Design Leadership Jobs
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High Senior Design Manager (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Aecom 🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
The Design Manager is responsible for the comprehensive coordination and management of interdisciplinary project teams across all phases. This includes overseeing construction costs, schedules, and contractual obligations while maintaining proactive communication with clients and stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Accenture 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the end-to-end design and development of scalable, outcome-driven learning experiences across various digital and instructor-led formats. Manage design teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders while utilizing learning analytics to ensure high-quality delivery and business impact.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Accenture In India 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead end-to-end instructional and learning experience design for digital, blended, and instructor-led programs, from needs analysis and curriculum mapping through development and continuous improvement. Manage design teams, vendors, stakeholders, project delivery, and quality, using learning analytics and emerging technologies to improve learning outcomes and business impact.
Category Design Manager Oral Health
🇺🇸 New Jersey, United States of America
Haleon 🇺🇸 New Jersey, United States of America
Lead the creative strategy and visual brand experience across the oral health category, developing brand systems, distinctive assets, packaging principles, and cohesive consumer and healthcare professional experiences across channels. Guide cross-functional teams and agency partners, influence innovation and business decisions, and establish creative standards that strengthen brand equity and design quality.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Recruitment Partners Inc. 🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lead and support design coordinators, coordinate schedules and priorities across internal and third-party design teams, and review external design work as needed. Support tender planning and resource allocation, improve processes, communicate with clients, and monitor progress to ensure timely delivery of design packages.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Disturbia 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead, support, and develop a team of ten designers while overseeing operational performance and workflow. They are responsible for translating creative vision into actionable priorities and ensuring design output aligns with commercial goals and critical-path deadlines.
Assistant Design Manager, FP
🇺🇸 Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Ahern 🇺🇸 Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Oversee quality control of fire protection design team deliverables and provide design support, potentially supervising one or two direct reports. Ensure fabrication documents are fitter-friendly and comply with applicable codes, project requirements, and company standards, while mentoring and training designers and collaborating with the Design Manager and organizational leaders.
Design Manager - Illinois Tollway
🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Wsp In The U.s. 🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Lead design quality and technical standards across the Illinois Tollway program, advising leadership on complex engineering issues, design risks, exceptions, and practical innovations. Manage and develop multidisciplinary staff, coordinate with stakeholders and technical specialists, and guide standards, quality processes, and continuous improvement.
Design Manager - Illinois Tollway
🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Wsp In The U.s. 🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Lead design quality and technical standards across the Illinois Tollway program, advising leadership and coordinating multidisciplinary design teams. Develop and improve design guidance, oversee technical reviews and staff development, and promote practical innovations and consistent engineering decisions.
Tool Install Design Manager, Peoria, AZ - Semiconductor
🇺🇸 Peoria, Arizona, United States of America
World Wide Professional Solutions 🇺🇸 Peoria, Arizona, United States of America
Lead and integrate engineering and design activities for semiconductor tool installation, ensuring alignment between manufacturing equipment and facility utility systems. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to manage design deliverables, resolve technical conflicts, and support construction through startup.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Bridgestone Americas 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Manage architectural and engineering design, due diligence, construction documentation, permitting, and third-party design reviews for new, remodeled, and expanded retail locations. Lead related projects through construction completion, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, and oversee project schedules, budgets, consultants, and design standards.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions are safe, compliant, coordinated, buildable, and sustainable. Manage design reviews, assurance, risks, changes, technical queries, stakeholder relationships, and value engineering to meet programme, cost, quality, and handover objectives.
Expression of Interest - Design Manager
🇬🇧 Crewe, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Sir Robert Mcalpine 🇬🇧 Crewe, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Manage design development for the new hospital, ensuring technically compliant, cost-efficient solutions that meet client needs and Employer's Requirements. Assess design quality and construction suitability, identify value improvements and risks, and collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver compliant solutions.
Lead, Design Systems & Design Operations
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cibc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the strategy, governance, roadmap, and ongoing evolution of the Wealth design system, including reusable components, patterns, tokens, theming, and cross-platform standards. Establish scalable design operations and partner with Product and Technology teams to improve implementation, accessibility, quality, reuse, and AI-assisted and design-to-code workflows.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Aylin White 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design development for new data centre buildings and major infrastructure upgrades, managing and challenging multidisciplinary teams across MEP, civil, structural, architectural, controls, and specialist disciplines. Coordinate with delivery and operations teams through design, construction, commissioning, and handover, while providing technical leadership and supporting junior Design Managers.
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.