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Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Evara Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager is responsible for leading the design process across Design Build projects, ensuring compliance with regulations and quality standards. They coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage design deliverables from tender to handover.
Design Manager
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kent Data Centres 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Design Manager will lead and manage multidisciplinary design teams for hyperscale and mission-critical data centre projects, overseeing the full design lifecycle from concept through construction. They will act as the primary technical liaison with various stakeholders and ensure compliance with local regulations and industry best practices.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jj Rhatigan & Company 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will manage and coordinate the design process across complex UK projects, ensuring that design information is compliant, buildable, and delivered on schedule. This includes engaging in pre-construction activities and leading the design process using Procore.
Design Manager - Workplace
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Gensler 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Lead and manage the full project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery from concept to completion. Act as the primary client interface, managing expectations and fostering long-term relationships.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Own the quality, consistency, and polish bar across the consumer and payments experience. Lead a small team of designers and researchers to enhance design integration into product discovery and drive measurable outcomes.
Design Manager- Data Center
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Jacobs 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
The Design Manager - Data Center engages in engineering management activities, coordinating with various stakeholders and mentoring team members to achieve project objectives. They are responsible for the successful delivery of Data Center projects and ensuring effective communication with all stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 St Ives, BH24 2LE, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 St Ives, BH24 2LE, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will collaborate with the Pre-Construction team to lead the design and delivery of water projects in the South Western Region. They will coordinate multidisciplinary inputs to develop integrated solutions and engage with stakeholders to secure buy-in for proposed solutions.
Design Manager (M&E - Energy & Decarbonisation))
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Twg Consulting 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the design process from project inception through to commissioning, ensuring robust and commercially viable designs. Act as the primary technical point of contact for clients and manage design programmes alongside Project Managers.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Enemix 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of HV/MV substation designs while ensuring compliance with safety and technical standards. Manage interfaces across various engineering disciplines and mentor engineering teams.
Design Manager (Japan)
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Stack Infrastructure Apac 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Lead the engineering and design process for hyperscale data centers in Japan, managing consultants and vendors to ensure technical requirements are met. Oversee design stage-gate reviews, procurement of long-lead equipment, and the implementation of continuous improvement based on lessons learned.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects across the UK and internationally, ensuring quality and compliance with contractual obligations. Responsibilities include managing sub-consultants, preparing contracts, and establishing design management procedures.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects. This includes managing teams through all phases of design and ensuring project quality and financial performance.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Imprint 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own the strategy, evolution, and execution of Imprint's design system while collaborating with various teams to enhance product development. This role involves mentoring a team and advocating for design systems across the organization.
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.