Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)
🇳🇱 Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Haskoning 🇳🇱 Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Manage the scope, budget, and contract documents for mission-critical data centre projects while coordinating multidisciplinary teams. Lead design solutions and communicate innovative ideas to clients across the EMEA region.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Canada
Ehvert Mission Critical - A Salas O'brien Company 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead multidisciplinary design teams in the delivery of complex hyperscale and enterprise data center projects from proposal through construction support. Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, and client relationships while ensuring high-quality technical standards.
Design Manager - Water/Wastewater
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Lead multi-discipline design teams in the complete lifecycle of industrial wastewater treatment projects from conceptualization to construction. Manage project scope, schedule, and budget while ensuring technical excellence and regulatory compliance.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States
The Senior Design Manager leads and inspires design teams to execute project management for large or complex projects from proposal through closeout. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, financial performance, and client relationships while ensuring compliance with contract requirements.
Global C&I Design Manager (3-month Fixed-Term/Remote)
🌍 Remote
Generation 🌍 Remote
The Design Manager is responsible for planning activity mapping, developing high-level curriculum materials, and managing external contractors to write session plans. They will also facilitate stakeholder communication and support the implementation of programs across global affiliates.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver complex water sector projects from initial concept to detailed design. Act as the technical lead collaborating with Project Managers to ensure service excellence and best value for major UK clients.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver water sector projects from initial concept to detailed design. Act as the technical lead collaborating with Project Managers to ensure service excellence and best value for major UK clients.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver water sector projects from initial concept to detailed design. Act as the technical lead collaborating with Project Managers to ensure service excellence and best value for major UK clients.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver water sector projects from initial concept to detailed design. Act as the technical lead collaborating with Project Managers to ensure service excellence and best value for major UK clients.
Head of Design, Creative Studio
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Head of Design will define design excellence and build the practice, systems, and culture across Adobe's creative, content, and experiences. They will lead design teams, set art direction for global campaigns, and integrate AI-native workflows into the creative process.
DC Design Manager for Region (AMER), DCDE - AMER
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Lead project teams to deliver high-quality, globally consistent data center designs within budget and schedule constraints. Manage design consultants, coordinate cross-disciplinary decisions, and drive standardization and automation across global infrastructure projects.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lawrence Harvey 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Head of Design will own the end-to-end design process, focusing on product design, UI, and UX. They will collaborate with founders and engineers to take ambiguous problems from initial concept through to launch.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process across all project phases to ensure compliant, buildable, and commercially aligned outcomes. Manage multidisciplinary design teams and consultants while overseeing statutory approvals and design documentation.
Architectural Technologist / Design Manager
🇮🇪 Navan, County Meath, Ireland
Macdonald & Company 🇮🇪 Navan, County Meath, Ireland
Lead the production of detailed architectural drawings and technical specifications while coordinating interdisciplinary teams. Manage project delivery from inception to handover, overseeing site activities, schedules, and BCAR compliance.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept to handover to ensure buildable and commercially aligned outcomes. Manage multidisciplinary design teams, statutory approvals, and the integration of architectural and engineering documentation.
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.