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Senior Design Manager – Interior Design
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Buro Happold 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the interior design management process across various design stages and manage coordination with consultants and teams. Ensure successful project execution and delivery while maintaining luxury standards and client interface.
Design Manager - Renewable and Utilities
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Consolidated Power Projects 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering high-voltage infrastructure and renewable energy projects. They will collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure designs are well-integrated and compliant with client and industry requirements.
Design Manager (Quản Lý Thiết Kế Đồ họa)
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Prudential Vietnam Assurance Private Ltd. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Creative Manager is responsible for translating project direction into visual concepts and ensuring adherence to brand guidelines. This role involves collaboration with various teams to meet project requirements and deadlines while maintaining visual integrity.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Mendota Heights, MN 55120, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Mendota Heights, MN 55120, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and manage teams through all phases of design, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. They will also be accountable for project completion and contribute to the development of the Industrial Water Market Strategy.
Design Manager - Workplace
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Gensler 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Lead and manage the full project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery from concept to completion. Act as the primary client interface, managing expectations and fostering long-term relationships.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Own the quality, consistency, and polish bar across the consumer and payments experience. Lead a small team of designers and researchers to enhance design integration into product discovery and drive measurable outcomes.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects across the UK and internationally, ensuring quality and compliance with contractual obligations. Responsibilities include managing sub-consultants, preparing contracts, and establishing design management procedures.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects. This includes managing teams through all phases of design and ensuring project quality and financial performance.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead a small team of designers and researchers to elevate the quality, consistency, and polish of the consumer and payments experience. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to integrate design into early discovery and scale the research practice using AI-native approaches.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and manage teams through all phases of design, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. They will also be accountable for project completion and client satisfaction while adhering to Jacobs' business policies.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Maven Clinic 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Head of Design will lead product design, brand design, and user research to position Maven as a design leader in healthcare. This role involves translating company goals into design priorities and driving member engagement and clinical outcomes through design.
Design Manager - Workplace
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Gensler 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Lead the strategic and operational delivery of architectural workplace projects from concept through post-occupancy. Manage multidisciplinary teams, client relationships, and project financial performance to ensure design excellence and technical feasibility.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
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.