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Design Manager - Defence and Secuirty
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Mott Macdonald 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the resourcing, coordination, and delivery of design packages across a portfolio of Estate Works Program projects. They are responsible for managing programme, scope, budget, and design quality while ensuring compliance with safety standards and client requirements.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Altadena, California, United States
Enhaus Design Build 🇺🇸 Altadena, California, United States
Lead and develop a design team while ensuring the technical quality and constructability of residential drawing sets from schematic design to construction documents. Establish standardized systems and SOPs to optimize the design workflow and coordinate with external consultants.
Design Manager
🇻🇳 Phường Chí Minh, Hai Duong, Vietnam
Trung Thuy Group 🇻🇳 Phường Chí Minh, Hai Duong, Vietnam
The Design Manager is responsible for overseeing the entire design process, from preparing master documents and coordinating with consultants to managing authority submissions and licenses. They ensure all design deliverables align with construction schedules, quality standards, and the project brief.
Sr. Design Manager - Data Center
🇺🇸 United States
Iron Mountain 🇺🇸 United States
Lead end-to-end design execution for major data center developments and complex operational upgrades. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and external consultants to ensure technical decisions align with safety, resilience, and sustainability goals.
Project Design Manager (Canada or USA)
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Primero 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Coordinate all drafting and engineering matters to ensure multi-disciplinary teams deliver projects on time and within budget. Ensure technical integrity, quality of design outputs, and compliance with legislation and client requirements.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will coordinate multi-disciplinary design delivery across project stages to ensure compliance with standards, budgets, and schedules. They are responsible for managing design consultants, resolving technical clashes, and maintaining effective governance through rigorous reporting and stakeholder communication.
Lead Visual / UI Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Rmg 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the visual evolution of an existing design system to modernize its look and feel while incorporating AI-driven interaction models. Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align on concepts and hand off designs to engineering teams for implementation.
Design Manager - Construction
🇺🇸 Rossmoor, California, United States
Erickson-hall Construction Co. 🇺🇸 Rossmoor, California, United States
The Design Manager leads the entire design-build process from concept through construction, ensuring projects meet schedule, budget, and technical requirements. They coordinate between design teams, subcontractors, and construction staff to optimize constructability and manage contractual obligations.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Clera 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
You will lead product design, branding, and team direction while working directly with founders and engineering to ship daily. The role involves hands-on design work, conducting customer interviews, and maintaining design systems across three core product areas.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ormond Beach, Florida, United States
Hudson's Furniture 🇺🇸 Ormond Beach, Florida, United States
The Design Manager is responsible for achieving monthly sales goals by guiding clients through furniture and décor selections. This includes conducting in-home visits and building lasting client relationships to create personalized living spaces.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ormond Beach, Florida, United States
Hudson's Furniture 🇺🇸 Ormond Beach, Florida, United States
The Design Manager is responsible for achieving sales goals while guiding clients through personalized furniture and décor selections. They will build lasting relationships, conduct in-home visits, and provide an exceptional customer experience from consultation to project completion.
Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will coordinate the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across infrastructure projects to ensure compliance with standards and budgets. They are responsible for managing design consultants, monitoring project milestones, and resolving technical queries or constructability issues.
Lead Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Wasael Property Management 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead the end-to-end design management process for major projects, ensuring technical compliance and commercial viability from concept to handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage external consultants, and ensure design solutions align with project objectives and regulatory requirements.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Puffy 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. Partner with the CRO team to implement high-volume, high-quality design variants that drive conversion lift.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Puffy 🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. You will manage a team of three as a player-coach to increase delivery speed and conversion lift for a billion-dollar D2C brand.
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.