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Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with clients, project managers, and procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while facilitating collaboration and managing project risks.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with clients, project managers, and procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while facilitating collaboration and managing project risks.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with project managers, clients, stakeholders, procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while facilitating collaboration and managing project risks.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with clients, project managers, and procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while facilitating collaboration and managing project risks.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with the Project Manager and stakeholders, facilitate meetings, manage risks and changing priorities, and promote collaborative, high-quality design decisions.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate design with project management, procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while managing risks and promoting collaborative, high-quality design decisions.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with the project manager and stakeholders, facilitate meetings, manage risks and changing priorities, and promote collaborative, high-quality design decisions.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with clients, project managers, and procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while managing risks and promoting collaborative, high-quality design decisions.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 York, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 York, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with the project manager and stakeholders across procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams, while facilitating collaboration and managing project risks.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate internal and external multidisciplinary design teams for data centre projects, ensuring client scope, budget, resources, and schedules are met. Partner with the Arcadis Project Manager, engage clients and stakeholders, facilitate meetings, manage risks, and integrate design with procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with project managers, clients, stakeholders, and procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while facilitating workshops and managing project risks.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and integration of multidisciplinary data centre design projects, guiding internal and external teams to meet client scope, budget, resource, and schedule requirements. Coordinate with clients, project managers, and procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations teams while facilitating collaboration and managing project risks.
Design Manager
🇳🇴 3870 Fyresdal, Norway
Cts Group 🇳🇴 3870 Fyresdal, Norway
Lead design integration across civil, structural, architectural, and MEP disciplines to ensure safe and buildable hyperscale data center delivery. Manage design reviews, coordinate consultants, and control design changes while maintaining alignment with procurement and construction schedules.
Arada | Senior Design Manager, Dubai
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Arada 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Design Manager will oversee the design process for multiple projects from pre-concept through construction, ensuring alignment with project vision, budget, and schedule. They will lead internal teams and external consultants while coordinating with various departments to ensure technical compliance and successful project delivery.
Senior Design Manager - Defense Military projects
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Aecom 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Design Manager will oversee complex defense and military infrastructure projects, ensuring high-quality delivery from planning through construction. The role involves managing multidisciplinary teams to solve complex engineering challenges while maintaining alignment with client requirements.
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.