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Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bmo 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager leads a team of product and content designers to create intuitive digital experiences for BMO.com while fostering cross-functional partnerships. They are responsible for guiding projects from discovery to delivery, coaching team members, and ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
Design Manager - Civil Engineering - Northern Ireland
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the multi-disciplinary design process for civil engineering projects from concept through to construction and handover. Act as the central interface between design, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective solutions.
Design Manager - Civil Engineering - Hereford
🇬🇧 Hereford, England, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 Hereford, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams from concept through to construction and handover for a major highways development. Act as the central interface between design, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective project outcomes.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
Anglian Water @one Alliance 🇬🇧 Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver design solutions for water non-infrastructure projects. Oversee project planning, health and safety compliance, and team development while driving innovation and continuous improvement.
MEP Design Manager - Data Centres Construction
🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Turner & Townsend 🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
The MEP Design Manager will lead the design management plan and coordinate across multidisciplinary teams including civil, structural, and MEP engineering. They are responsible for managing design risks, facilitating design reviews, and ensuring all deliverables meet project requirements and safety standards.
Head of Design - Tiles
🇮🇹 Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Love Pangolin 🇮🇹 Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Lead the end-to-end design and development of premium tiles and surfaces from trend sensing to commercial launch. Manage the design studio and collaborate with R&D and manufacturing to ensure design fidelity and commercial success.
Analog IC Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ic Resources 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and develop a team of analog and mixed-signal IC design engineers while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. Provide technical oversight on product architecture and align engineering resources with business objectives.
Design Manager (H/F)
🇫🇷 Guyancourt, Ile-de-France, France
Equans France 🇫🇷 Guyancourt, Ile-de-France, France
The Design Manager coordinates technical studies for large-scale data center projects during both the commercial and execution phases. Key duties include managing external design offices, ensuring technical consistency of offers, and overseeing the transfer of projects to the construction team.
Senior Deputy Design Manager - Municipal Projects
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Turner & Townsend 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Senior Deputy Design Manager will direct and support project managers in overseeing CMARs and AEs throughout the design, preconstruction, and construction phases of municipal projects. They are responsible for managing civil scopes, maintaining project documentation, and ensuring client services are delivered at the highest level.
Design Manager (H/F)
🇫🇷 Guyancourt, Ile-de-France, France
Equans France 🇫🇷 Guyancourt, Ile-de-France, France
The Design Manager oversees the technical development and execution of large-scale data center projects, ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and budgetary constraints. They also act as a key technical lead during the commercial phase, coordinating internal teams and external consultants to assemble competitive project offers.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Clera 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
You will lead product design, branding, and the design team while working hands-on to shape the user experience. This involves collaborating with engineering and product teams to ship features frequently and maintain high design standards.
Design Manager | Dundalk
🇮🇪 Dundalk, Leinster, Ireland
Glanua 🇮🇪 Dundalk, Leinster, Ireland
Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to bring water and wastewater infrastructure projects from the brief stage through detailed design to construction. Act as the primary client liaison to develop innovative engineered solutions while managing budgets, schedules, and safety standards.
Project Design Manager, Central Labs
🇺🇸 Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇺🇸 Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States
The Project Design Manager reviews clinical trial protocols to define laboratory responsibilities and configures study databases, collection flow charts, and kit specifications. They also provide support to project managers regarding budgetary items, system design requirements, and protocol discrepancies.
Design Systems Lead (Remote LATAM)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
The Design Systems Lead is responsible for building scalable token architectures and core component libraries in Figma for multiple client brands. They must document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote LATAM)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
The role involves building and owning client design systems by extracting patterns into working systems with tokens, variables, and core components. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
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.