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Senior Womenswear Design Manager KUWAIT
🇪🇸 Spain
The Global Search Company 🇪🇸 Spain
The Senior Fashion Designer is responsible for developing commercially successful womenswear collections from concept to final product. This includes researching global trends, collaborating with production teams, and ensuring design integrity through fit sessions and sample reviews.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will coordinate multi-disciplinary design delivery across project stages to ensure compliance with standards, budgets, and schedules. They are responsible for managing design consultants, resolving technical clashes, and maintaining effective governance through rigorous reporting and stakeholder communication.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will coordinate the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across project stages to ensure compliance with standards, budgets, and schedules. They are responsible for managing design consultants, resolving technical queries, and maintaining effective governance through design trackers and reporting.
Arts and Design Manager
🇿🇦 City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Smd Technologies 🇿🇦 City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
The Art and Design Manager will lead the packaging design team, ensuring creative output meets brand standards and commercial requirements. They are responsible for reviewing artwork, managing project timelines, and mentoring designers to maintain high-quality production standards.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Rochester, New York, United States
Insero Talent Solutions 🇺🇸 Rochester, New York, United States
The Project Design Manager owns the design, engineering, and execution of projects from handoff to completion. This includes creating 3D fabrication models, managing project budgets, and coordinating between clients, architects, and the fabrication shop.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager coordinates the delivery of multi-disciplinary designs across various projects to ensure alignment with briefs, budgets, and schedules. They are responsible for managing design consultants, resolving technical clashes, and maintaining governance records.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Provides technical direction and management to design consultants for hospitality projects to ensure technical excellence and on-schedule completion. Oversees task order execution, manages design risks, and coordinates between design and construction phases.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Loughborough, England, United Kingdom
Caddick Construction Limited 🇬🇧 Loughborough, England, United Kingdom
Oversee the preconstruction phase of industrial and logistics projects to ensure designs meet client specifications and regulatory requirements. Collaborate with architects and engineers to manage budgets, timelines, and quality control procedures throughout the construction process.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hdr 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Design Manager leads and coordinates design delivery across multi-discipline project teams to ensure client requirements are translated into robust delivery plans. They manage the design programme, interfaces, and change control to ensure outputs are delivered safely, on time, and within budget.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Hdr 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design delivery across multi-discipline project teams to ensure client requirements are translated into robust delivery plans. Manage the design programme, interfaces, and change control to ensure outputs are delivered safely, on time, and within budget.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Hdr 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design delivery across multi-discipline project teams to ensure client requirements are translated into robust delivery plans. Manage the design programme, interfaces, and change control to deliver outputs safely, on time, and within budget.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Duruma, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Duruma, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will coordinate the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across assigned projects to ensure compliance with standards, budgets, and schedules. They are responsible for managing design consultants, monitoring submissions for quality, and resolving technical queries or design clashes.
Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Fletcher Piccolo Associates (fpa) 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Manage the full design process from pre-bid and tender stages through to detailed design and construction delivery. Lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate consultants to ensure designs are technically sound and commercially viable.
Design Manager / Senior Interior Designer (35,000 AED) (Dubai based) - Must have Jumeirah Hotel (Spa / Restaurant) experience
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Rig (recruitment International Group) 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Lead the interior design development of luxury hospitality projects, including hotels, spas, and restaurants, from concept through to site delivery. Coordinate with various consultants and contractors to ensure design quality and technical compliance.
Project Design Manager – Dublin
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Kirby Group Engineering 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Lead the delivery of large-scale, leading-edge engineering projects, specifically focusing on datacenter design and construction. Coordinate with multi-functional teams to ensure projects are completed on time, safely, 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.