Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Design Manager (Building Services)
🇬🇧 Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Wsp 🇬🇧 Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary building services design teams to ensure technical quality, compliance, and efficient delivery across major projects. Act as the central point of integration between MEP, structural, and architectural disciplines while managing design programmes, risks, and stakeholder relationships.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Maidenhead, SL6 1QB, United Kingdom
Avk-seg 🇬🇧 Maidenhead, SL6 1QB, United Kingdom
Lead and oversee the design and implementation of Standby projects from sales handover to service handover. Manage a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project execution meets client requirements and industry regulations.
Design Manager (Industrial)
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Brasfield & Gorrie, Llc 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager leads project teams through the design and preconstruction phases to ensure alignment on scope, schedule, and budget. They facilitate collaboration between owners, design teams, and trade partners while mentoring staff to ensure effective project execution.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Brasfield & Gorrie, Llc 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Design Manager leads project teams by facilitating collaboration between owners, designers, and trade partners to ensure scope, schedule, and budget alignment. They are responsible for mentoring team members and guiding the design process from preconstruction through to construction operations.
Senior Design Manager (Industrial)
🇺🇸 Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Brasfield & Gorrie, Llc 🇺🇸 Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager leads project teams through the design and preconstruction phases to ensure alignment on scope, schedule, and budget. They facilitate collaboration between owners, design teams, and trade partners while mentoring staff to ensure effective project execution.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
The Project Design Manager leads and inspires design teams to execute projects from the proposal phase through closeout, with a specific emphasis on process engineering. They are responsible for managing project schedules, financial performance, and ensuring compliance with contract requirements.
Senior Design Manager - Spain
🇪🇸 Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Microsoft 🇪🇸 Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Manage the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for greenfield and brownfield datacenter projects in Spain and EMEA. Lead the delivery of architectural and engineering designs while coordinating internal resources and external consultants.
Senior Design Manager - Vaasa
🇫🇮 Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Microsoft 🇫🇮 Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Manage the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for greenfield, brownfield, and retrofit datacenter projects. Lead internal and external resources to deliver technical due diligence, permitting, and core infrastructure design.
Head of Design
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Froda 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
The Head of Design will own Froda's full visual expression, ensuring consistency across brand and product touchpoints. They will lead the design strategy, manage the design system, and coach designers to drive business growth and high-quality user experiences.
Assistant Design Manager
🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Exyte Gmbh 🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
The Assistant Design Manager will oversee and coordinate all design activities, including managing engineering budgets and project schedules. They are responsible for ensuring technical standards are met, facilitating communication across teams, and managing documentation processes.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Cap Resourcing Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves supporting the delivery of major healthcare projects by managing project controls, stakeholder coordination, and commercial performance. You will ensure projects are delivered efficiently and in line with client expectations within a multidisciplinary design studio.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Walls 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical management of building projects and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. They must manage design teams and third parties while ensuring project quality and commercial return.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Willmott Dixon 🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
The Design Manager is responsible for overseeing the development and control of design phases from concept to construction documentation. They collaborate with stakeholders and consultants to ensure buildability, quality, and compliance with statutory regulations.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hindmarsh 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the design management process for high-rise residential projects from tender through to construction completion. Manage consultant engagements, authority approvals, and coordinate with technical teams to ensure efficient design outcomes.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Novax Recruitment Group 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead complex industrial infrastructure and tool-installation projects from early concept through the IFC design stages. Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and external partners to align design activities with procurement and construction schedules.
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.