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Design Manager, Footwear Sportstyle - W/M
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Salomon 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Define and lead the design strategy and artistic direction for the Footwear Sportstyle category to ensure brand consistency. Manage and develop a creative design team across Paris and Annecy while overseeing the end-to-end creative process from brief to validation.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes for international infrastructure projects. They are also responsible for mentoring junior team members and ensuring all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Design Manager (Water Projects)
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Wsp 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage design projects within the water sector, overseeing engineering work from concept to completion while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. Collaborate with internal teams and external clients to deliver integrated solutions, manage budgets, and resolve technical challenges.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Maidstone, England, United Kingdom
Knights Brown 🇬🇧 Maidstone, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the design process from project development through to construction delivery while providing technical leadership on complex civil engineering projects. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure designs are safe, buildable, sustainable, and compliant with industry standards and client requirements.
Associate Director - Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Ayesa Engineering - Uk And Ireland 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary design team to deliver water, wastewater, and utilities infrastructure projects from concept to construction. Oversee design management, stakeholder engagement, and technical deliverables while ensuring compliance with safety, cost, and quality standards.
Media & Graphics Design Manager
🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
Accenture 🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
The Media & Graphics Design Manager is responsible for developing high-quality digital creative assets across various platforms including eCommerce, CRM, and social media. They will lead creative execution, integrate Generative AI tools into workflows, and ensure brand consistency across all digital channels.
Lead Product Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Tango 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
You will lead a team of senior product designers while remaining hands-on with complex product challenges. Additionally, you will integrate AI into the design process and build new workflows to improve team efficiency.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Falcon Green 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Manage the design process from pre-construction through delivery, coordinating consultants and subcontractors to ensure practical and compliant designs. Act as the primary link between the design function and the live site teams to resolve technical risks.
Design Manager, Transmission
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Acciona 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead the planning and delivery of transmission line and substation designs for HV and MV infrastructure. Oversee design inputs from inception to delivery while managing technical consistency, risk, and cross-functional communication.
Design Manager (F/M/D)
🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Bespoke Estates 🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves the comprehensive coordination of design processes and collaboration with architects, consultants, and contractors to ensure high-quality luxury investments. Key duties include verifying technical documentation, managing RFI/DAR flows, and overseeing the selection of materials and fit-out processes.
Project Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Transgrid 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the planning and delivery of multidisciplinary design activities for high-voltage substations and transmission line projects from concept through to commissioning. Manage and mentor a team of project engineers while acting as the primary technical interface between stakeholders, contractors, and suppliers.
Principal Design Manager
🇬🇧 Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
Mott Macdonald 🇬🇧 Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
Lead and oversee the technical delivery of multi-disciplinary rail civil engineering projects across the UK. Collaborate with stakeholders and project managers to ensure high-quality, safe, and sustainable engineering solutions while mentoring early career professionals.
Project Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Transgrid 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Project Design Manager leads multidisciplinary design activities for high-voltage infrastructure projects from concept through to commissioning. They are responsible for managing engineering teams, ensuring design governance, and acting as the primary interface between stakeholders and contractors.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major UK water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure safe and buildable outcomes. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while fostering trusted client relationships and mentoring staff.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead the coordination of the design process across multiple disciplines to ensure accurate and efficient delivery. Key duties include managing RFIs, resolving design clashes, and liaising between consultants, contractors, and the client.
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.