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Design Manager - Service Design & User Experience (UX)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Caterpillar Inc. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the Service Design strategy and multidisciplinary teams responsible for journey architecture, design and experience operations, accessibility governance, and experience measurement. Establish scalable processes and standards, use customer and employee insights to guide improvements, and align experience initiatives with business goals.
Junior Design Manager - Riga, Latvia (f/m/d)
🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Deutsche Bahn 🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Manage local road design, hydrological design, and survey production, including defining and coordinating actions, delegating work, and reviewing and presenting outcomes. Support the Design Manager with technical reviews, reports, configuration and change management, BIM/CAD coordination, design-status reporting, and technical risk management.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mpa 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Manage the design process to meet contract programs, procurement lead times, construction dates, and client budgets while preserving design intent. Advise clients and project teams on design options, risks, innovation, and value management, and build client confidence through technical expertise and thought leadership.
Contract Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Ascension 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Lead category negotiation strategies and manage contracts from development through performance review, using market research and data to improve value and align with organizational objectives. Engage clinical, operational, and supplier stakeholders, communicate relevant contract and product information, and manage associate hiring, development, and performance.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Actalent 🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Lead the design process from preconstruction through construction, managing schedules, deliverables, design changes, risks, and consultant performance. Coordinate owners, design consultants, trade partners, and construction teams to align design with project goals, budgets, procurement, and field needs.
Design Manager - Data Centers
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Aecom 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Lead data center due diligence and multidisciplinary design projects from planning through construction administration, ensuring quality, scope, budget, and schedule requirements are met. Manage design resources and client relationships, oversee reviews and change management, and develop project plans and proposals.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stv 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead architectural design and client coordination from programming and conceptual design through documentation and construction administration, partnering with Project Designers, Project Architects, and consultants. Manage design schedules, interdisciplinary deliverables, reviews, scope changes, and team coordination while supporting project management, proposals, and staff development.
Growth Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Loadsmart 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Own conversion and growth across Loadsmart’s product websites, setting targets, running experiments, analyzing funnel data, and improving visitor journeys. Lead website migration and operations, build AI-powered tools and workflows, advance visual identity and product storytelling, and manage freelance creative and development talent.
Creative Design Manager - Greek Speaking
🇲🇹 Malta
Entain 🇲🇹 Malta
Lead and mentor an in-house design team, providing creative direction and delivering integrated visual work across digital, commercial, in-product, and CRM channels. Establish design standards, manage workloads and cross-functional processes, use AI tools to support creative production, and report on team activity and results.
Growth Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Loadsmart 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
You will own website conversion and growth strategy across product sites by managing testing programs, user journeys, and AI-powered operations. Additionally, you will lead visual identity initiatives and manage a team of freelancers to deliver high-converting creative assets.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Bogota)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Build and maintain Figma design systems for multiple distinct client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable component libraries. Create documentation and developer handoffs that enable implementation without clarification and keep Figma systems aligned with code.
Global Instructional Design Manager
🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
3m 🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
Lead, coach, and develop a global instructional design team while managing learning projects from analysis through evaluation and aligning priorities and outcomes with business stakeholders. Establish workflows and quality standards, oversee curricula and learning assets, and use feedback, data, and emerging technologies to improve learning effectiveness and efficiency.
Design Manager (Owner's Representative / Architect)
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Moca Systems, Inc. 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Manage planning and design activities for complex construction projects across project definition, procurement, pre-construction, bidding, and construction, keeping project teams aligned with the owner's vision and implementation plan. Coordinate with clients, stakeholders, architects, contractors, and project leadership; monitor cost, schedule, and quality; and support meetings, workshops, proposals, and field reviews.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stv 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design of architecture projects, serving as the primary client contact and coordinating between internal teams and consultants. They are responsible for managing the design schedule, overseeing technical documentation, and ensuring project milestones are met.
Digital Design Manager - Structural Engineering
🇺🇸 West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America
Jezerinac Group, Pllc 🇺🇸 West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America
The Digital Design Manager oversees all BIM and contract document production, ensuring deliverables are accurate, coordinated, and compliant with firm standards. They are responsible for scheduling resources, managing BIM execution plans, and mentoring production staff to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
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.