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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, 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 ensuring alignment with project budgets and statutory requirements.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept to handover to ensure compliant and buildable outcomes. Manage multidisciplinary design teams, statutory approvals, and the integration of architectural and engineering documentation.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover. They are responsible for ensuring design documentation is compliant, buildable, and aligned with project objectives and commercial drivers.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover. They are responsible for ensuring design documentation is compliant, buildable, and commercially aligned while managing multidisciplinary teams and project stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover. They are responsible for ensuring design documentation is compliant, buildable, and aligned with project budgets and commercial objectives.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process across all project phases to ensure buildable, compliant, and commercially aligned outcomes. They are responsible for managing multidisciplinary design teams, overseeing statutory approvals, and ensuring design documentation meets project objectives and quality standards.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead and manage the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover while ensuring compliance and buildability. Coordinate multidisciplinary design teams and manage project-specific design plans to achieve key milestones and statutory approvals.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process across all project phases to ensure buildable, compliant, and commercially aligned outcomes. They are responsible for managing multidisciplinary design teams, overseeing statutory approvals, and ensuring design documentation meets project objectives and quality standards.
Design Manager (Transportation P3 / Alternative Delivery)
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead technical reviews and multidisciplinary design integration for large-scale transportation projects to ensure high-quality, constructible solutions. Coordinate across engineering disciplines to identify technical risks and manage subconsultants to ensure efficient project delivery.
Regional Design Manager
🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Sisk Group 🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead and manage the regional design function for data center projects, ensuring solutions meet client expectations and statutory requirements. Oversee technical governance, resource planning, and the integration of sustainability and digital standards across the business unit.
Design Manager (Owners Representative) - Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid)
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Kalcon 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Lead multi-disciplinary design coordination for hyperscale data center builds as an Owner's Representative from concept through construction. Serve as the primary liaison between project management and A/E teams to ensure timely, cost-aware delivery and design clarity.
Design Manager (Owners Representative) - Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid)
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Kalcon 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary design coordination for hyperscale data center projects from concept through construction administration. They will act as the Owner's Representative to ensure schedule adherence, design clarity, and effective communication between project management and A/E teams.
Creative Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sagacity 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the creation of on-brand visual content, storyboards, and presentations for pitch documents and client deliverables. Own and maintain the company's brand guidelines while providing creative direction and quality control across the business.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Coordinate multidisciplinary detailed design activities for water and wastewater infrastructure projects to ensure they are safe, buildable, and effective. Manage design packages, technical interfaces, and assurance requirements while collaborating with construction and commissioning teams.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Coordinate multidisciplinary detailed design activities for water and wastewater infrastructure to ensure they are safe, buildable, and effective. Manage design packages, technical interfaces, and assurance requirements while collaborating with construction and commissioning teams.
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.