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Business Consulting - Service Design Manager
🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
Ey 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
Lead product support operations and teams, maintaining product stability and service quality through incident management, escalations, and resolution. Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders on prioritization, performance reporting, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Ibague)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Build precise, reusable design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and core component libraries. Document systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them reliably.
Design Manager - Sports Infrastructure (Building Engineering)
🇦🇺 Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and integrate large multidisciplinary design teams to deliver complex sports infrastructure projects while acting as the primary client interface. Establish front-end design strategies, manage technical assurance processes, and ensure compliance with commercial and governance obligations.
Sr. Design Manager, Data Centers
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Sr. Design Manager leads multidisciplinary design teams to coordinate and integrate mission-critical data center projects, ensuring operational reliability and scalability. This role manages BIM processes, design RFI workflows, and quality assurance to bridge design intent with construction execution.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Leon)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Build token architectures and reusable component libraries in Figma for multiple client brands, using variables, modes, and semantic naming that work reliably with the build pipeline. Document each system so developers or automated pipelines can implement it without needing clarification.
Deputy Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Idom Consulting, Engineering, Architecture 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead architectural design projects and design-contract proposals from concept through completion, producing detailed drawings, plans, and 3D models. Ensure compliance with building codes, collaborate with project stakeholders, and mentor junior architects.
Deputy Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Idom, S.a.u. 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead and manage architectural design projects from concept to completion while ensuring compliance with building codes. Collaborate with stakeholders and mentor junior architects to achieve project objectives.
Design Manager - Landscape and Irrigation
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Wsp In The Middle East 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Manage landscape and irrigation design consultants and review concepts, public realm strategies, and technical proposals throughout project delivery. Coordinate design interfaces and stakeholders, monitor quality and programme, and support sustainability, water conservation, value engineering, and lifecycle cost optimization.
Electronic Product Design Manager
🇬🇧 Ashford, TN23 1QL, United Kingdom
Hūmia | Cabinet De Recrutement 🇬🇧 Ashford, TN23 1QL, United Kingdom
Design complete electronic and electromechanical products, taking them from concept through prototyping, testing, and industrialisation while integrating mechanical, electronic, usability, and manufacturing requirements. Lead a team of four engineers and technicians and collaborate with production, suppliers, and purchasing to bring products into manufacturing.
Head of Design
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Nuhome Furnishings 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead NuHome’s creative direction and design team, developing and curating curtain and upholstery collections, including artistic digital-print collections. Oversee exhibition stall design and execution, approve brand marketing content, and coordinate with catalogue teams, vendors, and partners.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Lead and coordinate design efforts from project pursuit and inception through construction and closeout, ensuring design decisions meet program, budget, schedule, quality, and sustainability requirements. Facilitate collaboration among clients, designers, builders, and project teams; manage design reviews and decision logs; and support construction-phase design issues and business development.
Design Manager - Water
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Wharton-smith 🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
The Design Manager leads planning, budgeting, risk analysis, and stakeholder engagement during the pursuit and preconstruction phases of water and wastewater projects. They collaborate closely with estimating and operations teams to ensure successful project delivery, constructability, and seamless transitions into construction.
Primary Design Manager
🇬🇧 Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Ge Vernova 🇬🇧 Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate global engineering teams to deliver high-quality primary plant designs for HV/EHV substation projects. Ensure all engineering outputs comply with regulatory standards, safety requirements, and project milestones throughout the lifecycle.
High Senior Design Manager (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Aecom 🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
The Design Manager is responsible for the comprehensive coordination and management of interdisciplinary project teams across all phases. This includes overseeing construction costs, schedules, and contractual obligations while maintaining proactive communication with clients and stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Accenture 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the end-to-end design and development of scalable, outcome-driven learning experiences across various digital and instructor-led formats. Manage design teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders while utilizing learning analytics to ensure high-quality delivery and business impact.
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.