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Senior Design Manager, Toys & Hardlines, Japan
🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Nbcuniversal 🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Lead product design, development, and approval processes for Toys and Hardlines in the Japan market to ensure brand integrity and storytelling alignment. Manage and coach a team while collaborating with internal stakeholders and external licensees to drive product innovation and growth.
Design Manager or Senior Design Manager - Narvik, Norway
🇳🇴 8517 Narvik, Norway
Nscale 🇳🇴 8517 Narvik, Norway
The Design Manager will oversee the design process for the Stargate Norway initiative, ensuring facilities are built to world-class standards and delivered on schedule and budget. Responsibilities include collaborating with various teams, reviewing design packages, and adapting facilities for advanced compute clusters.
Building Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lone Tree, Colorado, United States of America
Kiewit 🇺🇸 Lone Tree, Colorado, United States of America
The Building Design Manager leads the building project team and serves as the primary interface with project management and engineering discipline leads. Responsibilities include managing project performance, monitoring metrics, and ensuring successful project execution from concept to construction.
Building Design Manager
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Kiewit 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Building Design Manager leads the building project team and serves as the primary interface with project management and engineering discipline leads. They are responsible for setting expectations for productivity and quality, monitoring project metrics, and ensuring successful project execution.
IS Design Manager
🇺🇸 Glenolden, PA 19036, United States of America
Enfra 🇺🇸 Glenolden, PA 19036, United States of America
The IS Design Manager oversees the design production throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to client expectations. This role includes managing design tasks, mentoring junior staff, and facilitating communication among team members.
IS Design Manager
🇺🇸 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
Enfra 🇺🇸 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
The IS Design Manager oversees the design production throughout the project life cycle, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to client expectations. This role includes managing design tasks, mentoring junior staff, and facilitating communication among team members.
IS Design Manager
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Enfra 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The IS Design Manager oversees design production throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to client expectations. This role includes managing design tasks, mentoring junior staff, and facilitating communication among team members.
Design Manager
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Mixd 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
The Design Manager will develop and oversee interior design concepts, create graphic and conceptual presentations, and coordinate work during project execution. They will also manage client relationships and consult on material selections.
CSA Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ashburn, VA 20147, United States of America
Cloudhq, Llc 🇺🇸 Ashburn, VA 20147, United States of America
The CSA Design Manager will ensure the successful execution of CSA design and standards on CloudHQ data center projects, actively monitoring design progress and resolving issues. They will collaborate with various teams and serve as the subject matter expert for CSA design execution.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States of America
Cushman & Wakefield 🇺🇸 Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States of America
The Project Design Manager leads and mentors a team of design professionals, overseeing design projects from initial sketch through construction. They ensure design deliverables meet safety, functionality, and aesthetic standards while managing timelines and budgets.
Design Manager
🇮🇹 Bergamo, Italy
Gualini 🇮🇹 Bergamo, Italy
The Design Manager will be responsible for planning design according to project timelines and monitoring deliverable deadlines. They will also ensure project compliance with specifications and budget while coordinating with various departments and the General Contractor.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Sweco 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver engineering design solutions for water non-infrastructure projects. You will manage project plans, ensure design quality, and collaborate with other functions to achieve project goals.
Sr Design Manager, Consumer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
T-mobile 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Leads the execution of store design initiatives, including new stores, remodels, and refreshes, from approved concepts through deployment. Manages design governance, vendor performance, and operational workflows to ensure consistency and quality across retail environments.
Product Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maintainx 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and grow a team of 4-6 product designers to create intuitive, AI-powered workflows for maintenance and asset management. Partner with Product and Engineering leads to translate strategy into high-quality design execution across web and mobile platforms.
Technical Design Manager Data Center
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Aecom 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams to deliver complex hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center projects across Europe. Oversee all project phases from site due diligence and conceptual design through to construction documentation and client delivery.
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.