Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager, ADA
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America
Represent the company in client and subcontractor interactions, support regulatory negotiations and public meetings, and establish project execution, safety, and quality plans. Lead program teams and oversee business, technical, fiscal, and administrative functions while managing requirements, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and project risks.
Senior Design Manager - Hotels
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage the design development process and consultant teams for commercial-to-hotel conversion projects, ensuring designs meet client requirements, budgets, schedules, and regulatory standards. Coordinate design reviews, specialist contractors, risk management, sustainability, documentation, and construction-stage quality processes.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the design process for office-to-hotel conversions, managing consultants and stakeholders while ensuring designs meet project goals, budgets, schedules, quality standards, and regulatory requirements. Oversee design documentation, approvals, value engineering, sustainability, and design support during construction.
Design Manager - Structural
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage structural design development and consultant teams for commercial-to-hotel conversion projects, ensuring designs meet technical, regulatory, cost, and programme requirements. Coordinate structural design with other disciplines and specialist packages, manage design risks and construction-phase queries, and support quality control and implementation on site.
Senior Design Manager Mechanical - Data Center Design シニアデザインマネージャー機械
🇯🇵 Japan
Specialized Group 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead mechanical design for critical data center infrastructure projects, coordinating with project managers and engineers to integrate mechanical systems with HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems. Ensure compliance with local regulations and industry standards, oversee design quality and documentation, manage vendors and material specifications, resolve technical issues, and guide engineering teams.
Art Director & Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Eden, House Of Art 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Set the artistic direction and manage the brand’s visual identity across events, exhibitions, publications, artist branding, digital products, campaigns, and artwork. Lead and mentor the creative team, integrate AI tools into studio workflows, and collaborate with marketing, curatorial, event, product, and other teams to deliver cohesive work from concept through execution.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Mott Macdonald 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will oversee and coordinate a team of digital designers to deliver water and wastewater infrastructure projects while ensuring adherence to budgets and engineering standards. They will also mentor junior staff, collaborate with external partners, and provide technical support for new bid opportunities.
Design Manager – AI & Creative
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. (the Times Of India) 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead and deliver visual design and art direction across print, digital, social, branded content, events, and advertising campaigns, maintaining high standards of craft and brand consistency. Manage and mentor the creative team, develop AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver effective, original work on schedule.
Design Manager, PDS Projects
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Jll 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Interior Design Manager will lead the design process from concept to execution, ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and project quality standards. They will act as the primary interface between clients, consultants, and contractors to manage project delivery and resolve technical issues.
Associate Design Manager
🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
You will lead multidisciplinary design teams to deliver infrastructure projects from inception to completion while ensuring safety, quality, and commercial requirements are met. Additionally, you will manage technical interfaces, build client relationships, and drive innovation and continuous improvement across the practice.
Data Centre – Design Manager (m/f/d) MEP / Architectural Background
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Aecom 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Design Manager will oversee multidisciplinary teams for data centre projects in the German market, ensuring timely delivery within budget and scope. They are responsible for managing bids, identifying project resources, and maintaining compliance with internal and local regulatory standards.
Design Manager
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Nextjobz 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Lead design and product development for woven and denim products, from concept and sample development through final approval, ensuring designs meet buyer requirements and are feasible for bulk production. Coordinate with merchandising, technical, fabric, pattern, inspection, and washing teams to improve product quality, meet timelines, resolve development challenges, and guide the design team.
Assistant Design Manager- Historic Preservation
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Siris Llc 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Support the Design Manager with design contract administration, project coordination, meetings, documentation, design reviews, and construction-phase reviews of RFIs, submittals, and related documents. Coordinate A/E site visits and investigations, assist with scopes of work and cost estimates, and help ensure compliance with applicable codes, federal and Smithsonian requirements, and historic preservation standards.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Axiamatic 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
You will own the design vision and experience for Axiamatic, translating complex enterprise data into simple, actionable user interfaces. Additionally, you will build and lead the design team while remaining hands-on with critical product workflows.
Assistant Design Manager- Historic Preservation
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Siris Llc 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Assistant Design Manager will support design and contract management activities, including coordinating with A/E teams and maintaining project documentation. They will also facilitate communication among stakeholders and ensure compliance with federal regulations and historic preservation standards.
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.