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Design Manager - Land Development
🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Lja 🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States
The Design Manager will plan and execute civil site and land development projects while ensuring design quality and process efficiency. This role involves leading technology adoption, developing CAD/BIM standards, and providing technical training to staff across multiple offices.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jdl Recruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the delivery of data centre designs from concept to GMP handover, ensuring alignment with business priorities and customer expectations. Establish design management frameworks and govern the performance of external consultants and technical specialists.
Design Manager Junior
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
011h 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Junior Design Manager will participate in the design of building projects using BIM methodology and industrialized construction techniques. They will also manage relationships with external collaborators, clients, and administrative bodies while ensuring sustainability and efficiency standards are met.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Ips-integrated Project Services 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager coordinates architectural and engineering functions to ensure project design development and support. Key duties include managing design execution plans, overseeing multi-discipline coordination, and ensuring compliance with quality management systems.
Senior Design Manager – Highway P3 / DBFOM Projects
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States
Vva Consultants 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States
Lead and coordinate design development and technical solutions for major highway P3/DBFOM projects across the United States. Manage multidisciplinary engineering teams and collaborate with stakeholders to align design with commercial objectives and RFP requirements.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cbre Asia Pacific 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Provide client-side oversight and governance for the design delivery of major high-rise residential projects. Coordinate stakeholders and provide strategic commercial advice to ensure successful project delivery across multiple workstreams.
Senior Design Manager | Real Estate | Residential & Commercial
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Al Futtaim Private Company Llc 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Design Manager oversees the end-to-end design and delivery of high-end architectural projects, ensuring they meet quality, budget, and timeline objectives. They are responsible for developing design strategies, managing consultants, and coordinating across various disciplines to ensure technical and aesthetic excellence.
Design Manager - Project Delivery - Power Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nes Fircroft 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Coordinate the delivery of multidisciplinary transmission and power infrastructure projects from concept to completion. Act as the primary point of contact for clients and stakeholders while ensuring projects meet safety, quality, and schedule requirements.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the design process for a £40 million construction project from pre-construction to completion. Coordinate multidisciplinary consultant teams and ensure design information is compliant, buildable, and delivered on schedule.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead and coordinate the design process across multiple construction projects from pre-construction through to completion. They are responsible for managing stakeholder relationships, ensuring regulatory compliance, and overseeing design deliverables to meet programme milestones.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Featherstone, England, United Kingdom
Thorn Baker Construction 🇬🇧 Featherstone, England, United Kingdom
Manage the design process for multiple construction projects from pre-construction through to completion and handover. Coordinate consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams while ensuring compliance with building regulations and BIM processes.
Structures Design Manager
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Ferrovial Construction 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Structures Design Manager oversees the structural design process for new and existing infrastructure projects, ensuring all documents meet client requirements. They are responsible for supervising internal teams and external consultants while optimizing designs for cost and constructability.
Design Manager - Dublin
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Graham Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
The Design Manager leads and coordinates multi-disciplinary design teams from concept through to construction and handover for major civil engineering schemes. They act as the central interface between design, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are safe, compliant, and cost-effective.
Design Manager – Private Label
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
French Selection (fs) 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design and product development of private-label collections for major retail customers from concept to production. Manage customer accounts and lead design teams in the UK and India while collaborating with sourcing and manufacturing departments.
Organizational Development & Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Tecno Spot S.r.l. 🇩🇪 Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lead the design and implementation of the Target Operating Model (TOM) and organizational structures to align with strategic goals. Drive change management initiatives and act as a strategic advisor to leaders on roles, governance, and culture.
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.