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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Danish Athletics 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Manages multiple seismic, critical repair, and retrofit projects while supervising a team of design professionals through the review process. Ensures that architectural and engineering plans comply with District standards, budgetary requirements, and legal guidelines.
Principal Design Manager
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Microsoft 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
The Design Manager will oversee the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for datacenter projects across the APAC region, managing internal and external resources. They are responsible for facilitating the delivery of datacenter infrastructure from site due diligence through design, construction, and operational turnover.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Accenture Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver technically robust designs for hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation data centers. Responsibilities include overseeing the full design cycle from concept to construction, ensuring regulatory compliance and integrated technical solutions.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Ground Control 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the design function for landscape construction and civil engineering projects, ensuring solutions are buildable, compliant, and cost-effective. Act as the technical authority for design decisions, managing both internal teams and external consultants while overseeing temporary works and CDM compliance.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Ground Control 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate design activities across landscape construction and civil engineering projects, acting as the technical authority. They are responsible for managing internal and external design teams, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and overseeing project buildability and commercial objectives.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Maidenhead, SL6 1QB, United Kingdom
Avk-seg 🇬🇧 Maidenhead, SL6 1QB, United Kingdom
Lead and oversee the design and implementation of Standby projects from sales handover to service delivery. Manage a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project execution meets client requirements and industry regulations.
Creative Director (Creative Design Leadership)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Infosys 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead creative thinking, storytelling, and design direction for an internal agency within an IT MNC. Translate business problems into powerful creative work through strategic account planning and campaign development.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cordoba Corporation 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager oversees multidisciplinary design teams and manages capital improvement projects, focusing on seismic upgrades and critical repairs. They coordinate the design review process to ensure projects meet programmatic, budgetary, and regulatory requirements while collaborating with architects and stakeholders.
Occupancy Planner / Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Occupancy Planner / Design Manager will lead occupancy planning initiatives and provide design governance for retail branch projects to ensure alignment with business objectives. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create functional, brand-consistent environments while managing project lifecycles from programming through construction.
Expert Opportunity - Visual Design Manager ($70/hr, up to $1,400/week)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ethos 🇺🇸 United States of America
Create, evaluate, and refine AI-generated presentations and slide decks for a foundational AI lab. Focus on slide layout, template design, and brand-compliant production across core workflows.
Occupancy Planner / Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The role involves managing occupancy planning and retail design for a financial services client's branch portfolio to optimize space and customer engagement. Key duties include creating feasibility studies, enforcing design standards, and collaborating with architects and stakeholders from programming through construction.
Senior Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Lead integrated design management across multiple complex projects, ensuring alignment between schedule, cost, and constructability. Provide technical authority and mentorship to junior design managers while coordinating with construction teams to meet business objectives.
Senior Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
The Senior Integrated Design Manager provides technical leadership across multiple projects, integrating schedule, cost, and constructability early in the design process. They are responsible for mentoring staff, maintaining accountability for third-party design teams, and ensuring design decisions align with long-term business objectives.
Senior Design Manager (Building Services)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary Building Services design teams to deliver technically robust and compliant solutions for complex aviation projects. Manage design delivery plans, technical assurance processes, and stakeholder relationships to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Senior Design Manager (Building Services)
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary Building Services design teams to deliver technically robust and compliant solutions for major projects at Heathrow Airport. Manage design delivery plans, technical assurance processes, and stakeholder relationships to ensure projects are delivered 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.