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Design Manager - Illinois Tollway
🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Wsp 🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead design excellence for the Illinois Tollway, overseeing multidisciplinary teams and ensuring technical standards are met across complex transportation projects. They will act as a trusted technical advisor, managing design quality, innovation, and stakeholder consensus to support the program's strategic objectives.
Head of Design Management
🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
United Infrastructure Ltd 🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop the UK Design Management team, overseeing resourcing, performance, and delivery of complex power transmission and distribution design projects. Ensure strong technical governance, safety, sustainability, commercial and risk management, while building client relationships and supporting business development.
Head of Design Management
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
United Infrastructure Ltd 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and develop the UK Design Management team, overseeing resourcing, performance, and delivery of complex power transmission and distribution projects. Provide design governance and senior escalation, while managing safety, sustainability, risk, commercial matters, client relationships, and business development.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hobbs London 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the seasonal creative direction and design of Hobbs collections, including colour palettes, prints, key shapes, fabrics, and product opportunities, balancing creativity with commercial needs. Partner with buying, merchandising, and product leadership on collection reviews and sign-off, while managing and developing a high-performing design team.
Senior Solutions Design Manager
🇬🇧 Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Ea First 🇬🇧 Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Lead the UK solutions design function and its team, owning end-to-end logistics solution design from customer engagement through sign-off and mobilisation. Develop operationally robust and commercially competitive proposals, guide complex bids, and improve design methods while evaluating emerging technologies.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
White Horse Employment 🇬🇧 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Own bespoke vehicle and coachbuilding projects from customer brief and design through manufacture, testing, quality checks, and final handover, managing schedules, budgets, specifications, and customer communication. Produce CAD designs and quotes, coordinate materials and workshop resources, maintain project and ISO 9001 documentation, and support inspections, certifications, and warranty work.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Linesight 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Manage design package delivery, coordinating project partners and leading the design team to meet scope, schedule, resource, and quality requirements. Maintain reporting, change authorization, and design documentation, while reviewing packages to identify improvements and share lessons learned.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Fortem Solutions 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design across bidding, pre-construction, and construction stages for large-scale social housing retrofit and capital works projects, ensuring compliance, collaboration, and delivery of coordinated design information. Manage design teams, consultants, surveys, budgets, design changes, client reviews, and sustainability requirements, while identifying opportunities for decarbonisation and design efficiency.
Senior HV Electrical Design Manager - Substations & OHL
🇬🇧 New Waltham, North East Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Laing O'rourke 🇬🇧 New Waltham, North East Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead design development for the Grimsby West 400kV substation, managing technical interfaces and design risks while guiding design decisions through pricing, early contractor involvement, and construction. Coordinate with National Grid, WSP, internal specialists, designers, suppliers, and project stakeholders to improve buildability, safety, quality, and programme performance.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Avoca, County Wicklow, Ireland
Icds Group 🇮🇪 Avoca, County Wicklow, Ireland
Lead and coordinate the design process from pre-construction through project delivery, managing architects, engineers, consultants, and subcontractors. Review design information and progress, resolve coordination issues, ensure compliance and buildability, and collaborate with construction, project management, commercial, and procurement teams.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Unfold Talent 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design management from tender and pre-construction through project completion, coordinating consultants, subcontractors, clients, and project teams. Review and coordinate design information for buildability, compliance, cost, and programme, while managing changes, risks, bids, and design close-out.
Creative Design Manager - Prestige Visual Merchandising & Store Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Coty 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design and develop creative, technically accurate visual merchandising and retail environments for Coty's prestige beauty brands, translating global brand direction into locally relevant, buildable solutions. Produce concepts, 3D visuals, technical drawings, and supplier-ready documentation, while coordinating with internal teams and suppliers to protect brand standards and ensure quality, feasibility, and commercial effectiveness.
Design Manager / Architectural Lead
🇺🇸 Gary, Indiana, United States of America
Ernest Gordon Recruitment 🇺🇸 Gary, Indiana, United States of America
Develop and manage Revit BIM models and coordinate digital workflows with multidisciplinary teams on major construction projects. Improve project delivery through digital fabrication alignment, clash detection, model validation, and continuous innovation.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Bridgestone Americas 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
The Design Manager is responsible for overseeing the architectural due diligence, design process, and jurisdictional approvals for retail store projects. They manage internal and external stakeholders, ensure budget and schedule integrity, and negotiate construction contracts.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Linesight 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will lead design teams to ensure project delivery meets scope, quality, and timeline requirements. They are responsible for managing design packages, overseeing change registers, and fostering strong relationships with project partners and clients.
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.