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Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, 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
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Suffolk Construction 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead integrated teams through the design-build management process, ensuring project goals are met while maintaining client relationships. They will also manage design processes to deliver coordinated and buildable drawings efficiently.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Suffolk Construction 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Project Design Manager will lead integrated teams through the design-build management process, ensuring project goals are met while maintaining client relationships. Responsibilities include managing design processes, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders, and resolving design issues during construction.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Estero, Lee County, FL 33928, United States of America
Suffolk Construction 🇺🇸 Estero, Lee County, FL 33928, United States of America
The Senior Project Design Manager will lead integrated teams through the design-build management process, ensuring the successful realization of the client's project vision. Responsibilities include managing design processes, maintaining client relationships, and collaborating with various stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
United Living Group 🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead technical and design processes, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. This includes managing external consultants and ensuring compliance with regulations and company standards.
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, connecting design to business outcomes and driving member engagement. This role involves modernizing the design organization and establishing a cohesive design vision across consumer and enterprise products.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Maven Clinic 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the product, brand, and user research teams to position Maven as a design leader in healthcare. The role involves translating business goals into design priorities and implementing AI-native workflows to accelerate production and quality.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Sullivan Environmental Services Inc 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Manager oversees the planning and execution of design activities for detention facility projects, managing schedules and BIM standards. They coordinate between internal teams, external architects, and regulatory authorities to ensure design quality and consistency.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Balfour Beatty Plc 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Oversee and control the design process on civil engineering projects across the East of England. Ensure that all design and procurement activities meet client requirements and remain within agreed cost parameters.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Linesight 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Manage the delivery of design packages and coordinate with project partners to ensure scope, timing, and quality standards are met. Lead a team of design members and maintain the design change register and documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager - Electrical
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Jacobs 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The candidate will manage the Electrical Design team, ensuring compliance with industry codes and standards while developing electrical packages for power and distribution systems. They will also collaborate with engineering teams, clients, and contractors to meet project goals and timelines.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and manage design processes for infrastructure projects across the UK and internationally, including financial oversight and quality compliance. Manage sub-consultants, develop design management procedures, and mentor junior team members.
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 between architects, consultants, and district personnel to oversee the design process from conception to final handoff.
Project Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mirvac Limited 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design process from concept to delivery for a residential project at Green Square. Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external consultants to ensure design excellence, buildability, and alignment with budget and programme.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Hill International 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead the planning, design, and delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Oversee multidisciplinary teams and manage technical interfaces, budgets, and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
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.