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Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya Investment Company 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. They are responsible for managing consultant teams, ensuring compliance with design standards, and integrating public realm requirements with wider infrastructure programs.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya Investment Company 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. They are responsible for managing consultant teams, ensuring compliance with design standards, and integrating public realm requirements with wider infrastructure programs.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Dataiku 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the global design team to shape and evolve the Dataiku brand across all digital, physical, and experiential touchpoints. Partner with marketing and executive leadership to ensure a cohesive visual identity and integrate AI tools into creative workflows.
Design Manager - Edinburgh
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams from tender stage through to project completion for mixed-use residential developments. Manage external consultants, ensure compliance with budgets and quality standards, and optimize buildability and project efficiency.
Design Manager - Glasgow
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Manage the design process from concept to completion, coordinating external consultants and multidisciplinary teams to deliver cost-effective solutions. Ensure compliance with budgets, programmes, and quality standards while managing technical queries and statutory approvals.
Head Of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Harmony Fire 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and establish the design function for the Building Fabric division, overseeing technical quality and compliance for passive fire and building fabric works. Manage a team of designers and surveyors while collaborating with pre-construction and delivery teams to ensure buildable and competitively priced designs.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Dataiku 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead the global design team to shape the Dataiku brand identity across all marketing, product, and event touchpoints. This involves balancing strategic brand leadership with hands-on creative direction while fostering a high-performing, collaborative team environment.
Design Manager / Design Director / Head of Design
🇧🇭 Bahrain
Design Daily 🇧🇭 Bahrain
Lead the organization's design strategy and creative direction to ensure visual and product experiences align with business objectives. Manage design teams, establish quality standards, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver consistent brand assets and user experiences.
Design Manager, Europe
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sazerac Company 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the visual brand building and retail design process for over 40 priority brands across Europe. Manage internal creative teams and external vendors to deliver assets for off-premise, on-premise, and eCommerce channels.
Design Manager, Europe
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sazerac Company 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead visual brand building and retail design processes across multiple marketing platforms for a portfolio of over 40 brands. They are responsible for managing external vendor relationships, mentoring team members, and refining cross-functional processes to support global market expansion.
Lead Design Manager, for COWI in North America
🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Cowi 🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Oversee and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities for major underground and infrastructure projects, specifically supporting the Fraser River Tunnel Project. Act as the central point of design integration, managing interfaces, risks, and client relations to ensure compliant and safe delivery.
Lead Design Manager, for COWI in North America
🇨🇦 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cowi 🇨🇦 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Oversee and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities for major underground and infrastructure projects, specifically supporting the Fraser River Tunnel Project. Act as the central point of design integration, managing interfaces, risks, and client liaison to ensure compliant and safe delivery.
Regional Design Manager (GCNA) PHL
🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Cushman & Wakefield 🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Lead the design delivery and governance for the bank's retail and commercial portfolio across Greater China and North Asia. Ensure all projects align with global workplace standards, business strategies, and local building codes.
Design Manager
🇳🇴 Kristiansand, Agder, Norway
Mercury 🇳🇴 Kristiansand, Agder, Norway
The Design Manager acts as a Project Manager for design, controlling scope, budgets, and schedules from project startup to the As-Built stage. They lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate with consultants, subcontractors, and clients to ensure timely delivery of design deliverables.
Design Manager - West Midlands
🇬🇧 Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 Coventry, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead design and technical teams to oversee permanent and temporary works for projects and tenders across the Midlands. Key duties include managing design programmes, ensuring buildability, and fulfilling Designer duties under CDM Regulations.
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.