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Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Flatirondragados 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead the design process between design firms and internal teams to ensure cost-effective and optimized construction designs. Manage design risks, track contract change orders, and coordinate design packages to maintain the construction schedule.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 St Neots, England, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 St Neots, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will ensure design excellence and quality standards are met across transportation, water, environment, and energy projects. Key duties include managing design programs, chairing review meetings, and coordinating between construction and design teams.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Walnut Creek, California, United States
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Walnut Creek, California, United States
Lead and grow a team of product designers to create intuitive AI-powered user experiences for a litigation platform. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define design strategy and ensure AI features are transparent and trustworthy.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States
Lead and grow a team of product designers to create intuitive, AI-powered user experiences for a legal litigation platform. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive design strategy and ensure AI features are transparent and trustworthy.
2026-2027 Design Leadership Development Program – Full Time and Summer Internship
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Designers are responsible for taking products from initial concept through production, including trend research and garment construction. Roles vary across apparel, technical, CAD, and graphic design to create high-quality products for lifestyle brands.
Design Manager
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Mercury 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Lead the architectural design development for data center buildings, ensuring compliance with client standards and local regulations. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage the integration of architectural requirements into BIM models for construction.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Flatiron Construction Corp 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Design Manager leads the design process between external firms and internal construction teams to ensure optimized, cost-effective, and constructible project designs. They are responsible for tracking design progress, managing contract change orders, and ensuring all design packages are submitted in compliance with project schedules and budgets.
Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Re/think 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Lead the design management function from concept to completion for ultra-luxury developments, managing international consultants and ensuring design quality. Act as the client's technical representative to coordinate all disciplines, manage authority compliance, and oversee construction-phase technical submissions.
Sales & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
California Closets 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
The Sales & Design Manager will lead, coach, and develop a team of Design Consultants to achieve sales goals and deliver exceptional customer experiences. This role involves analyzing sales data to drive growth, managing showroom operations, and fostering community relationships.
Sales & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
California Closets Of Tennessee 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Lead and coach a team of Design Consultants to drive sales growth and ensure exceptional customer experiences. Manage day-to-day administration, analyze sales data to improve conversion rates, and maintain the Nashville showroom.
Head of Design, Creative Studio
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Define and lead design excellence across Adobe's creative, content, and experiences, ensuring high-quality craft from global campaigns to everyday work. Establish AI-native design workflows and lead a multidisciplinary team of designers to maintain brand coherence and innovation.
Design Build Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Lead large-scale design-build and alternative delivery transportation infrastructure projects across the Midwest. Manage client relationships, oversee project documentation, and ensure deliverables meet quality standards and budget constraints.
Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Haskoning 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Manage the scope of work, design budgets, and contract documents for Mission Critical Facilities projects. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative and high-quality 3D design solutions for data centres.
Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)
🇪🇸 Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
Haskoning 🇪🇸 Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
Manage the scope of work, design budgets, and contract documents for Mission Critical Facilities projects. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality 3D design solutions and innovative ideas to clients.
Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)
🇨🇭 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Haskoning 🇨🇭 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Manage the scope of work, design budgets, and contract documents for Mission Critical Facilities projects. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative, high-quality 3D design solutions for data center clients.
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.