Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Northampton, West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
Tilbury Douglas 🇬🇧 Northampton, West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design function on complex construction projects, ensuring strategic design leadership from bid stage to project completion. Drive design excellence and innovation while managing relationships with clients and stakeholders.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇬🇧 Banbridge, BT32 3DB, United Kingdom
Alternative Heat Ltd 🇬🇧 Banbridge, BT32 3DB, United Kingdom
The Head of Design – Decarbonisation leads the development and delivery of MEP design strategies for large-scale decarbonisation projects. This includes managing a multidisciplinary team and ensuring compliance with regulations while driving the creation of net zero solutions.
Head of Design
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Kolon Sport (china) Co., Ltd. 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
The Head of Design will create seasonal design direction and lead designers to meet business targets. They will also be responsible for brand positioning and coordinating product R&D design and technical management.
Product Design Manager - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs and evaluate the quality produced by AI models. Help train models to better understand aesthetic quality and user-centered design.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Multiplex 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and manage the commercial and technical delivery of all design aspects for large scale commercial construction projects. This includes overseeing the internal Design Team and external consultants, managing the design procurement process, and ensuring the delivery of a cost-effective buildable design.
Design Manager (Joinery)
🇬🇧 Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Ernest Gordon Recruitment 🇬🇧 Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Manage the day-to-day design process across multiple joinery projects and produce detailed production drawings for bespoke joinery. Attend design meetings, site surveys, and client meetings as required, while supporting estimating and commercial teams during project tender stages.
Design Manager - Renewable and Utilities
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Consolidated Power Projects 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering high-voltage infrastructure and renewable energy projects. They will collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure designs are well-integrated and compliant with client and industry requirements.
Design Manager (Quản Lý Thiết Kế Đồ họa)
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Prudential Vietnam Assurance Private Ltd. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Creative Manager is responsible for translating project direction into visual concepts and ensuring adherence to brand guidelines. This role involves collaboration with various teams to meet project requirements and deadlines while maintaining visual integrity.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Falcon Green 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will oversee the design process from pre-construction to project delivery, ensuring quality and coordination among various project elements. This role involves managing design consultants and liaising with clients and project staff on design matters.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Ahmedabad, India
Livspace 🇮🇳 Ahmedabad, India
As a Customer Delivery Manager - Design, you will manage the design process for multiple projects through a team of designers. This includes ensuring productivity, conducting training, and managing customer relationships.
Product / Project Design Manager
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lbh Consultancy 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Product / Project Design Manager owns and drives the design management process, managing designers and ensuring the project meets commercial and technical targets during the concept design stages. They coordinate design efforts with internal and external stakeholders to ensure quality, timely delivery, and budget control.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Mendota Heights, MN 55120, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Mendota Heights, MN 55120, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and manage teams through all phases of design, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. They will also be accountable for project completion and contribute to the development of the Industrial Water Market Strategy.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sekisui House Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and develop a design team while managing the full design production workflow for home building projects. Ensure timely completion of pre-site design and detailing to support construction schedules and manage statutory approvals.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Vision Contracting 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager leads and manages the design process on construction projects from pre-construction to completion, ensuring timely and compliant design information. They act as the main point of contact for clients and coordinate with various stakeholders to mitigate design risks and support project delivery.
Design Manager (Japan)
🇯🇵 Japan
Stack Infrastructure 🇯🇵 Japan
The Design Manager will represent STACK at technical meetings and work closely with delivery teams to manage engineering and design consultants. They will also lead design reviews and ensure project requirements are met while fostering a culture of support and collaboration.
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.