large-scale projects, coordinating design activities and managing consultant relationships. The role requires developing project-specific design management strategies and driving team performance while ensuring compliance with project requirements.
Design Manager
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Mercury 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
The Design Manager will oversee the design, surveying, and BIM modeling team, ensuring effective management of design and coordination for off-site pre-manufacturing. They will also collaborate on design issues, manage document control, and lead design meetings to optimize processes.
Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Haskoning 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
As a Design Manager, you will manage project scope, budgets, and schedules while coordinating with a multidisciplinary team. You will also lead design solutions and communicate innovative ideas to clients.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Owais Construction Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program, ensuring projects meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Coordinate with architects, consultants, and the Division of State Architects to oversee the building design process from conception to handoff.
Design Manager Design - Indirect
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Builders Firstsource 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The design manager oversees the work generated by the Design department and manages employees using design software. They communicate with sales, designers, and customers to ensure timely completion of projects.
Design Manager Design - Indirect
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Builders Firstsource 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Design Manager oversees the work generated by the Design department, managing employees who use engineering and design software. They are responsible for reviewing design work prior to production and coordinating with sales and customers for timely completion.
Associate Design Manager, Workplace
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Support the design and delivery of corporate workplace projects by coordinating between internal stakeholders and external architectural partners. Assist in managing design phases from concept through implementation while ensuring adherence to brand standards, budgets, and timelines.
Head of Design and Impact
🇮🇳 New Delhi, India
Wwf 🇮🇳 New Delhi, India
Lead the design, measurement, and learning aspects of WWF India's programmes to ensure robust impact and evidence-based outcomes. Collaborate with fundraising teams to develop high-quality proposals for corporates, HNIs, and strategic donors.
Design Manager
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
3pillar 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
The Design Manager is responsible for ensuring that the design effort aligns with client business objectives and creating outstanding designs that delight end users. This role involves managing a team of Product Designers and collaborating with global delivery teams to deliver high-quality products.
Head of Design & Build
🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
Cushman & Wakefield 🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
The Head of Design & Build will establish and lead Cushman & Wakefield’s Design & Build platform in Ireland, developing the operating model and governance structure. This role includes overseeing project delivery, ensuring compliance, and building a high-performing team.
Strategic Design Manager
🇬🇧 Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Aspire Defence Services Limited 🇬🇧 Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
The role involves defining project scopes and design strategies while managing consultants and contractors through the delivery lifecycle. You will ensure all designs meet regulatory standards and coordinate procurement and progress reporting with stakeholders.
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.