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Arada | Senior Design Manager, Dubai
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Arada 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead design management across multiple real estate projects from concept through design development, tendering, and construction, ensuring coordinated designs meet the project vision, budget, and schedule. Manage consultants, internal stakeholders, technical reviews, authority approvals, design changes, reporting, and design-related tender and contract activities.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Dartford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
United Infrastructure Ltd 🇬🇧 Dartford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design and technical activities across projects, managing consultants, subcontractors, programmes, budgets, approvals, and compliance from bidding through construction. Coordinate design information and resolve technical issues with commercial, construction, client, and regulatory stakeholders, while supporting site delivery and project handovers.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Ralsonics Research Pvt. Ltd. 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead the machine design team and coordinate with electrical and automation functions, overseeing design reviews, approvals, customer change requests, and workload planning. Manage drawing and BOM releases for each project and standardize machine platforms to reduce design-to-delivery time.
Design Manager - Hyderabad
🇮🇳 Telangana, India
Bonito Designs 🇮🇳 Telangana, India
Manage interior designers and draftsmen, coordinate across departments, and oversee design quality, timelines, estimates, drawings, and site reviews. Meet with clients, guide design decisions, mentor and train team members, and maintain Bonito’s design standards.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fawkes & Reece 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate the design process from pre-construction through project completion, leading multidisciplinary teams and managing consultants, subcontractors, and design interfaces. Ensure design information meets programme requirements while driving buildability, technical compliance, and value engineering, and resolving issues in collaboration with commercial, construction, and client stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Alexander Associates 🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and manage wastewater infrastructure design from concept and feasibility through detailed design and construction support. Oversee budgets, resources, schedules, technical risks, compliance, design changes, project documentation, and delivery quality.
Service Design Manager - Financial Services
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tenth Revolution Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design of complex, end-to-end service experiences across channels, touchpoints, and teams, using research and service design artefacts to identify improvements and deliver customer and business value. Facilitate collaboration with clients and multidisciplinary teams, ensure designs account for all aspects of service delivery, and support testing and continuous improvement.
Design Manager - Luxury Fashion Brand
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Mode Search Ltd. 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design function and take creative ownership of the main line collections across ready-to-wear, tailoring, knitwear, and additional product categories. Set the seasonal collection vision, lead and mentor designers, and collaborate with the Creative Director, Production, and product teams to deliver commercially relevant collections that support the brand’s evolution and international growth.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tnv Construction Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead consultant and specialist subcontractor design across residential and hotel projects, coordinating design information with construction, procurement, and site requirements. Manage design programmes, technical submissions, RFIs, changes, compliance processes, M&E integration, and design-related cost and programme risks.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Blaby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Galliford Try 🇬🇧 Blaby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will oversee design processes, information flow, and consultant performance on construction projects to ensure delivery within budget and quality standards. They will also manage relationships with clients and sub-contractors while identifying and mitigating design risks throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Plan, manage, and monitor design from pre-bid through handover, coordinating consultants and design teams while serving as a key client interface. Manage design-related risks, support safety and sustainability initiatives, and review and administer consultant appointments.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Actalent 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead a team in developing and governing efficient building design standards and templates for complex, technologically advanced facilities, coordinating across internal teams and external design consultants. Review designs for compliance and buildability, and support projects from proposals through construction administration while balancing operational needs, cost, sustainability, and user experience.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Xpertis Talent 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Lead hands-on mechanical design for special-purpose machinery while managing team workload, resources, project delivery, and design quality. Drive continuous improvement, cross-functional collaboration, performance reviews, and the professional development of the team.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Skilled Careers 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate mechanical and electrical design packages across a large, multi-phase development, ensuring designs meet the brief, comply with regulations, and stay on programme. Review technical information, coordinate project stakeholders, resolve design risks, support value engineering, and provide technical oversight through procurement, construction, and handover.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Aecom 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead and manage the design team while overseeing the complete design lifecycle for complex defense projects from concept to delivery. Ensure all designs comply with defense industry standards, security requirements, and project objectives while managing budgets and resources.
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.