Design Leadership Jobs
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Technical Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hubber 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design for each site from land appraisal through planning, tender, and construction, coordinating civil and electrical designers and ensuring packages are buildable, compliant, and cost-effective. Manage design risks and consultant performance, review contractor submissions and changes, and maintain design documentation through as-built drawings and the health and safety file.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Strabag 🇬🇧 Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design throughout the project lifecycle, managing deliverables, assurance, progress reporting, risks, and interfaces with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams. Support tender and project delivery through safe, practical, economical designs, quality checks, process improvements, staff development, and compliance with company procedures and applicable standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Strabag 🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the design process from pre-construction through project completion, ensuring safe, compliant, buildable, sustainable, and commercially effective solutions. Coordinate design teams and stakeholders, maintain design registers and assurance processes, monitor progress, manage risks, and support tendering and project delivery.
Design Manager – Energy & Water Resources
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Arup 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams and oversee design delivery, technical assurance, and quality standards for energy, water, and resources projects, particularly in the nuclear sector. Develop client and stakeholder relationships, mentor colleagues, and support business development through bids, technical proposals, and client engagement.
Design Manager – Energy & Water Resources
🇬🇧 Whitehaven, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom
Arup 🇬🇧 Whitehaven, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams and oversee design delivery, technical assurance, and quality for energy, water, and resources projects, particularly in the nuclear sector. Build client and stakeholder relationships, mentor colleagues, and support business development through bids, proposals, and client engagement.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Define and drive the design vision and product strategy for a product pillar, while producing high-quality design work and evolving the design system and processes. Build and mentor a small design team, and influence product, engineering, and data partners to make design a strategic driver.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tennr 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for Validate and Workspace management, improving operational speed and accuracy, and later take ownership of Patient Hub. Lead customer discovery, create scalable patterns for complex workflows, prototype and ship solutions with product and engineering, and iterate based on user feedback.
Sr Product Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Cohere Health 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead end-to-end design for complex healthcare product areas, from problem framing and research through polished delivery, prototyping, and iteration. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, data, and operations teams to create accessible, scalable experiences, contribute to the design system, and use AI tools to improve design workflows.
Design & Engineering Lead (Electrical - Data Centres) - Dublin
🇮🇪 Leinster, Ireland
Eaton 🇮🇪 Leinster, Ireland
Lead electrical design for data centre projects from concept through detailed design, construction support, and closeout, while providing hands-on technical leadership and reviewing design deliverables. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage project resources and quality, advise customers and stakeholders, and support value engineering, site visits, installation, and commissioning.
Design & Engineering Lead (Electrical - Data Centres) - Dublin
🇮🇪 Ireland
Eaton 🇮🇪 Ireland
Lead electrical design for data centre projects from concept through detailed design, construction support, and closeout, while providing hands-on technical leadership and reviewing design deliverables. Coordinate engineers and multidisciplinary stakeholders, manage project resources and quality, advise customers, and support value engineering, site visits, installation, and commissioning.
Design & Engineering Lead (Electrical - Data Centres) - London
🇬🇧 Slough, England, United Kingdom
Eaton 🇬🇧 Slough, England, United Kingdom
Lead electrical design for data centre projects from concept through detailed design, construction support, and closeout, while providing hands-on technical leadership and reviewing design deliverables. Coordinate engineers and multidisciplinary teams, manage project resources and quality, advise customers and stakeholders, and support value engineering, site visits, installation, and commissioning.
Design & Engineering Lead (Electrical - Data Centres) - London
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Eaton 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead electrical design for data centre projects from concept through detailed design, construction support, and closeout, while providing hands-on technical leadership and reviewing design deliverables. Coordinate engineers and multidisciplinary teams, guide customer-facing technical decisions, and support site visits, value engineering, quality standards, and successful project delivery.
Senior UX Designer / Frontendutvecklare
🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Knowit Sweden 🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Combine UX design and frontend development to create engaging, effective digital experiences, working closely with creative colleagues and developers. Lead client engagements and delivery, build trusted client relationships, guide creative processes, and identify opportunities to improve solutions and grow the business.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Anglian Water @one Alliance 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the engineering design delivery for a portfolio of water recycling and wastewater projects while managing project plans, costs, and risks. Direct multi-disciplinary teams to implement innovative, sustainable solutions while ensuring compliance with health, safety, and CDM regulations.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Underdog: Verified Engineers. Interview-ready. Searching Confidentially. And Companies Apply To You 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead product design from concept through execution, creating intuitive and consistent experiences across platforms using research, wireframes, prototypes, and mockups. Maintain the design system and collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams to turn business requirements into effective design solutions.
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.