Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
Design Manager
South Korea, Seoul
Ralph Lauren South Korea, Seoul
Oversee the design and execution of Ralph Lauren shop-in-shops, temporary stores, and renovations across the JKA region. Lead the development of architectural drawing sets and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure brand vision is delivered.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Hill International 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
The Design Manager oversees the planning, coordination, and monitoring of all design activities throughout the project lifecycle. They ensure that architectural, structural, and specialist designs meet quality, budget, and regulatory standards.
Customer Insights and Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
V/line 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the Customer Insights and Design function to translate passenger feedback and research into actionable improvements. Design and deliver initiatives that support the Passenger Experience Improvement Plan and embed customer-centered ways of working across the organization.
Design Manager - Infrastructure (Saudi National)
🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will coordinate multi-disciplinary design delivery across infrastructure projects to ensure compliance with standards, budgets, and schedules. They will also manage design consultants, monitor submissions for quality, and facilitate the resolution of technical queries and cross-disciplinary clashes.
UK & Europe Regional Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Barclays 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and execute capital projects including workspace, real estate, and physical asset security upgrades across the UK and Europe. Lead the design vision and delivery of workplace environments while ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and compliant with regulations.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Galway, Ireland
Sisk Group 🇮🇪 Galway, Ireland
Manage design teams and departments within a modular and MMC environment to ensure high-quality production of structural drawings. Coordinate with clients and internal departments to meet design goals, manage budgets, and mentor team members.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Sisk Group 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Manage design consultants, sub-consultants, and sub-contractors to ensure the timely delivery of design information for site execution. Provide guidance and mentorship to design coordinators while managing design requirements for public realm and highways schemes.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Sisk Group 🇬🇧 Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the delivery of effective design for a large-scale veterinary college, overseeing the pre-construction and construction design processes. Coordinate between clients, design teams, and internal operations to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sisk Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the delivery of effective design across large-scale projects, overseeing the development of buildings and facades while ensuring regulatory compliance. Act as the primary link between clients, design consultants, and internal construction and commercial teams.
Design Manager - Civil (EXPO)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bechtel Corporation 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage civil design activities and coordinate subcontracted design entities to deliver the EXPO 2030 project requirements. Review project drawings and specifications for constructability and regulatory conformance while providing progress reports to project management.
Assistant Design Manager
🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Exyte Gmbh 🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
The Assistant Design Manager will steer and optimize high-tech facility design projects by managing engineering budgets and scheduling deliverables. They are responsible for facilitating coordination across engineering teams and ensuring all documentation meets contractual and regulatory standards.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Belfast City, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Mivan Ltd 🇬🇧 Belfast City, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Lead and manage design teams to coordinate the design process from conception to completion across multiple construction projects. Ensure designs are buildable and efficient while managing budgets, timelines, and integration between design and manufacturing teams.
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.