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Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Aecom 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will lead the design function by developing strategic plans, overseeing design operations, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. They will also mentor team members and collaborate across departments to deliver high-quality design solutions that meet customer expectations.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Sweet Projects 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager leads design management across major projects, providing strategic oversight of performance, governance, and risk. They are responsible for managing design delivery from the bid stage through construction and handover while driving value engineering and stakeholder engagement.
Design Manager - Water / Wastewater Design
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Brown And Caldwell 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Design Manager will lead complex water and wastewater design projects while providing technical leadership and ensuring high-quality project outputs. They will collaborate with project managers to manage design scope, schedules, budgets, and cross-functional team coordination.
12 month Fixed Term Contract Marketing Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Mountain Warehouse 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creative direction and delivery of retail print campaigns across three brands and nine international markets. Manage a team of designers to ensure in-store communications are commercially effective and aligned with brand strategy.
Design Manager
🇯🇵 Japan
Dayone 🇯🇵 Japan
The Design Manager oversees the successful design and implementation of data center facilities through close collaboration with engineers, contractors, and clients. Key duties include providing technical leadership, ensuring quality control, and managing design documentation to meet industry standards.
Head of Design – Japan Data Center Development & Delivery
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Sovereign Ai 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
The Head of Design will lead the technical direction and full-lifecycle engineering of high-density AI data centers in Japan. This includes managing A&E partners, ensuring regulatory compliance, and building a multidisciplinary engineering team.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Galliford Try 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead the design process for projects, ensuring compliance with CDM 2015 and managing relationships with clients and subcontractors. They are responsible for identifying design risks, managing statutory processes, and monitoring the quality of design deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, England, United Kingdom
Ghd Group Pty Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead multidisciplinary teams on AMP8 water and wastewater projects, overseeing the design process from optioneering through to construction. They are responsible for coordinating technical interfaces, managing project risks, and ensuring high standards of quality and governance are maintained.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead and manage complex, multidisciplinary design programs, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, and budget. They are responsible for establishing design vision, coordinating technical interfaces, and managing stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
Lead PMC Design Manager | Relocation to Armenia
🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cpj Limited 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Lead and oversee all design-related activities for a major mixed-use development project in Armenia. Coordinate architects, engineers, and consultants to ensure technical delivery and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Hotel Development/ Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Urban Property Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design and development delivery of hotel projects from concept to handover. This includes managing HMA requirements, brand standards, FF&E procurement, and coordinating multi-disciplinary consultant teams.
Design Manager
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Dayone 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
The Design Manager is responsible for overseeing data center projects and ensuring the successful design and implementation of facilities. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders, including engineers and contractors, to deliver high-quality technical solutions.
Design Manager - Dublin, Ireland (f/m/d)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Deutsche Bahn 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities and integration throughout the project delivery lifecycle. Monitor progress against scope, budget, and program while facilitating communication between design teams, contractors, and clients.
Graphic Designer
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Agilegrid Solutions 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Lead and coordinate engineering projects from initiation to completion while ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to define project scope and implement corrective actions for risks.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Keka Hr 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Design Manager leads the Product Design team and oversees the development and execution of design projects. They ensure all designs align with company standards and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality 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.